U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Federal & State Resources

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is a bureau within the Department of the Interior. Our mission is to work with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

Here are a few of the ways we try to meet our mission:

• Enforce federal wildlife laws,
• Protect endangered species,
• Manage migratory birds,
• Restore nationally significant fisheries,
• Conserve and restore wildlife habitat such as wetlands,
• Help foreign governments with their international conservation efforts, and
• Distribute hundreds of millions of dollars through our Wildlife Sport Fish and Restoration program, from excise taxes on fishing and hunting equipment to State fish and wildlife agencies.

They manage the 150 million-acre National Wildlife Refuge System of more than 551 National Wildlife Refuges and thousands of small wetlands and other special management areas. Under the Fisheries program we also operate 70 National Fish Hatcheries, 65 fishery resource offices and 86 ecological services field stations.

Original working URL: https://www.fws.gov/