NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service today announced that it is seeking comments by Monday, March 8 on the agency’s initiation of a 5-year review for staghorn, elkhorn, pillar, rough cactus, lobed star, mountainous star, and boulder star coral The review will assess the best scientific and commercial data available to determine whether any of the species should be [...]
Archive | January, 2021
NOAA Announces Ocean Science Partnership
NOAA today announced a new partnership with The Ocean Foundation to cooperate on international and U.S. scientific efforts to further ocean research, conservation, and knowledge. An MOU signed in December identified priority areas for cooperation including understanding climate change and ocean acidification and implications for the ocean and coasts, improving coastal resilience and strengthening capacity for climate [...]
White House Announces Implementation Plan for National Mapping Strategy
The White House Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Science and Technology Policy today announced the release of an Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for Ocean Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (“National Strategy”). The release of the Implementation Plan — which details steps to fully map the deep waters of the U.S. [...]
New U.S. Law Codifies Ocean Policy Committee, Reauthorizes NOPP and ORAP
Following congressional passage through a veto override, the FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act became law today, among other things codifying the Ocean Policy Committee created in 2018 and reauthorizing the National Oceanographic Partnership Program and Ocean Research Advisory Panel. The legislation charges the Committee with continuing its activities as it existed prior to the NDAA taking [...]
