NOAA Fisheries, together with support from our partners, successfully relocated male Hawaiian monk seal pup RQ58 (Koalani) to a remote Oʻahu shoreline on August 19, 2022.
Historic climate resilience funding for NOAA, made possible by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, will improve habitat restoration, coastal resilience, and weather forecasting infrastructure.
NOAA Fisheries and partners returned endangered Hawaiian monk seal RP92 to Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi, on July 8, 2022. The seal was released after life-saving intervention to remove an ingested fishing hook.
Recent research reveals that smaller female North Atlantic right whales produce fewer calves. Their body size has been declining in recent decades due to increased entanglements in fishing gear and other factors.
This Sea Turtle Week, we talk with Barbara Schroeder, National Sea Turtle Coordinator, about bycatch innovations that are helping sea turtles thrive and how we work with fishermen to reduce bycatch.
