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Summaries of Major Laws Implemented by the National Marine Fisheries Service

Description: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is located within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Department of Commerce. NOAA and NMFS were created by President Nixon's Reorganization Plan No. 4 of July 9, 1970 (84 Stat. 2090). Programs now comprising NMFS had previously been located in the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries within U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) in the Department of the Interior.
Date: March 24, 1995
Creator: Buck, Eugene H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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