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A woman with long brown hair wearing a gray shirt smiles at the camera. Dr. Claire Gonzales was a 2024–2025 Knauss Fellow with NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Science and Technology. Credit: Claire Gonzales
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Knauss Fellow Feature: Meet Dr. Claire Gonzales

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A small gray-brown fish positioned above a much larger, speckled yellow-brown fish with reddish fins against a black background. These two freckled stargazers (Xenocephalus egregius) were collected by NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Bottom Trawl Survey in September 2022. They were used to help redescribe the species, and show the physical changes that this species experiences throughout its lifespan. Juveniles (top) tend to have blue-green streaks, while adults (bottom) display a yellow-gold coloring and freckles. These specimens now reside in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History’s collection. Credit: Katherine Bemis/NOAA Fisheries and Matthew Girard/Smithsonian Institution
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Expanding the Range—and our Understanding—of the Freckled Stargazer

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Small village on a peninsula surround by blue water, a small fishing port protected by a breakwater in the foreground, mountains in the background Sand Point, Alaska, is a remote city in the Aleutians East Borough. It was founded in 1898 as a cod fishing station and trading post. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Connor Maguire
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New Tools Help Alaska Communities Prepare for Future Changes in Pacific Cod Distributions

Alaska
A fisheries observer in an orange coat and green overall bibs leans over a blue fishing tote with two salmon laid on the top. One is being measured on a measuring board. A shore-based fisheries observer collects data from a salmon caught in the pollock fishery at a fish processing plant in Alaska. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/North Pacific Observer Program
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Shore-Based Observers Strengthen Catch Accounting in Alaska’s Pollock Fishery

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A grid of photos with text overlaid saying "Aquaculture Literacy Mini-Grantees" with an eeBLUE logo. Clockwise from the top right: Two people face each other as they talk into podcast microphones; Two sisters smile for the camera with the ocean behind them; An adult stands over a child and guides him in shucking an oyster; teachers working together on large bins for an aquaculture installation; three people in a commercial kitchen with the person closest to the camera holding ingredients. Photo Credits (clockwise from top left): Gabriela Bradt; Saltwater Classroom/Austin Mills; Logan Willans/Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center; University of Maryland; Martha's Vineyard Shellfish Group
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Part 2—A Little Goes a Long Way: How Small Programs Are Educating Communities About Farmed Seafood

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A grid of four photos. Top left is a From Hatchery to Habitat exhibit at an aquarium. Top right is a close-up of a person's hands and they are holding a shucked oyster and pouring hot sauce on it. Bottom left is a group of people in waist-high water watching an oyster farmer pull cages up to show their farm. Bottom right is a group of high school culinary students and their mentors standing at a display table. Overlaid on the photo grid reads "eeBLUE naaee Aquaculture Literacy Mini-Grantees" Photo credits: Tampa Bay Watch (top left); South Carolina Aquarium (top right); North Carolina Oyster Trail (bottom left); Tagal Oceanic/Lisa Tagal (bottom right)
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Part 1—A Little Goes a Long Way: How Small Programs Are Educating Communities About Farmed Seafood

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

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Alaska
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2025-2026 Alaska Groundfish Harvest Specifications

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Petition to List Olympic Peninsula Steelhead as a Threatened or Endangered Distinct Population Segment

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West Coast
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Closure: Atlantic Bluefin Tuna General Category Commercial Fishery

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New England/Mid-Atlantic
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2026 Atlantic Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Specifications Final Rule

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Longfin Inshore Squid Research Track Working Group

Feb 2, 2026 - Feb 24, 2026

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Educator Webinar: From Field Trips to Field Experiences—Partnering for Meaningful Environmental Education

Feb 10, 2026

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Pacific Hake/Whiting Treaty: Scientific Review Group Meeting

Feb 10, 2026 - Feb 13, 2026

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Educator Workshop: Phenomena-Based Learning in the Field and Classroom

Feb 19, 2026

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Pacific Hake/Whiting Treaty: U.S. - Canada JMC and AP Meeting 2026

Feb 24, 2026 - Feb 26, 2026

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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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Fish sitting on ice in a metal bowl. Fresh-caught taʻape on ice. Credit: Conservation International Hawaiʻi.
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Reducing Waste and Feeding Communities in Hawaiʻi with a Whole Fish Approach

Pacific Islands
Three people wearing rubber boots, chest waders, and protective gear, haul a large yellow and white passive acoustic recorder out of the ocean at the end of a large boat. Researchers retrieve a passive acoustic recorder. Courtesy: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
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Listening for Whales: Using Passive Acoustic Monitoring to Track North Atlantic Right Whales

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