Celebrating our Top Taggers for Citizen Science Month

April is Citizen Science Month! To celebrate, we’re highlighting the anglers who make our cooperative tagging research possible, and recent accomplishments. Could you be the next top tagger?

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A White man in a suit and tie with a NOAA pin smiles in front of an American flag and black background. NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Eugenio Piñeiro Soler. Credit: NOAA Fisheries
four people in waders and hats standing in s stream about knee deep in water holding long poles as they are elecrofishing for salmon. One person holds a bucket. Biologists use electrofishing that temporarily incapacitates fish to collect juvenile salmon from a river on the Olympic Peninsula. Scientists then examine the fish before they quickly recover. Photo by Karrie Hanson.
Two North Pacific right whales on the surface of a choppy, blue ocean. Once is seen with the top of its head above water and mist expelling from its blow hole while the other's fluke is visible with water falling off the tailing edge. Two North Pacific right whales photographed from the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson in August, 2021, during a survey in Alaska. Photo taken under NOAA Fisheries Research Permit #20465.
Excavating a new channel for McCoys Creek to replace an 850-foot tunnel that forced the creek underground. Credit: City of Jacksonville Excavating a new channel for McCoys Creek to replace an 850-foot tunnel that forced the creek underground. Credit: City of Jacksonville
Scientists measuring a dolphin carcass on a table in a lab Scientists at NOAA Fisheries' Southwest Fisheries Science Center measure the carcass of a short-beaked common dolphin that stranded near San Diego during the ongoing domoic acid event. They will also collect additional information and samples to assess the dolphin's condition. Credit: Southwest Fisheries Science Center.
TNC18005_170314_0257.jpg GulfCorps crews clear vegetation to restore habitat in Florida. Credit: The Nature Conservancy/John Stanmeyer

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