What we monitor.

Official daily journal of the US government. We ingest every Notice, Proposed Rule, and Rule from NOAA Fisheries (NMFS) and US Fish & Wildlife Service related to marine fisheries.

Operational fishery bulletins issued by NOAA Fisheries regional offices announcing quota updates, season openings, area closures, and emergency actions.

Technical memoranda, stock assessments, and policy papers issued by NOAA Fisheries.

NOAA aquaculture program documents — siting determinations, environmental reviews, regulatory actions.

NOAA Fisheries consumer-facing sustainability profiles for US-managed species.

Federal eRulemaking portal. We ingest public comments on NOAA Fisheries rulemakings and hearings.

Title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations — current regulations governing US wildlife and fisheries.

Bills, resolutions, and committee actions tracking fisheries-related legislation in Congress.

EPA Assessment, Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation System. Per-state water-quality assessment records (impaired waters, attainment, designated uses).

NOAA's open-access repository of agency publications — technical memoranda, reports, environmental assessments, ecosystem plans, and program documents across all NOAA lines.

Curated set of foundational aquaculture policy documents (NOAA AOA program pages, NOAA Fisheries aquaculture overviews, the federal-policy canon).

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Environmental Conservation Online System: ESA listing status, species profiles, and recovery materials for the diadromous + aquatic species that overlap NMFS fisheries jurisdiction (sturgeons, Atlantic salmon, smalltooth sawfish, manatee, sea turtles, bull trout). The USFWS half of the ESA §7 consultation picture — complements NMFS-BiOps (#288). Pulled from the ECOS pullreports API, scoped to a curated overlap-species list.

Federal fishing-permit registry for the Greater Atlantic region (NE + Mid-Atlantic): which vessels hold which permits, by year. Public annual CSV. The demand-side companion to the vessel registry — joins to fleet_vessels by vessel name + hull id. Owner PII (phone/address) is not stored.

Federal fishing-permit data for the Southeast region (Carolinas–Florida–Gulf), per-fishery. Source files moved after a NOAA restructure; pending URL rediscovery (see nmfs-permits-source-discovery.js).

Atlantic HMS permit holders (tuna/shark/swordfish/billfish). Source moved; pending rediscovery.

One of eight Regional Fishery Management Councils. Manages federal fisheries from NC to FL Keys.

Manages federal fisheries from NY to NC.

Manages federal fisheries off New England.

Manages federal fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico.

Manages federal fisheries off WA, OR, CA.

Manages federal fisheries off Alaska — among the most valuable fisheries in the world.

Manages federal fisheries around Hawaii and US Pacific island territories.

Manages federal fisheries off Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

Coordinating body across NEFMC + MAFMC + ASMFC + state agencies for Northeast fisheries.

Coordinating body for all eight Regional Fishery Management Councils.

Interstate compact managing nearshore Atlantic fisheries across 15 states from ME to FL.

Interstate compact for Gulf of Mexico fisheries coordination.

Interstate compact for Pacific coast fisheries coordination.

PSMFC Recreational Fisheries Information Network: the West-Coast recreational catch+effort repository (WA/OR/CA, since 1992) — the rec analogue MRIP does NOT cover for the Pacific. Served via an Oracle APEX report dashboard (no static bulk file); ingest is Playwright-driven (mrip is the Atlantic/Gulf/HI rec source).

PSMFC Pacific Fisheries Information Network: West-Coast COMMERCIAL landings at finer grain (gear, trip, biological samples) than FOSS. FOSS already provides Pacific commercial at annual species×state (19k rows), so PacFIN is depth-not-coverage; behind the same APEX dashboard, low priority.

Treaty organization managing tuna and tuna-like species across the Atlantic Ocean.

Manages tuna and billfish in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Manages highly migratory species in the western and central Pacific.

Manages fisheries in international waters of the northwest Atlantic.

Manages tuna and tuna-like species across the Indian Ocean.

Manages fisheries in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

US-Canada commission managing Pacific halibut.

Treaty organization managing Pacific salmon on the high seas.

US-Canada commission managing Pacific salmon under the Pacific Salmon Treaty.

Councils' OWN published research priorities — ground-truth science-gap signal. Tier 1 covers PFMC (research-pfmc.psmfc.org, ~357 priorities) and NPFMC (research.psmfc.org, ~162). Each priority tracks council priority, SSC priority, research status, focus, area; history table captures status drift over time. Live + Wayback backfill.

Southeast Data, Assessment, and Review — the cooperative stock-assessment process for SAFMC, GMFMC, and CFMC fisheries. Full assessment reports, working papers, and review documents.

Open scholarly database. We ingest fisheries-relevant peer-reviewed papers, conference proceedings, and preprints.

Stock assessments and research outputs from NOAA Fisheries science centers (NEFSC, SEFSC, PIFSC, SWFSC, NWFSC, AFSC).

Foundational documents for the federal research-fleet picture — GAO reports, DOC OIG audits, UNOLS Fleet Improvement Plans. Reference layer for the Vessels of Opportunity module.

