Friday, April 11, 2025

Last days for NMFS?

CNN reports the Trump administration's proposed budget "severely defunds" key offices of NOAA including the National Marine Fisheries Service and "transfers most of the fisheries service functions to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which sits under the Interior Department."

NMFS currently is part of the Commerce Department.

2 comments:

Deckboss said...

Here's another story from NPR:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361366/major-budget-cuts-proposed-for-the-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration

Anonymous said...

Back to where it belongs, from 1871, and after Richard Nixon moved it to Commerce and renamed it NMFS in 1970.

https://www.fws.gov/history-of-fws