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The Domestic
Fisheries Division (F/SF3) is responsible for reviewing and
coordinating the review of fishery management actions through
NOAA, the Department of Commerce, Office of Management and
Budget, and the Office of the Federal Register.
Domestic
fisheries are managed on a regional basis. NMFS is primarily
concerned with management in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ)
(3-200 nautical miles offshore), while coordinating
management with other bodies, such as the states and interstate
and tribal commissions. Fisheries in the EEZ are managed by
Regional Fishery Management Councils and NMFS through Fishery
Management Plans.
 NOAA
Fisheries has completed a preliminary
study of the National Standard 1 (NS1) Guidelines and
developed (1)
draft codified text for NS1 and (2)
a preliminary draft environmental assessment (EA). NOAA
Fisheries is informally inviting comments on these draft documents
through August 31, 2004. Sometime
after that date, NOAA Fisheries anticipates issuing a proposed
rule in the Federal Register. Please send us any comments that
you have on the draft codified text and the preliminary draft
EA to: nationalstandard1@noaa.gov.
The contact person is Mark Millikin at 301-713-2341.
Forum
on Public Access to Federal Rulemaking Through the Internet;
Public Meetings, Request for Comments. Contact
Davis Hays at 301-713-2341
The resources are divided into groups by their location.
Alaska
Fisheries [Northern
Pacific FMC] (including Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and
Gulf of Alaska): Pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific Halibut, King
and Tanner Crab, Alaska Scallops and Alaska salmon
Northwest, Southwest,
and Western Pacific Fisheries: [Pacific
FMC, Western Pacific
FMC] Lobster, Pelagics (tuna, swordfish, marlin), Bottomfish
and Seamount Groundfish, Anchovy off California, Precious Corals
off Hawaii and Western Pacific Islands, Salmon and Pacific Groundfish
off Washington, Oregon, and California.
Southeast Fisheries:
All Fisheries/Species in Atlantic Ocean off southeast states,
Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin
Islands). South Atlantic [ South
Atlantic FMC]: snapper-grouper, red drum, shrimp, coral,
coral reefs, and live/hard bottom habitats, golden crab. Gulf
of Mexico [Gulf
of Mexico FMC]: Spiny lobster, Coastal Migratory Pelagics,
coral and coral reefs, red drum, stone crab, shrimp, reef fish.
Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands [ Caribbean
FMC]: spiny lobster, shallow water reeffish, corals and
reef associated invertebrates, queen conch
Northeast
Fisheries: [New England
FMC; Mid-Atlantic
FMC] Sea Scallops, Summer Flounder, Cod, Haddock, Yellowtail
Flounder and other Groundfish, Surf Clams, Ocean Quahogs, Squid,
Atlantic Mackerel, Butterfish, Monkfish, Herring, Bluefish,
Black Sea Bass, Scup, Dogfish, Tilefish, Skates, and Northern
Shrimp
 Fishery
Management Plans (FMP)
National
Plan of Action on the Reduction of Seabird Bycatch in Longline
Fisheries
Other
Links:
Operational
Guidelines - This document is NOAA's "Operational Guidelines
for the Fishery Management Plan Process", originally issued
in September 1979, and last revised in 1997.
National
Environmental Policy Act - An act to establish a national
policy for the establishment of a Council on Environmental Quality,
as well as other purposes.
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Links for Species
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FISHBASE
- an website that contains a database encyclopedia on fish
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