PLANNED (ingester greenfield 2026-07-07). Public Library of Science open-access journals — fisheries-heavy (marine ecology, stock assessment, aquaculture) esp. PLOS ONE + PLOS Climate. Full-text JATS XML via allofplos bulk corpus / PLOS Search API (api.plos.org).

Public voyage schedule for the US Academic Research Fleet, ingested from the Marine Facilities Planner (MFP) — the live successor to the legacy UNOLS STRS system. One row per cruise leg: vessel, dates, cruise ID, funding, operating window. Powers the FIP vessels-of-opportunity join.

CRS reports on fisheries policy, briefings to Congress.

GAO audits and oversight reports on US fisheries management.

Inspector General audits of the Department of Commerce and NOAA fisheries programs.

Federal advisory committee reports to the Secretary of Commerce on fisheries policy.

EPA Enforcement and Compliance History Online — water/air permits, violations, enforcement actions for fisheries-adjacent facilities.

Department of Labor enforcement actions in fisheries-sector employment.

Foreign Labor Application Gateway H-2B visa applications for seafood processing.

Workplace safety inspections of seafood processors and commercial fishing operations.

NOAA Fisheries enforcement actions, citations, settlements.

Federal court dockets, opinions, and filings in fisheries-related litigation.

Department of Justice press releases on fisheries-related prosecutions and settlements.

Joint commission of four Columbia Basin tribes — Yakama, Warm Springs, Umatilla, Nez Perce — co-managing Columbia River fisheries.

Coordinating body for 20 treaty Indian tribes co-managing Washington state fisheries under US v. Washington (1974).

Tribal fisheries advisory association for the Yukon River.

Suquamish Tribe shellfishprogram AGOL tenant. 5 tribal-published layers totalling 833 rows.

Tribal_U_and_A_WFL1 FeatureServer. 4 layers (28 polygons) for Upper Skagit / Tulalip / Swinomish / Suquamish. Boldt-decision treaty fishing territories.

Tulalip Tribes crab closure area FeatureServer. 1 polygon.

International seafood certification body. Fishery assessments and chain-of-custody audits.

Sustainability recommendations for US seafood.

Alaska CFEC commercial fishing permit + vessel registry. No confirmed public CSV/API yet — pending CFEC export request or Playwright. Highest-value state (~5-10k permits/yr).

Louisiana LDWF commercial license data via Socrata OpenData. Dataset not located in keyword scan — pending full catalog discovery.

Texas TPWD commercial fishing license data via Socrata OpenData. Dataset not located in keyword scan — pending full catalog discovery.

Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Individual Lease FeatureServer. ~118 individual shellfish lease parcels with waterbody, county, acreage, lease type, and status.

Maine Department of Marine Resources aquaculture leases — both standard (203) and Limited Purpose Aquaculture (626) leases. Includes lessee identity, primary species, expiration date, decision document URL.

Maryland Department of Natural Resources active shellfish/oyster lease registry. 469 active leases with lessee name, waterbody, county, acres, execution/termination dates.

North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries shellfish lease registry. 838 active leases.

Virginia Department of Health shellfish growing area boundaries and water classifications. 1244 polygons.

Connecticut Bureau of Aquaculture shellfish bed registry. 2354 polygons.

Washington Department of Natural Resources aquatic land leases (ground + improvement). 39 leases.

Washington Department of Health commercial shellfish growing area classifications. 509 polygons.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries oyster lease registry (via LA DOH ArcGIS). 7855 active oyster leases.

Alabama Department of Public Health approved aquaculture operations. 17 operations.

Mississippi Department of Marine Resources oyster lease registry (3 layers). 66 polygons combined.

Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resources Division active shellfish leases. 47 leases.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife commercial shellfish growing areas. 31 polygons.

Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources Act 93 federal lease registry. 96 polygons.

New York DEC Statewide Shellfish FeatureServer (NYSDOS_GIS). 8 layers totalling 2771 rows: Aquaculture Lease Sites (92), Closures (377), Harvest Zones (66), SGAs (78), Sample Stations (1359), Inactive Stations (790), Biotoxin (6), Conditional (3).

Alaska Department of Natural Resources aquatic farm leases via OpenData FeatureServer. 220 features.

Delaware FirstMap statewide shellfish aquaculture areas. 343 polygons with LESSEENAME.

New Hampshire GRANIT aquaculture sites registry (2015 vintage). 26 sites.

Rhode Island RIDEM shellfishing restriction areas. 118 polygons.

Oregon Coastal Management Program commercial shellfish plats. 94 plats.

South Carolina DNR DES Shellfish 2024 survey. 664 polygons.

New Jersey DEP Features/Environmental_admin MapServer. 5 shellfish layers totalling 2922 rows.

Massachusetts DMF + CZM. 2651 rows: Aquaculture_Sites (94), Suitability (2557), DSGA.

Texas Parks & Wildlife (Private Oyster Leases 2018, 43) + Texas DSHS (Shellfish Harvest Areas 2024-25, 289). 332 rows.

Michigan Dept of Agriculture & Rural Development aquaculture testing veterinarian registry. 9 contacts.