Navigating U.S. Fishery Management Into the 21st Century (Thalassorama‪)‬

Introduction In 1969, the Stratton Commission recommended the creation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and laid the groundwork for the 1976 Fishery Conservation and Management Act (FCMA). Thirty-four years later, U.S. ocean policy is again subject to a systematic, broad-scale assessment. In 2003, the Pew Oceans Commission (POC) released its review of the status of living marine resources, and in 2004 the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (USCOP) released its preliminary report assessing both living and nonliving marine resources and a full array of ocean and coastal uses.