Celebrating Aquaculture Week: Farming from Tide to Table

Join us for Aquaculture Week 2025 to learn how marine aquaculture—or farmed seafood—is vital for supporting our nation’s seafood production and jobs on the water, enhancing coastal resilience, and more.

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An aerial view of water winding in from the ocean upstream with green hills surrounding it. Wispy clouds cover the view on the right. Aerial view of Drakes Bay in Point Reyes, California. Credit: NOAA Fisheries
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5 Reasons to Love Estuaries

National
A pile of colorless, eel-like tiny fish with disproportionately large eyes A subsample of bluefin tuna larvae collected via net tow from the Slope Sea. The small individuals are about 3 millimeters in length and the larger individuals are about 6 millimeters. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Katey Marancik
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Genomics Help Uncover Mysteries of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

New England/Mid-Atlantic
Southeast
A haddock placed on an electronic white measuring board on a boat deck. Caption: The electronic data collection setup used by the groundfish conversion factor project. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dan Gates
A  rusty-brown colored Quillback rockfish with pointy spiked dorsal fin lies on its belly on top of a bed of dried grass. Quillback rockfish. Credit: H. Ibach
Two men in life jackets, aboard a boat at sea, hold a shrimp trawl net installed with a turtle excluder device and make adjustments to its structure NOAA team members adjust a prototyped turtle excluder device (TED) before sending it to divers below for continued testing on the NOAA R/V Caretta. Credit: NOAA Fisheries (ESA Permit 20339)

Upcoming Events

Longfin Inshore Squid Research Track Working Group

Sep 29, 2025 - Nov 5, 2025

WCPFC Permanent Advisory Committee Meeting

Oct 6, 2025 - Oct 8, 2025

October 2025 Council Coordination Committee Meeting

Oct 15, 2025 - Oct 16, 2025

Open Funding Opportunities

NOAA Great Lakes Fish Habitat Restoration Partnership Grants