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Long-Running Sea Scallop Survey Diversifies for the Future

Using more vessels and more sampling to ensure data keeps coming for a top U.S. fishery.
April 07, 2025 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
The HabCam going over the stern of a research vessel with deckhands managing a deployment using cables. Deploying HabCam V4 from the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow on the 2024 Integrated Sea Scallop and HabCam Research Survey. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dvora Hart

International Coordination Busts Red Snapper Trafficking Scheme

NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement stopped more than 12 tons of illegal fish from entering the U.S. market.
April 04, 2025 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Illegal Brazilian red snapper imported from Brazil. Illegal Brazilian red snapper imported from Brazil. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Clam Survey Dredges Up Ice Age Find

Scientists on our 2024 Surfclam and Ocean Quahog Survey dredged up a mysterious object. A Smithsonian expert solved the mystery, identifying it as a likely extinct Ice Age walrus jawbone—a once-in-a-lifetime find!
April 03, 2025 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
An old gray jawbone about the length of an adult forearm sits upon a table in a lab. The right jawbone of a walrus, possibly thousands of years old, discovered during a NOAA dredge survey in 2024. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jonathan Duquette

Cape Cod Cranberry Bog Project Restoring Wetlands and Fish Passage for River Herring

A NOAA-funded project on the Upper Coonamessett River in Falmouth, Massachusetts, will remove fish passage barriers and restore wetlands on a former cranberry bog. This work complements earlier NOAA-funded work on the lower part of the river.
April 01, 2025 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Aerial view of the restored lower Coonamessett River. Credit: Adam Soule Aerial view of the restored lower Coonamessett River. Credit: Adam Soule

Alaskan Communities Use Flexibility in Snow Crab Fishery Regulations for Economic Relief

NOAA Fisheries works with communities, harvesters, and processors to navigate solutions in a pinch.
March 31, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Bering Sea snow crabs Bering Sea snow crab. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.

Meet Research Fishery Biologist, Ron Hill

As part of the Faces of the Southeast Fisheries Science Center series, meet Dr. Ron Hill.
March 28, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
A scuba diver swims over a reef with a long measuring tape and a writing slate for collecting data Ron Hill conducting a transect survey of reef fish species, size, abundance, and distribution as a measure of reef condition. Photo courtesy of Ron Hill.

Reducing Waste and Feeding Communities in Hawaiʻi with a Whole Fish Approach

A program in Hawai‘i is trying to increase food security and reduce food waste by using every part of the fish, from bone marrow to blood lines—even making the skin into leather!
March 27, 2025 - Podcast ,
Pacific Islands
Fish sitting on ice in a metal bowl. Fresh-caught taʻape on ice. Credit: Conservation International Hawaiʻi.

Early Bloom of Toxic Algae off Southern California Sickens Hundreds of Sea Lions and Dolphins

Rescue teams face hard decisions over which animals to save.
March 27, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
A sea lion on a beach twisted on its side A sea lion with domoic acid poisoning experiencing involuntary muscle spasms. Credit: Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute

Dive into Alaska Aquaculture

NOAA Fisheries releases new aquaculture information and education resources page.
March 26, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Researchers holding experimental oysters Aquaculture in Alaska consists primarily of shellfish and seaweed farming. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Diving into Creatures of the Deep

Dive in and learn about creatures of the deep. These mysterious species live way below the surface of the ocean.
March 24, 2025 - Feature Story ,
National
Gelatinous sea creature photographed using the ROV Deep Discoverer in 2015. Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research Gelatinous sea creature photographed using the ROV Deep Discoverer in 2015. Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research