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Breakthrough Achieved in ICCAT’s Challenging Negotiations

In a banner year for the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, U.S. leadership led to several breakthrough outcomes, including new management measures for Atlantic tropical tunas and North Atlantic swordfish.
November 20, 2024 - Feature Story ,
International
School of yellowfin tuna swimming underwater. Tuna. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Restoring Pocket Estuaries Key to Puget Sound Chinook Recovery in Washington

With NOAA funds, the Skagit River System Cooperative will restore the Similk Pocket Estuary, which will provide refuge for juvenile Chinook originating from the Skagit River.
November 20, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Artist's concept of the restored Similk Estuary. Credit: Artist Studio, llc. Artist's concept of the restored Similk Estuary. Credit: Artist Studio, llc.

NOAA Fisheries Announces Action Plan to Enhance the U.S. Seafood Import Monitoring Program

After gathering feedback from more than 7,000 stakeholders, NOAA shaped an action plan focused on combating illegal fishing and enhancing seafood traceability.
November 14, 2024 - Feature Story ,
International
Fishermen offloading. Credit: Shutterstock Fishermen offloading. Credit: Shutterstock

Identifying Aquaculture Opportunity Areas in California and the Gulf of Mexico

Two Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statements will be open for public comment from November 22, 2024 through February 20, 2025. Join a public listening session to learn more.
November 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
National
A close up underwater image of Giant kelp. Giant kelp (Credit: Zachary Gold for NOAA.)

$9.2 Million in Inflation Reduction Act Funds Awarded to Academic Partners for Pacific Salmon Recovery Science

Partnerships are key to strengthening NOAA’s science-based approach toward recovering imperiled Pacific salmon populations.
November 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Researchers on a small boat on a river Researches with the Fisheries Collaborative Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz deploy equipment to measure predation rates on juvenile salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Photo: Brendan Lehman

2024 Research for Pacific Protected Species

Inflation Reduction Act funds helped NOAA Fisheries scientists enhance our 2024 data for ice seals in Alaska, Hawaiian monk seals and sea turtles in the Pacific Islands, and cetaceans off the West Coast.
November 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Pacific Islands
West Coast
Marylou Staman conducts green sea turtle surveys at Lalo (French Frigate Shoals). Credit: NOAA Fisheries. Marylou Staman conducts green sea turtle surveys at Lalo in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. More than 90 percent of the Hawaiian green sea turtle population nests at Lalo (French Frigate Shoals). Credit: NOAA Fisheries. Taken under U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Permit #TE-72088A-3 and Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Co-Manager’s Permit.

Direct Marketing: Another Tool to Increase Resiliency of U.S. Seafood

Selling seafood directly to consumers, markets, or restaurants can help strengthen community connections and insulate our domestic seafood supply against disruptions.
November 12, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
West Coast
National
A chalk signboard outside a fish market that says "Thank You for Supporting Local Fishermen" A signboard thanking patrons at Tuna Harbor Dockside Market in San Diego. Credit: Tuna Harbor Dockside Market.

Fifteen Years of Searching for Smalltooth Sawfish

NOAA Fisheries scientists have been studying smalltooth sawfish in South Florida since 2009. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
November 12, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
A female scientist inserts a tag into a sawfish, with white belly up and long, toothed rostrum extended, while two other scientists hold it in the water Annsli Hilton performs surgery on a smalltooth sawfish to insert an acoustic tag to track the animal’s movement. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Reni Poston-Hymel (ESA Permit #22078, Everglades National Park Permit #0007)

New Method Provides Reliable Estimates for Bearded Seals

Collaborative research finds more cost-effective way to sample and estimate abundance of bearded seals.
November 12, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Bearded seal laying on ice on water Bearded Seal. Credit: John Jansen/NOAA Fisheries

Celebrating Veterans Serving in Habitat Conservation

Join us in celebrating Veterans Day and learn more about NOAA's Veterans Corps partnerships employing veterans in the habitat restoration field.
November 08, 2024 - Feature Story ,
National
In the foreground, a person wearing a black hoodie, red life jacket, and red rubber gloves stands on a ship and pulls on a rope. Two additional people are seen in the background, also wearing red life jackets. Former NOAA veteran intern Garret Engelke pulls in a surface trawling net on the Puget Sound with NOAA scientists.