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New Dam Removal Project Reinvigorates Effort to Open the Raritan River for Migratory Fish

Funding to remove the Rockafellows Mill Dam in New Jersey is part of a long-term effort to bring shad and other native fish back to spawning grounds which have been blocked for almost 200 years.
March 20, 2025 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Shad on the big screen. Credit: NOAA graphic, with stock images from AdobeStock Shad on the big screen. Credit: NOAA graphic, with stock images from AdobeStock

Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s Mangroves: How BoriCorps Creates Jobs for Young Professionals

This NOAA-funded program helps Puerto Rican young professionals get training and job experience to enter the workforce, while restoring mangroves destroyed by Hurricane Maria.
March 19, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
Several people in blue long-sleeve BoriCorps shirts and sunhats wade through shallow water, dragging mangrove plants. BoriCorps members plant mangroves in Puerto Rico. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on Makah Whale Hunt Permit Application

Hunt permit application outlines tribal request to hunt gray whales in summer 2025 and 2027.
March 18, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Makah Tribe in hand-carved canoes The Makah Tribe long hunted whales in hand-carved canoes, such as this one landing at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula about 1900. They voluntarily stopped hunting gray whales in 1928 as commercial whaling depleted the species, which has since recovered in the eastern Pacific. Photo courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122.

From Krill to Elephant Seals, Sentinel Species Detect Hidden Ocean Shifts that Forecast Change

New research identifies species that signal changes in ocean ecosystems.
March 13, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
A large male northern elephant seal lies on a sandy beach, looking at the camera. Other elephant seals are in the background. A male northern elephant seal. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Mark Lowry

Innovative Coral Restoration Begins in Hawaiʻi After Ship Grounding

A promising and emerging coral restoration technique is being tested in the coastal waters of Hawai‘i for the first time.
March 13, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A diver uses a lift bag to transport loose rubble. A diver uses a lift bag to transport loose rubble. Credit: NOAA

New App Simplifies Declarations for Fishers, Law Enforcement

New system enhances the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of the declaration process.
March 13, 2025 - Feature Story ,
National
Fishers working on a vessel at sea Fishers working on a vessel at sea. One of the advantages of the declarations app is that it allows more time for vessel operators to focus on their business and less time doing administrative tasks.

Pilot Test of Field Forensic Device Identified More Than 40 Tons of Trafficked Fish

NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement is bringing the forensics lab directly into the hands of enforcement staff with a new rapid genetics device to help them stop seafood fraud and illegal trade.
March 12, 2025 - Feature Story ,
National
NOAA enforcement staff and a Florida International University scientist perform the first field test of a field forensic device during an enforcement operation in Newark, New Jersey. NOAA enforcement staff and Florida International University scientist perform the first field test of a field forensic device during an enforcement operation in Newark, New Jersey. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Reward For Up to $20,000 Offered for Information About Decapitated Sea Lion at Doran Beach

Reward offered for information leading to a civil penalty or criminal conviction.
March 11, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
California Sea Lion laying on large rocks California Sea Lion. Credit: NOAA/Kristin Wilkinson

Endangered Species Habitat Restoration Creates Jobs, Boosts Local Economy

NOAA and other government investments in recovering the endangered Central California Coast coho salmon sustain a restoration economy in Mendocino, California.
March 10, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
The Big River flows into the Pacific Ocean on the Mendocino Coast. NOAA has funded numerous restoration projects on the Big River to benefit Central California Coast coho salmon. Credit: Adobe Stock The Big River flows into the Pacific Ocean on the Mendocino Coast. NOAA has funded numerous restoration projects on the Big River to benefit Central California Coast coho salmon. Credit: Adobe Stock

El Niño Yields to Upwelling in the California Current, Renewing Productivity of West Coast Ecosystem

Outlook for salmon improves after low returns closed California fisheries.
March 07, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Sun setting over the ocean as seen aboard a research vessel The sun sets over the net reel of the NOAA ship Bell M. Shimada. Credit: NOAA Fisheries