How is NOAA Fisheries approaching recovery planning?
Recovery plans need to be scientifically credible and have the support, or “buy-in,” of those who need to contribute to recovery. Recovery plans also need to be consistent with NOAA Fisheries Service legal mandates to provide for sustainable fisheries and to meet our treaty and trust obligations to Native American tribes. NOAA believes that it is critically important to ground the recovery planning process in the many state, regional, tribal, local, and private conservation efforts already underway throughout the region and has established a recovery planning process to maximize local involvement and capitalize on ongoing efforts. To develop recovery plans that meet ESA statutory requirements as well as goals for local involvement, NOAA Fisheries has organized the 27 listed ESUs into seven recovery areas, or “domains”: Puget Sound; Willamette/Lower Columbia; Interior Columbia, which has 3 sub-domains of Mid Columbia, Upper Columbia and Snake; Southern Oregon/Northern California; North-
Recovery plans need to be scientifically credible and have the support, or “buy-in,” of those who need to contribute to recovery. Recovery plans also need to be consistent with NOAA Fisheries legal mandates to provide for sustainable fisheries and to meet our treaty and trust obligations to Native American tribes. NOAA believes that it is critically important to ground the recovery planning process in the many state, regional, tribal, local, and private conservation efforts already underway throughout the region and has established a recovery planning process to maximize local involvement and capitalize on ongoing efforts. To develop recovery plans that meet ESA statutory requirements as well as goals for local involvement, NOAA Fisheries has organized the 28 listed ESUs into eight recovery areas, or “domains”: Puget Sound; Willamette/Lower Columbia; Interior Columbia, which has three sub-domains of Mid Columbia, Upper Columbia and Snake; Oregon Coast; Southern Oregon/Northern Californ
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