Our living oceans: report on the status of U.S. living marine resources, 6th edition

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is dedicated to the stewardship of living marine resources (LMR’s). This is accomplished through science-based conservation and management, and the promotion of healthy ecosystems. As a steward, NMFS has an obligation to conserve, protect, and manage these resources in a way that ensures their continuation as functioning components of healthy marine ecosystems, affords economic opportunities, and enhances the quality of life for the American public. In addition to its responsibilities within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), NMFS plays a supportive and advisory role in the management of LMR’s in the coastal areas under state jurisdiction and provides scientific and policy leadership in the international arena. NMFS also implements international measures for the conservation and management of LMR’s, as appropriate.NMFS receives its stewardship responsibilities under a number of Federal laws. These include the Nation’s primary fisheries law, the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act. This law was first passed in 1976, later reauthorized as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act in 1996, and reauthorized again on 12 January 2007 as the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSRA). The MSRA mandates strong action to conserve and manage fishery resources and requires NMFS to end overfishing by 2010 in all U.S. commercial and recreational fisheries, rebuild all overfished stocks, and conserve essential fish habitat.

San José charter on the rights of older persons in Latin America and the Caribbean

Spanish , french and portuguese versions available

International Conference on the Physics of X-Ray Spectra program and extended abstracts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings of the Conference on the Challenge of Load Management : a convergence of diverse interests, June 11-12, 1975 /

Cover title: Load management

Report on the status of international copyright protection and on the Brussels meeting of the Committee of experts.

Mode of access: Internet.

Transcript: Regional Public Meetings on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and an appendix, Conference on the Management of Non-Nuclear Hazardous Wastes, February 23, 1977, New York City, ... proceedings... /

Mode of access: Internet.

U.S. foreign policy and the law of the sea : hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, June 17, August 12, and September 16, 1982.

Mode of access: Internet.

International law documents. Conference on the limitation of armament. With notes and index. 1921.

"The discussions upon international law at the Naval War College have been conducted by George Grafton Wilson, LL. D., professor of international law in Harvard university, and one of the legal advisers at the Conference on limitation of armamemt." -Pref., p. iii.

Conference on the limitation of armament.

Mode of access: Internet.

Annual report on the status of the equal employment opportunity program.

Title from cover.

"Women make History" book party sponsored by NYC Commission on the Status of Women. Left, Kay Wigert, the chairperson of C.S.W. speaking to NET news reporter Charlayne Hunter-Gault

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Maureen Reagan speaks at post-nairobi International Women's Year meeting sponsored by Commission on the Status of Women

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Survey on the status of Computational Design research and practice

This report presents the results from a survey of current practice in the use of design optimization conducted amongst UK companies. The survey was completed by the Design Optimization Group in the Department of Engineering at Cambridge University. The general aims of this research were to understand the current status of design optimization research and practice and to identify ways in which the use of design optimization methods and tools could be improved.

Survey of the shrimp stocks of the Sierra Leone inshore shelf : a summary report outlining objectives, observations and recommendations on the status of the Sierra Leone shrimp fishery

This report gives the species and catch-rates per hour of some commercial shrimp species caught in the course of a short survey of inshore shelf fishing grounds. Species seen in significant quantities were: Parapenneopsis atlantica, Parapenaeus longirostris, Penaeus kerathurus and Penaeus duorarum notialis