Publications

The 2007 status review report conducted on a Petition from the Biodiversity Legal Foundation and James R. Chambers to list the Atlantic White Marlin as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)

This document is an economic analysis of the proposed rule, addressing the requirements of Presidential Executive Order 12866 (E.O. 12866), which requires a cost and benefit analysis of Federal regulatory actions.

Published Date: 2007

Revision of the 1993 conservation plan for northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) to incorporate new information obtained since the original plan was completed.

Analyses of a series of potential changes to the prevailing management of the Pacific halibut charter fishing sector in Area 2C to reduce charter harvests to a level below the Guideline Harvest Level (GHL) in 2008.

The proposed action being addressed in this Regulatory Impact Review (RIR) and Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis (RFAA) is the designation of critical habitat in waters of the North Pacific Ocean for the northern right whale...

This 5-year review is a periodic analysis of Johnson's seagrass to ensure that the listing classification as threatened or endangered on the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants is accurate.

On September 1, 2007, the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) completed the twenty-ninth annual longline survey of Alaska sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) resources of the upper continental slope (Figure 1). This survey was designed to continue the time series (1979-94) of the Gulf of Alaska portion of the Japan-U.S. cooperative longline survey that was discontinued after 1994. The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has surveyed the Gulf of Alaska annually since 1987, the eastern Aleutian Islands biennially since 1996, and the eastern Bering Sea biennially since 1997. The Gulf of Alaska and eastern Bering Sea were sampled in 2007.

This Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis (FRFA) evaluates the adverse economic impacts on regulated small entities of regulatory amendments to 50 CFR part 679 and part 680 to revise and reorganize regulations associated with logbooks, forms, and electronic reporting systems. Several definitions are changed. This action changes certain crab provisions, including fee calculations. The FRFA addresses the statutory requirements of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) of 1980, as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (5 U.S.C. 601-612).

This Environmental Assessment/Regulatory Impact Review/Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis analyzes the impacts of revisions to current seabird avoidance measures in the hook-and-line fisheries off Alaska.