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# Fiscal Year 2015 Annual Report

#### Fiscal Year 2015 **Highlights**

            - ***$10 million**.* That's the amount of money saved per year by eliminating the need to offload cargo from vessels offshore before they enter the port.
            - ***24 hours a day, 7 days a week**.* That's the availability of nowCOAST's map viewer and map services to users and partners.
            - ***50**.* That's the number of species of marine animals that were tagged to provide reliable and accurate biological and physical observation data for the Animal Telemetry Network Data Assembly Center. 
            - ***Two**.* That's the number of places NOAA chose as new Habitat Focus Areas in 2015 to maximize its habitat conservation investments and management efforts to benefit marine resources and coastal communities. These locations include Biscayne Bay, Florida, and Culebra Island, Puerto Rico. 
            - ***$522 million**.* That's the estimated annual economic benefits to the nation expected to be delivered by the new vertical reference system planned for release in 2022. 
            - ***25 percent**.* That's the increase in the number of NOS Twitter followers in FY 2015 compared with the previous year.  The number of Twitter followers grew from 101,807 to 129,146. 
            - ***50 percent**.* That's the reduction in groundings and over $50 million in economic efficiency benefits provided every year by just four PORTS® locations around the U.S.  
            - ***60**.* That's the number of staff members who participated in the "Little Splash" Drill to boost NOS response and recovery capabilities for future all-hazards events. 
            - ***38,000**.* That's the number of square miles stretching from New York to Virginia to be protected from bottom fishing activities by the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, due in large part to NOS models, mapping products, and spatial analyses of deep-sea coral ecosystems there. 
            - ***10,000**.* That's the number of acres of coastal lands that were acquired or designated for long-term protection through the Coastal Zone Management Program this year. 
            - ***Two**.* That's the number of first nominations of places for consideration as potential new national marine sanctuaries.  After an extensive public process, NOAA launched a new, locally driven sanctuary nomination process during which Mallows Bay — Potomac River (Maryland) and Lake Michigan (Wisconsin) met the criteria for consideration by NOAA for national marine sanctuary designation. 

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