Celebrating Oysters During Oyster Week

Happy Oyster Week! We love oysters and all they do, so we're honoring one of our favorite shellfish all week with special features.

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A man in chef attire and a professional chef's hat stands behind a metal butcher block with salmon filets laid out on a blue cutting board in front of him. He's smiling at the camera and various kitchenware and knifes are hanging on the wall behind him. Chef Matthew Ona of the Culinary Institute of America Credit: Courtesy of Chef Ona
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How to Filet a Fish with Chef Matthew Ona of The Culinary Institute of America

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Sorting oysters on the dock of Salty Lady Seafood Company farm. Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries Sorting oysters on the dock of Salty Lady Seafood Company farm. Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries
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NOAA Releases Report on Aquaculture Planning in Gulf of Alaska

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view of NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson underway, as seen from a small workboat. a portion of the workboat is visible in the foreground, though the image is focused on the view of the larger ship. NOAA’s Teacher at Sea Program provides educators hands-on marine science experience aboard NOAA research vessels. TAS ‘26 Guy Sturdevant took this photo of NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson from the small workboat Peggy D.
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Trading Prairie Winds for Ocean Swells: How Two Kansas Teachers Brought NOAA Fisheries Research Home to the Midwest

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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 graphic with two photos stylized as polaroids. The left is a 1960s image of a swordfishing vessel off the coast of New England and the right is a recent picture of two people in hazard vests offloading swordfish packed in ice. The background is a faded image of boats at a dock in hawaii Archival photo of New England swordfishing vessel (left) courtesy of NOAA Fisheries; Background photo and photo offloading fish (right) courtesy of Hawaii Longline Association/Eric Kingma
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Highly Migratory Species Management: Managing Shared Resources at Home and Around the World

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Mandala of seafood including fish, lobsters, oysters
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Celebrate National Seafood Month

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Notices & Rules

Fisheries

Closure: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category Commercial Fishery

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Protected Resources

Incidental Take Authorization: Sonoma County Water Agency's Estuary Management Activities in Sonoma County, California (2027)

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Quota Transfer: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Angling Category Recreational Fishery

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Incidental Take Authorization: City and Borough of Juneau's Seawalk Extension Project, Juneau, Alaska

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Gear Marking and Entanglement Risk Reduction

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Upcoming Events

Atlantic Shark Identification Workshops

Oct 19, 2026

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Documentary Screening of "The Hidden Gulf" at Gulf County Public Library

Oct 20, 2026

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October 2026 Council Coordination Committee Meeting

Oct 20, 2026 - Oct 21, 2026

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Safe Handling, Release, and Identification Workshops

Nov 2, 2026

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Shrimp Futures Scenario Planning Workshop: South Atlantic Part 1

Nov 9, 2026 - Nov 10, 2026

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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

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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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