Management
The refuge is a managed as a highly-restricted marine protected area. Management goals include:
- Conserving,
restoring, managing, and protecting native terrestrial habitats that
are representative of remote tropical Pacific islands, primarily for
the benefit of seabirds;
- Conserving,
managing, and protecting native marine communities that are representative
of remote tropical Pacific islands;
- Contributing
to the recovery, protection, and management efforts for all native
species with special consideration for seabirds, migratory shorebirds,
federally listed threatened and endangered species, and species of
management concern; and
- Protecting,
maintaining, enhancing, and preserving the wilderness character of
terrestrial and marine communities.
Rose Atoll suffered
from an oil spill, grounding, and wreck of a Taiwanese longliner in
1993. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's monitoring of injuries led to
support from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund Act to remove the ship
debris and monitor recovery of the atoll. As of 2007, all ship debris
has been removed and the atoll continues to recover based on monitoring
studies since 1994.
