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People stand in a boat behind floating oyster cages.

NOAA Fisheries Regional Aquaculture Coordinator Alicia Bishop and Protected Resources biologist Sadie Wright learn how to load and deploy oyster cages. This style of cage is flipped periodically by hand to reduce biofouling.

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Supporting Alaska’s Aquaculture Industry Through Collaborative Site Visits

Alaska

Three women weigh a squid on a scale in a processing facility.

Cooperative Research staff work with squid processors to take measurements. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Anna Mercer

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Collaboration with Fishing Industry Contributes to Successful Longfin Squid Assessment

New England/Mid-Atlantic

A metal tray of six shucked oysters on shaved ice with a metal ramekin of sauce and two lemon wedges.

Shucked eastern oysters at Row 34 in Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Brianna Shaughnessy

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The World is Your Oyster: A Beginners Guide to Ordering, Shucking, and Eating Oysters

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A closeup of a small fish with huge eyes

Image caption: Close up of a lanternfish. Credit: DEEPEND/Danté Fenolio

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Decade of Data Shows Rapid Decline in Pelagic Fish and Invertebrates in Deep Gulf

Southeast

Close up photo of a orange-colored snow-Tanner hybrid crab showing its unique trait including a curved mouth.

A snow-Tanner hybrid crab collected during the 2026 eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey. Hybrid crab exhibit intermediate morphological traits—such as a curved mouth—relative to snow and Tanner crab parent species. Credit: NOAA Fisheries / Leah Zacher

Feature Story

Marine Heatwave Triggered a Hybrid Crab Surge in the Bering Sea

Alaska

A large brownish-gray shark on a hook at the surface of the water with a small half-eaten shark on the same hook

Documentation of depredation of an Atlantic sharpnose shark by a sandbar shark caught on the same hook during longline sampling. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Feature Story

Shark Depredation Tripled in 20 Years of Longline Survey

Southeast

Fisheries

Modify Groundfish Season Timing in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska Groundfish Fisheries

Alaska

Fisheries

Nominations for the ICCAT Advisory Committee Due October 31, 2026

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Southeast

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Southeast

Protected Resources

Incidental Take Authorization: U.S. Navy’s TRF Wharf Interface Repairs Project at U.S. Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia

Southeast

Fisheries

Federal Register Notices of Proposed and/or Continuing Information Collections as Required by the Paperwork Reduction Act

Alaska

Fisheries

Closure: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category Commercial Fishery

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Southeast

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Southeast

Safe Handling, Release, and Identification Workshops

Nov 2, 2026

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Southeast

Shrimp Futures Scenario Planning Workshop: South Atlantic Part 1

Nov 9, 2026 - Nov 10, 2026

Southeast

Atlantic Shark Identification Workshops

Nov 11, 2026

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Southeast

19th Flatfish Biology Conference - 2026

Nov 16, 2026 - Nov 17, 2026

New England/Mid-Atlantic

53rd United States Japan Natural Resources Aquaculture Panel Scientific Symposium

Nov 16, 2026 - Nov 19, 2026

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NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on an Application for an Exempted Fishing Permit to Support Cooperative Research that Would Identify and Verify Fishing Spawning Aggregations in the Gulf of America

Southeast

IB 26-52: NMFS Prohibits Directed Fishing for Pollock in Statistical Area 630 in the Gulf of Alaska

Alaska

IB 26-51: NMFS Reallocates Pacific Cod from Catcher Vessels Using Trawl Gear to Catcher Vessels < 60 feet (18.3 m) Length Overall using hook-and-line or pot gear and American Fisheries Act Catcher/Processors in the BSAI

Alaska

IB 26-50: NMFS Prohibits Directed Fishing for Pacific Cod by Vessels using Pot Gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska.

Alaska

IB 26-49: NMFS Reallocates Pacific cod from catcher vessels using trawl gear to vessels using pot gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska

Alaska

John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program

National

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Adult and juvenile sea lions resting on a sandy beach.

A bottlenose dolphin leaps out of bright turquoise ocean waves into sunlight.

A humpback whale breaching out of the ocean with a sandy beach and mountains in the background.

Sea turtle swimming over a coral reef with open ocean behind it

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A diver hovers over a pink hued reef while preparing a camera to take images of the benthos.

A scientist prepares to photograph a reef at Swains Island during the 2023 National Coral Reef Monitoring Program survey in American Samoa. Credit: NOAA Fisheries (Permit #NMSAS-2023-002)

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How Researchers Are Bringing the 2026 Pacific Coral Survey to You

Pacific Islands

Three people hold the angled trunk of a tree

GulfCorps crews clear vegetation to restore habitat in Florida. Credit: John Stanmeyer/The Nature Conservancy.

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Building Futures: How GulfCorps Combines Habitat Restoration with Job Training

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Featured News

Supporting Alaska’s Aquaculture Industry Through Collaborative Site Visits

Collaboration with Fishing Industry Contributes to Successful Longfin Squid Assessment

The World is Your Oyster: A Beginners Guide to Ordering, Shucking, and Eating Oysters

Decade of Data Shows Rapid Decline in Pelagic Fish and Invertebrates in Deep Gulf

Marine Heatwave Triggered a Hybrid Crab Surge in the Bering Sea

Shark Depredation Tripled in 20 Years of Longline Survey

Notices & Rules

Modify Groundfish Season Timing in the Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska Groundfish Fisheries

Nominations for the ICCAT Advisory Committee Due October 31, 2026

Incidental Take Authorization: U.S. Navy’s TRF Wharf Interface Repairs Project at U.S. Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia

Federal Register Notices of Proposed and/or Continuing Information Collections as Required by the Paperwork Reduction Act

Closure: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category Commercial Fishery

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Safe Handling, Release, and Identification Workshops

Shrimp Futures Scenario Planning Workshop: South Atlantic Part 1

Atlantic Shark Identification Workshops

19th Flatfish Biology Conference - 2026

53rd United States Japan Natural Resources Aquaculture Panel Scientific Symposium

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NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on an Application for an Exempted Fishing Permit to Support Cooperative Research that Would Identify and Verify Fishing Spawning Aggregations in the Gulf of America

IB 26-52: NMFS Prohibits Directed Fishing for Pollock in Statistical Area 630 in the Gulf of Alaska

IB 26-51: NMFS Reallocates Pacific Cod from Catcher Vessels Using Trawl Gear to Catcher Vessels < 60 feet (18.3 m) Length Overall using hook-and-line or pot gear and American Fisheries Act Catcher/Processors in the BSAI

IB 26-50: NMFS Prohibits Directed Fishing for Pacific Cod by Vessels using Pot Gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska.

IB 26-49: NMFS Reallocates Pacific cod from catcher vessels using trawl gear to vessels using pot gear in the Western Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska

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John H. Prescott Marine Mammal Rescue Assistance Grant Program

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How Researchers Are Bringing the 2026 Pacific Coral Survey to You

Building Futures: How GulfCorps Combines Habitat Restoration with Job Training