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  skos:definition """The Office of Science and Technology advocates and ensures a
sound scientific basis for NMFS' science programs and resource
conservation and management decisions. It has oversight of NMFS'
scientific research and technology development activities
including biology, ecology, economic and social sciences,
oceanography, collection and management of scientific
information, engineering, and other disciplines used to fulfill
NMFS' conservation and management mission for living marine
resources.

The Office maintains the integrity of the NMFS' scientific
enterprise and strives to maintain and improve the quality and
credibility of NMFS' science. It is the primary interface
between NMFS' scientific activity and NOAA, other agencies, and
international organizations. The Office serves as the focal
point within NMFS for the development and evaluation of domestic
and international science and technology strategies and
policies, including international science agreements. The Office
evaluates NMFS' performance of the agency's conservation and
management mission from a scientific perspective.

The Office is responsible for, among other things:

-Ensuring the quality and credibility of NMFS' fisheries science
and NMFS' scientific staff

-Development and implementation of NMFS' Long-range Science Strategy;
Coordinating NMFS' domestic science and research programs and activities

-Director of the Office serves as the NMFS Senior Scientist

-Providing scientific analysis and advice for operational,
resource conservation and management decisions, as appropriate,
from a science perspective

-Operation of the National Fisheries Statistics program

-Leadership and management for activities related to the NMFS'
Science Board

-Coordination of NMFS' mission needs and requirements for
research vessels and aircraft

-Monitoring and improving the agency's understanding of global
fisheries to contribute to the development and sound management
of U.S. fisheries

-Advancing U.S. strategic goals for fisheries by the transfer of
appropriate fisheries science and technology to other countries
for the purpose of effectively managing and conserving global
living marine resources; and, Management of NMFS' Scientific
Publications Unit.

Website: "http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st/"

[Summary provided by NOAA]"""@en ;
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