Fish Habitat: Essential Fish Habitat and Rehabilitation

Preface

doi: https://doi.org/10.47886/9781888569124.fmatter

Fish habitat management and conservation received more attention in 1998 from scientists and policy makers than possibly ever before, in large part due to the essential fish habitat (EFH) measures included in the 1996 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. It is a tribute to the foresight of my advisors from the American Fisheries Society (AFS) and the National Sea Grant College Program that they chose fish habitat and EFH as the theme of the first-ever AFS–Sea Grant Internship.