Tag: NOAA Fisheries

Port of Dutch Harbor and the village of Unalaska in the Aleutian Chain on the edge of the southeastern Bering Sea. Dutch Harbor the largest fishing port by volume in the U.S. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Paul Hillman.

Developing Alternative Fisheries Management Scenarios to Respond to Climate Change

4/18/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. Seafood is a vitally important source of protein. Worldwide, more than 3 billion people rely on seafood as a significant part of their diets. The amount that we can sustainably fish and farm is based on historical catches and trends that have been monitored for decades. We need to understand… SEE MORE

Where the Leatherbacks Roam

4/1/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. Leatherback sea turtles are known to travel thousands of miles to move from warm, tropical and subtropical nesting areas to cooler, prey-rich feeding grounds. These locations—and the journey between them—are critical for supporting this species’ survival. New research has confirmed important foraging grounds along the Atlantic migration corridor for these aquatic… SEE MORE

Climate Change Affects Different U.S. West Coast Fishing Fleets Unequally

3/20/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. Climate change is hitting fishermen hard. But it's not hitting all those who depend on the sea for their livelihood the same way. A new NOAA Fisheries study examined how climate change might affect commercial fishing fleets on the U.S. West Coast. The findings were published recently in the journal PLoS… SEE MORE

North Atlantic right whale Pediddle (#1012) and calf. This species was hunted nearly to extinction by commercial whalers in the 1800s, and continues to face threats from vessel strikes and entanglement in fishing gear. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Whales and Carbon Sequestration: Can Whales Store Carbon?

3/18/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. The ocean captures about 31 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions, removing carbon from the atmosphere that would otherwise continue to trap heat and increase temperatures. Blue carbon, or carbon captured by ocean ecosystems includes: Carbon absorbed by aquatic plants, algae, and phytoplankton Carbon stored in the bodies of living animals… SEE MORE

Mother and calf humpback whales near Maui, Hawaii. Humpback whales in the Pacific Ocean swim approximately 3,000 miles from Alaska to Hawaii to spend the winter in the warmer tropical waters. Credit: Jason Moore (NOAA permit #18786)

Whale Week Highlights: A Message from Kim Damon-Randall, Director of NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources

Coastal News

2/21/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. Welcome to Whale Week 2024! Whales share many similarities to humans. Like us, they have social interactions, care for their young, and several species can sing. They can live for more than 100 years. Dive in with us to explore the wonders of more than 30 whale species in… SEE MORE

Endangered species listing sought for horseshoe crabs

2/15/2024 - By nationalfisherman.com. A petition filed Feb. 12 with NOAA Fisheries seeks federal Endangered Species Act protection for the American horseshoe crab, a long-ubiquitous species whose populations have “crashed in recent decades because of overharvesting and habitat loss,” according to the Center for Biological Diversity. The center and 22 other environmental… SEE MORE

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

Unsettled Pacific Ocean Offers Few Clear Indicators for Salmon Success in 2024

1/26/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov Want to learn how the Pacific Ocean is likely to change and affect salmon survival in the coming year? Stay tuned, scientists say. The ocean indicators that NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center researchers track off Newport, on the Central Oregon Coast, are decidedly mixed for the coming year. El Niño… SEE MORE

NOAA Fisheries’ white abalone recovery team–which includes partner organizations–had been planning this research trip for years. They were overjoyed at the discovery of a juvenile white abalone. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Rare Juvenile White Abalone Spotted Off California Raises Hope for Endangered Shellfish

11/30/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. During a recent research cruise off the southern coast of California, NOAA Fisheries divers and partners found a juvenile white abalone. It’s one of only three live juveniles observed in natural subtidal reefs along the California coast during the past 20 years. They once numbered in the millions, but… SEE MORE

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Retrieving the passive acoustic mooring to collect the data recordings. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/ Jonny Reid

Listening to the Sounds of the Gulf of Mexico

10/29/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. The acoustics team recovers and deploys a variety of moored underwater recording instruments to provide information on ocean noise, including sounds from human activities, fish, and marine mammals. Long-term sound recordings in the Gulf of Mexico and oceans around the world have been at the forefront of oceanographic… SEE MORE

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