Marine Habitat Resource Specialist Ruth Goodfield credits her dad with putting the first fishing rod in her young hands. That inspired her lifelong interest in fish and career in Habitat Restoration.
Officials reopened Drayton Harbor, in northern Washington state, this winter to commercial oyster farming 22 years after the community stepped up to reduce water pollution.
NOAA participates in the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, launched in 2010 to protect and restore the largest system of fresh surface water in the world — the Great Lakes.
NOAA is recommending $1.37 million in funding for continued support of two Great Lakes regional habitat restoration partnerships, the Great Lakes Commission and Friends of the Detroit River. These partners are continuing projects previously planned and initiated to conserve wetlands, improve fish migration, and restore habitat for fish and wildlife.
The NOAA Ship Hiʻialakai is departing on a 19-day research expedition in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in support of Hawaiian monk seal and green sea turtle research and recovery activities.
