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Spring Chinook salmon. (Image credit: Michael Humling, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

U.S. Department of Commerce allocates over $20.6M in fishery disaster funding

2/14/2024 - By noaa.gov. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced today the allocation of $20.6 million to address a fishery resource disaster that occurred in the 2023 Sacramento River Fall Chinook and Klamath River Fall Chinook ocean and inland salmon fisheries. NOAA Fisheries used revenue loss information from the commercial, processor and charter… SEE MORE

NOAA’s Ko Barrett to become Deputy Secretary-General of World Meteorological Organization

2/13/2024 - By noaa.gov. NOAA's senior advisor for climate, Ko Barrett, has been named the Deputy Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and is set to begin her term later this spring. Barrett’s appointment is the latest in a remake of the WMO’s Executive Management team under the new leadership of the… SEE MORE

January 2024: Extensive flooding along Cummings Creek at FM 1291 near the Fayette/Colorado County line, Texas, caused by a widespread heavy rainfall event in parts of Texas and Louisiana. The onslaught of rain occurred from January 22–25, 2024. (Image credit: Ben Madison)

The Nation Just Saw its 10th-Wettest January on Record

2/12/2024 - By noaa.gov. The new year started off unusually wet across the U.S., with extreme rainfall and flooding impacting parts of the southern Plains. The heavy rain also helped boost the month into the top-10 wettest Januarys on record, according to experts and data from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information… SEE MORE

Wendy Kaveney-2004/The Children's Museum of Indianapolis - CC BY-SA 3.0

Efforts to save blue crabs underway in South Carolina

2/11/2024 - By Carli Stewart. South Carolina recorded a record-low number of blue crabs in 2023. However, a current bill in the works could change this going forward. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) reported the lowest number of species in 50 years. However, there has been a steady decline… SEE MORE

How to Love an Oyster

2/9/2024 - By Brendan Borrell. Most people, even those who know a thing or two about oysters and may perhaps enjoy eating them, have no idea that the sweet and buttery bivalves they are slurping down in San Francisco or Vancouver are not the native species of the West Coast but Japanese… SEE MORE

Blacktip shark with a dart tag at the base of its first dorsal fin. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Reliable Shark Taggers Make Citizen Science Program Possible

2/7/2024 - By fisheries.noa.gov. The Cooperative Shark Tagging Program In 1961, John “Jack” Casey began studying the life history of shark species in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. At the time, he worked at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife Laboratory in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The following year,… SEE MORE

This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over Madras, Oregon, on Aug. 21, 2017. Credit: NASA/Aubrey Gemignani

The 2024 Total Eclipse & NASA

2/6/2024 - By science.nasa.gov. On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross the continental United States, providing an exciting and breathtaking opportunity for observation and science. A total solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, completely blocking the face of the Sun. People located in… SEE MORE

More than $42 million newly allocated to U.S. fishery disaster relief

2/5/2024 - By nationalfisherman.com More than $42 million in federal fishery disaster relief is being allocated to help U.S. fishermen, from the hurricane-wracked Louisiana Gulf coast to Alaska’s Yukon River salmon communities. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the disaster aid packages Monday for Alaska, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon and… SEE MORE

Rebuilding in Maine

2/4/2024 - By Paul Molyneaux. Two back-to-back storms devastated the coast of Maine from Jan. 10-13, flooding shoreside infrastructure and tearing away many of the docks that serve the state’s commercial fisheries. Photos of damage from Kittery to Canada filled pages on FaceBook and Instagram. Now that the waves have diminished and the tides… SEE MORE

Why do Lobsters Come in Rare Colors? This Team of UNE Researchers Wants to Find Out

2/3/2024 - By Gillian Graham. At first glance, the lobster moving slowly through the water looks like most others caught in the Gulf of Maine. But when Dr. Markus Frederich pulls it from a tank of seawater at the University of New England, the difference is immediately clear. The lobster, named Currant,… SEE MORE