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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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On the back deck of a fisheries survey vessel, two adult snow crabs on top of a blue plastic tote.

Snow crabs sampled during the 2024 eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey. Credit: NOAA Fisheries / Erin Fedewa

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Snow Crab Collapse Linked to Energetic Limitations During a Marine Heatwave

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A grid of text and photos. A man flips oyster cages in chest deep water at sunrise (top left); a woman in a pink shirt with curly hair poses for a professional photo with a grey background (top middle); a fisherman in fishing gear holds up a fish in each hand from his boat (top right); two people in winter allweather gear and hats hold up scallops, one in each of their hands; a man in a tan baseball cap presents a yellowfin tuna to the camera while sitting on his boat (bottom middle); a woman in a teal jack

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

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A woman leans poses for a photo with a buoy resting on a classroom workbench. She drapes her left arm over the buoy and uses her right to steady it. The buoy has stickers that read Tremont Consolidated School.

Teacher at Sea Tonya Prentice and the recovered drifter at Tremont Consolidated School in Bass Harbor, Maine.

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Beyond the Horizon: the Drifter that Returned from Sea

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A grid of two rows of three photos each, with a text box "meet the people brining our nation seafood". The top row: A man in a hat holding two plates of seafood in front of a Fish Market storefront (left); A man kneeling on a tarp in an estuary with a handfull of small oysters (middle); A man in a teal shirt smiling with a beach in the background (right). In the bottom row: A family on a small boat labaled Farm Stand (right); a woman in a chef's apron and shirt holding up a salmon standing on a rocky coastl

Credit: NOAA Fisheries and Partners

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

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Aerial view of the Lower Siuslaw River and wetlands

The McKenzie River Trust is working with local tribes and groups to restore tidal wetlands that once supported coho, Chinook salmon and steelhead along the Lower Siuslaw River in Oregon. The restoration of such habitat with community support has benefitted salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act, a scientific assessment found. Photo courtesy McKenzie River Trust.

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Most Threatened and Endangered Pacific Coast Salmon Populations Increased After Listings

West Coast

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Amendment 34 to the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Management Plan: Groundfish Exclusion Area for Coral Research and Restoration

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12-Month Finding on a Petition to List Oregon Coast Chinook Salmon and Southern Oregon and Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon as Threatened or Endangered Under the Endangered Species Act

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Submit Nominations for the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Advisory Panel

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Nominations for the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species SouthEast Data Assessment, and Review (SEDAR) Pool Due by January 8, 2026

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2026 and Projected 2027 Summer Flounder, Scup, Black Sea Bass, and Bluefish Specifications Proposed Rule

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December 2025 Safe Handling, Release, and Identification Workshop

Dec 15, 2025

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IB 25-51: NMFS Reapportions Halibut PSC Limits from the Pacific Cod Trawl Cooperative Program to Trawl Catcher Vessels for the Pacific Cod Fishery in the BSAI

Alaska

IB 25-50: NMFS Reallocates Pacific Cod from Catcher Vessels ≥ to 60 Feet (ft) Length Overall (LOA) Using Pot Gear to Catcher/Processors Using Pot Gear in the BSAI

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Fiscal Year 2024–2026: Broad Agency Announcement

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NOAA Great Lakes Fish Habitat Restoration Partnership Grants

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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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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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