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Agency to consider listing for lake seals

ANCHORAGE - The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Thursday it will consider listing a population of harbor seals that live in a freshwater Alaska lake as a threatened...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-17/agency-consider-listing-lake-seals
State
NMFS plans workshops on harbor seal protections

...glaciers are harming harbor seals, which use ice floes from the glaciers as nurseries for their pups.The National Marine Fisheries Service will conduct workshops in Juneau and Yakutat on April 22-23, seeking public comment on vessel interaction...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-12/nmfs-plans-workshops-harbor-seal-protec
State
Coast Guard encourages vessel safety exams before 2013 halibut and sablefish fisheries open Saturday

...states.Still, some vessels, including halibut individual fishing quota fishermen, are now required by the National Marine Fisheries Service to have a valid decal prior to carrying a mandatory observer aboard, according to Ken Lawrenson, the Coast...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-03-21/coast-guard-encourages-vessel-safety-ex
Local
Thanks Alaska delegation for listening to the fishing industry

...a restructured observer program that extends observer coverage to Alaska's small boat fleet. With the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) taking over observer deployment, the industry-funded restructured program increases the cost...

http://juneauempire.com/letters/2012-12-24/thanks-alaska-delegation-listening-fi
Letters
Reckless protection

...co-exist well in Alaska.The categorizing of the seals as threatened means developers will have to consult the National Marine Fisheries Service before proceeding with a project, thereby increasing the number of hoops that each developer will need to...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2013-01-04/reckless-protection
Opinion
Bonnet, Hale wed

...New Jersey for undergraduate studies and Rutgers University for graduate school. He is employed with the National Marine Fisheries Service.After the wedding, officiated by Sharon Morgan, the couple spent their honeymoon in Juneau.

http://juneauempire.com/weddings/2013-01-06/bonnet-hale-wed
Weddings
Scientists want new name for mammal-eating orcas

...They turned out instead to be mammal-eaters. Genetic work on transients followed. Wade collaborated with National Marine Fisheries Service geneticist Phillip Morin and 14 other researchers on a 2011 paper that indicated resident and transient killer...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-11-26/scientists-want-new-name-mammal-eating-
State
Fishing groups protest expanded observers program

...delegation seeking assistance.The new North Pacific Groundfish Observer Program was approved Nov. 20 by the National Marine Fisheries Service, an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.Starting Jan. 1, biologist observers...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2012-11-29/fishing-groups-protest-expanded-observe
State
Agency proposes recovery plan for rare North Pacific right whale

ANCHORAGE - The National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed a recovery...intention to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service if the agency didn't...Uhlemann said the National Marine Fisheries Service correctly notes that...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-01-24/agency-proposes-recovery-plan-rare-nort
State
Agency rejects petition to list cold-water corals as endangered

...cold-water corals as endangered or threatened does not contain enough information to make the case.The National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday it had rejected the petition submitted in August by the Center for Biological Diversity...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-02-13/agency-rejects-petition-list-cold-water
State

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