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At Risk: Your Voice in Fisheries Management

Posted by emily | Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 3:48pm

In 1970 - the same year that saw the birth of Earth Day - a simple but comprehensive Act was signed into law that would forever alter the federal regulatory process. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) established a national policy to protect the environment, calling for government agencies to consider environmental impacts in all decisions that it made.

Categories: Overfishing | Keywords: earth day, fisheries management, magnuson-stevens, NEPA, NMFS, public comment, wavemakers
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