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Policy News: December 20, 2021

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Senate committee holds hearing for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. NOAA releases the annual Arctic Report Card. A draft of IPBES’ thematic assessment of invasive alien species and their control is open for review. This bill allows fishermen to exchange lionfish tails for fishing tags for other species.

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The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.

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Allyson Purcell is the director of West Coast hatcheries for NOAA, which oversees endangered salmon recovery, sets regulations for hatcheries and funds roughly a third of all Columbia River hatchery production. Similar research reached the federal Department of Fisheries, a precursor to what is now NOAA Fisheries, in 1929.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

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Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed concerns over the total price tag of the budget reconciliation bill. . NOAA also received $20 for climate change education activities. Executive Branch.

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