News for Hawaii Partners, February 2012

Updated February 1st, 2012

Announcements

Open for public comment—Draft Environmental Assessment: Permit Issuance to the National Marine Fisheries Service to Authorize Incidental Take of Seabirds in the Hawaii-based Shallow-set Longline Fishery
Deadline for comments: February 9, 2012. The permit, if issued, would authorize incidental take of migratory birds in the shallow-set longline fishery based in Hawaii. USFWS documents evaluate the environmental consequences of three alternative permit actions in response to the application from NMFS.

National Park Service Pacific Island Network Special Edition: Climate Change
This illustrated 10-page document includes global climate change basics, climate change in the tropical Pacific, climate change clues from monitoring, NPS and regional responses, and taking action.

Endangered short-tailed albatross produces a chick on U.S. soil for second time in history
The recent discovery of the nest and chick on Midway Atoll in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands follows the fledging of the first U.S.-born chick last year at the same site by the same parents.

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Hawaii Wetland Joint Venture Coordinator
J. Rubey Rubey@pcjv.org
808-217-6658

Next Hawaii partner meeting:
February 21, 2012
Waimea, Hawaii Island
Contact Rubey for more information

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