NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program Southeast Fisheries Science Center activities and accomplishments : 2007-2010

"In 2007, an external program review recommended the CRCP refine its geographic and thematic foci, and shift resource allocations to local, placed based conservation and management, among other recommendations. A new CRCP program manager, Kacky Andrews was welcomed in 2007 and instituted a well-defined strategy for addressing the recommendations from the program review and for the future of the program (see Figure 1). The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the main driver for fisheries management in the US, was reauthorized in 2007"--Page 2. 2012 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center) CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System) Library Public Domain 1860