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Celebrating Aquaculture Week: Farming from Tide to Table

Join us for Aquaculture Week 2025 to learn how marine aquaculture—or farmed seafood—is vital for supporting our nation’s seafood production and jobs on the water, enhancing coastal resilience, and more.
September 22, 2025 - Feature Story ,
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A person stands in chest deep water holding a floating oyster cage. Thomas Piecuch flips floating oyster bags on his farm (Credit: Holy Ground Oyster Company).

The Road to Identifying Aquaculture Opportunity Areas

New publications identify 21,000 acres in the Gulf of America and off Southern California as Aquaculture Opportunity Areas.
September 19, 2025 - News ,
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Smooth water on the open ocean with puffy white clouds reflected in teh water.

New Data Shows Healthy Numbers of Quillback Rockfish off California; Fishing to Resume

Charter fishing vessels helped collect data to reassess state of the species.
September 18, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
A rusty-brown colored Quillback rockfish with pointy spiked dorsal fin lies on its belly on top of a bed of dried grass. Quillback rockfish. Credit: H. Ibach

NOAA Announces Confirmed U.S. Large Whale Entanglement Numbers for 2024

There were 95 large whale entanglement cases documented in 2024—an increase from 2023 and higher than the historical average.
September 18, 2025 - Feature Story ,
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A trained and authorized responder stands on the bow of a boat and uses a specialized knife on a very long pole to attempt to remove an entanglement wrapped around a humpback whale’s body Credit: NOAA/Maria Harvey

New Test Measures Toxin from Tires in Marine Life, Helping Understand Risk to Marine Species and Ecosystems

NOAA scientists develop method to track toxic chemical in finfish, shellfish, and marine mammals.
September 17, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Dr. Li-Jung Kuo collects water from an urban stream for analysis of 6PPD-Q. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Photo Story: Training Future Seafood Farmers

Embark on a visual voyage with 50 Seattle-area middle schoolers at the first-ever NOAA Aquaculture Science Camp.
September 04, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
A kid in a blue shirt and hair net looks into a microscope. A student examines live phytoplankton in a water quality lesson about shellfish safety. Credit: Megan Ewald, NOAA Fisheries

Dive Surveys Reveal Promising Signs for Rockfish and Sea Stars off Washington Coast

Annual dive surveys of kelp forest habitat reveal strong rockfish reproduction and sightings of thriving sunflower sea stars.
August 29, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Diver Greg Williams inspects a large (roughly 50 centimeter diameter) sunflower sea star (Pycnopodia helianthoides) during a dive in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Sunflower sea stars were proposed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 2023 following their near extirpation from seastar wasting disease in the mid-2010s. Credit: Steve Lonhart, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Meet The Cultured Abalone Farm, Shellfish Growers in California

Meet Devin Spencer, general manager at The Cultured Abalone Farm, grows this iconic Californian shellfish for both culinary uses and kelp forest restoration.
August 26, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
two hands hold 5 abalone on a sunny day Red abalone grown at The Cultured Abalone Farm in Santa Barbara, California. Credit: The Cultured Abalone Farm

NOAA Fisheries Deploy Field Forensic Device to Combat Seafood Fraud in Long Beach

NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement officers and agents are now using the latest technology in genetic analysis to protect U.S. consumers from seafood fraud on the West Coast.
August 26, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
NOAA enforcement staff and Florida International University scientist test samples using a field forensic device during an enforcement operation in Long Beach, California. NOAA enforcement staff and Florida International University scientist test samples using a field forensic device during an enforcement operation in Long Beach, California. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

NOAA Fisheries Seeks Recommendations for Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness

A 45-day public comment period in support of the recent Executive Order is open until October 14, 2025.
August 26, 2025 - Feature Story ,
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Commercial fishing boats lined up in Sitka, Alaska. Commercial fishing boats lined up in Sitka, Alaska. Credit: Shutterstock.