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As Fishing Season Opens, NOAA Implements Emergency Action to Ensure Uninterrupted Northeast Fisheries

This action provides a much-needed boost to Northeast fishermen, the seafood industry, and local fishing communities.
May 02, 2025 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
A blue and white vessel with "R/V Gloria Michelle" on each side traverses past a breakwater. The NOAA research vessel Gloria Michelle conducts groundfish surveys in New England, an important mission to support science-based fisheries management. Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries

NOAA Fisheries Releases 2023 Status of Stocks

This report provides a "snapshot in time" of the status of our nation's fisheries at the end of 2023.
May 02, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
New England/Mid-Atlantic
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Southeast
West Coast
National
Young fish swimming. Juvenile coho salmon. Credit: iStock

60 Years of Science on the Atlantic

The Northeast Bottom Trawl survey reached a major milestone when it turned 60 years old in fall 2023. Learn how this survey is conducted and how it informs science and management in the Atlantic.
February 01, 2024 - Podcast ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Survey tow net is hauled up with catch for sorting and processing After each survey tow, the net is retrieved and the catch is emptied into a hopper where a series of conveyors move the catch to the sorting and processing area aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow. There, scientists sort the catch and collect data and biological samples. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jessica Blaylock

Ocean Models Help Link Environmental Conditions to a Fishery Stock Assessment

We are one step closer to using ocean and climate information to improve stock assessments and management measures.
July 22, 2022 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
A flat, diamond-shaped fish lying on a sandy ocean bottom. Both eyes are on one side of the head, looking up at the camera. Caption: Yellowtail flounder on a sandy bottom photographed by a towed sampling array called HabCam. Photo Courtesy Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Predator-Prey Interaction Study Reveals More Food Does Not Always Mean More Consumption

Decades of data allow researchers at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center to look at predator-prey interactions in a different way: among multiple species throughout the water column.
September 29, 2020 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Winter flounder on the ocean bottom in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Winter flounder (Pseudopleuronectes americanus) in Narragansett Bay. It is a flatfish native to coastal waters of the western North Atlantic coast from Labrador to Georgia, although it is less common south of Delaware Bay. It feeds on bottom-dwelling animals. Photo: NOAA Fisheries

Meet Renowned Flatfish Expert Dr. Tom Munroe

NOAA Fisheries/Smithsonian Institution scientist Dr. Tom Munroe recently received the 2018 Robert H. Gibbs, Jr., Memorial Award in recognition of his outstanding body of published work in systematic ichthyology (the field of study describing and naming fishes).
November 02, 2018 - Feature Story ,
National
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