NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan 2019-2022

The NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan 2019-2022 is a national sectoral plan of the United States of America. Its main objectives are to amplify the economic value of commercial and recreational fisheries while ensuring their sustainability, to conserve and recover protected species while supporting responsible fishing and resource development, and to improve organizational excellence and regulatory efficiency.
The Plan aims to make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable. To this end, it is planning to stabilize highest priority protected species; review and streamline permitting and authorization processes for energy development and national defense, while maximizing conservation outcomes; minimize bycatch and entanglement of protected species while supporting fisheries; and address the challenge of balancing water management for protected species with other uses.
To enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, the Plan seeks to manage stocks for optimum yield; increase U.S. marine aquaculture production; adequately assess all prioritized stocks and maintain information for currently assessed stocks; modernize fisher y information collection, management, and dissemination systems, and enhance cooperative data collection and sharing; combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and seafood fraud, and advance fair trade; and increase consumer confidence in the quality and safety of U.S. seafood.