Restoration Lab Corals Return to the Seafloor for the First Time

Some of the first mesophotic corals to spawn in human care were successfully returned to the seafloor as part of efforts to restore habitats injured by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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Shell-ebrate the Holidays with Festive Fisheries Cards

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Operation Riptide: Highly Migratory Species Enforcement Levels the Playing Field for Law-Abiding Fishermen

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U.S. Fights for American Fishing in the Pacific, Leads Electronic Monitoring of International Fleets

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Part 1: Seafood Tips from the People Bringing You America's Seafood

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A vibrant orange and red fish swimming through a reef. A vermillion rockfish—just one of many species that are now abundant—swims through the restored Palos Verdes Reef. Credit: Jonathan P. Williams, Vantuna Research Group
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A Restored Reef Brings Fish Habitat Back to Southern California

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Part 2: Seafood Tips from the People Bringing You America's Seafood

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Incidental Take Authorization: Pacific Gas & Electric's Sediment Remediation Project, Remedial Response Area C in San Francisco Bay

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Incidental Take Authorization: Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities’ Cold Bay Ferry Terminal Reconstruction Project in Cold Bay, Alaska

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2026 Observer Coverage Rate for the Hawai‘i Deep-Set Longline Fishery

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Incidental Take Authorization: NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations Research Vessel Relocation at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island (2026)

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Incidental Take Authorization: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory's Marine Geophysical Survey of the East Pacific Rise in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean

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Building Futures: How GulfCorps Combines Habitat Restoration with Job Training

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Reducing Waste and Feeding Communities in Hawaiʻi with a Whole Fish Approach

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Listening for Whales: Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Track North Atlantic Right Whales

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