Links
The following links provide additional information on marine protected resources. Please note that reference to a non-governmental organization in the list below is indicated with this icon
and does not imply that the Office of Protected Resources endorses their products and/or policies. NOAA Fisheries follows this linking policy.
- Federal Government Links
- States and U.S. Territories Links
- Marine Fishery Commissions
- Environmental Organizations and Information
- Marine and Anadromous Fish Related Links
- Marine Mammal Related Links
- Marine Turtle Related Links
Federal Government Links
- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
- Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Fishery Management Councils
- Forest Service in USDA
- GPO Access - Federal Register and other government publications online
- International Affairs in NOAA Fisheries
- Marine Mammal Commission
- NASA Global Change Master Directory
- NOAA's National Ocean Service
- NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Regional Protected Resources Divisions/Branches in NOAA Fisheries
- Alaska Fisheries Science Center
- Alaska Regional Office
- Northeast Fisheries Science Center
- Northeast Regional Office
- Northwest Fisheries Science Center
- Northwest Regional Office
- Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
- Pacific Islands Regional Office
- Southeast Fisheries Science Center
- Southeast Regional Office
- Southwest Fisheries Science Center
- Southwest Regional Office
- Science.gov
- THOMAS - Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
States & U.S. Territories Links
- Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

- Alaska Department of Fish and Game

- American Samoa Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources
- California Department of Fish and Game

- Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Division of Fish and Wildlife

- Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

- Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control

- Florida Department of Environmental Protection

- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission

- Georgia Department of Natural Resources

- Guam Environmental Protection Agency

- Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources

- Idaho Department of Fish and Game

- Louisiana Department of Natural Resources

- Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries

- Maine Department of Environmental Protection

- Maryland Department of Natural Resources

- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

- Mississippi Department of Marine Resources

- New Hampshire Fish and Game Department

- New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

- North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources

- Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

- Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

- Puerto Rico Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (Department of Natural Resources and Environment)
(en español) - Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

- U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Planning and Natural Resources

- Virginia Department of Environmental Quality

- Washington Department of Fish and Game

Marine Fishery Commissions
- Atlantic States Fisheries Commission

- Gulf States Fisheries Commission

- Pacific States Fisheries Commission

Environmental Organizations and Information
- Atlantic Coastal Zone Information Steering Committee

- Defenders of Wildlife

- Earthwatch

- Federal Wildlife Laws

- Humane Society of the United States

- International Fund for Animal Welfare

- Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

- Mote Marine Laboratory

- National Wildlife Federation

- Natural Resources Defense Council

- Sierra Club

- Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

- Watchable Wildlife, Inc.

- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

- World Conservation Monitoring Centre

- World Wildlife Fund International
Anadromous and Marine Fish Related Links
- Alaska Salmon Fisheries Information from Our Living Oceans Report (1999) [pdf]
- American Elasmobranch Society

- American Fisheries Society

- Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science

- Columbia Basin Research, University of Washington

- Conservation Biology Division in NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Fisheries Science Center
- Elasmobranch Information

- Fish Ecology Division in NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Fisheries Science Center
- Fish FAQs from NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Fisheries Science Center
- Maine Atlantic Salmon Commission

- Pacific Salmon Fisheries Information from Our Living Oceans Report (1999) [pdf]
- Resource Enhancement and Utilization Technologies from NOAA Fisheries' Northwest Fisheries Science Center
- StreamNet
- Pacific Northwest fisheries and aquatic data
Marine Mammal Related Links
- Alliance of Marine Mammal Parks and Aquariums

- American Cetacean Society

- American Society of Mammologists

- American Zoo and Aquarium Association

- Center for Coastal Studies

- Cetacean Society International

- CSI's "Whales Alive" newsletter

- International Marine Mammal Project

- International Marine Animal Trainers Association

- Marine Mammal Center

- Marine Mammal Commission
- National Marine Mammal Laboratory Education
- North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium

- Ocean Alliance

- Save the Manatee Club

- Seal Conservation Society

- Society of Marine Mammalogy

- Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

- WhaleNet

Marine Turtle Related Links
- Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research & Sea Turtle Online Bibliography

- Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge
- Caribbean Conservation Corporation/Sea Turtle Survival League

- Convention on Migratory Species
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Marine Turtle Program

- Florida Marine Research Institute

- Georgia Department of Natural Resources

- HEART (Help Endangered Animals - Ridley Turtles)

- Indian Ocean - South-East Asian Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding (IOSEA)
- Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles

- Memorandum of Agreement on the Turtle Islands Heritage Protected Area

- Memorandum of Understanding on ASEAN Sea Turtle Conservation and Protection

- Sea Turtle Restoration Project

- Sea Turtle Stranding and Salvage Network (STSSN)
- SeaTurtle.org

- South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

- Specially Protected Areas and Wildlife (SPAW) Protocol of the Cartagena Convention

- Turtle Trax

- U.S. Department of State: Oceans, Fisheries and Marine Conservation
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sea Turtle Information
- Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST)

- WiLDCOAST

- IUCN