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50 Years of Innovation and Leadership: Celebrating the Magnuson-Stevens Act

NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Eugenio Piñeiro Soler reflects on the legacy and the future impact of the Act.
April 13, 2026 - Leadership Message ,
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U.S. Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Warren Magnuson (D-WA) having a conversation in their neighboring senate seats, with state flags in the background. U.S. Senators Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Warren Magnuson (D-WA), 1973.

Restoring Habitat and Engaging the Recreational Community through the National Fish Habitat Partnership

Partners are advancing progress of habitat restoration and angler engagement projects in Hawaiʻi, Oregon, and South Carolina.
May 28, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Southeast
West Coast
A person wearing a Kuleana Coral Restoration shirt takes a picture of a piece of coral while a young person looks on Kuleana Coral Restoration works with volunteers to prepare coral fragments for planting. Credit: Mike Ito.

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 guides a guides a square black crate hooked onto a floating bag across the sea floor A diver uses a lift bag to transport loose rubble. Credit: NOAA.

Hawai‘i Coral Reef Assessments Complete for 2024

Kānaka ʻŌiwi knowledge systems, values, and practices inform a 3-month mission assessing coral reef health and ocean conditions in Hawai‘i as part of the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program.
November 27, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Healthy coral reef with fishes in the foreground, a diver conducts a survey in the background. A scientist carefully hovers above the reef off of Kailua-Kona to take photographs while swimming along a transect line. He took more than 1,000 photos of this single transect that will be stitched together to form a 3D model of this reef. It will be interesting to see how this reef with high coral cover has changed over time! Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dani Escontrella

Restoring Ecosystems and Rejuvenating Native Hawaiian Traditions in Maui

With support from NOAA, Hawaiʻi Land Trust is restoring a 15th-century Native Hawaiian aquaculture site. This human-made ecosystem will provide food for community members and habitat for wildlife while protecting coral reefs offshore.
October 10, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Lush green mountains meet blue ocean water along a rocky coast Waiheʻe Coastal Dunes and Wetlands Refuge. Credit: Hawaiʻi Land Trust.

A Substantial Reduction in Seal Entanglement

New analysis confirms Hawaiian monk seals greatly benefit from marine debris cleanup efforts in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.
September 27, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A Hawaiian monk seal lays on a sandy beach while a green net is wrapped around their neck and mouth. A Hawaiian monk seal entangled in a derelict fishing net. Credit: NOAA Fisheries (Permit #10137)

Restoring Coral and Stream Banks Through the National Fish Habitat Partnership

Partners are making great strides in habitat restoration and angler engagement projects in Hawaiʻi and Alaska.
June 18, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Pacific Islands
National
People along a stream bank dig holes and plant vegetation Near Talkeetna, Alaska, volunteers are hard at work planting native trees and shrubs to improve shoreline habitat for fish on Montana Creek, a popular trout and salmon-fishing stream. Credit: Trout Unlimited Alaska.

Recreational Fishing Communities Help to Protect and Restore Habitat through National Fish Habitat Partnership

Nearly $175,000 will support habitat restoration and angler engagement projects in Oregon, Hawaiʻi, and South Carolina.
June 03, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Southeast
West Coast
National
A group of 10 volunteers and staff in matching shirts pose for a photo on a beach Kuleana Coral Restoration team gathers at a public outreach event in 2023 at Pokai Bay, Hawai'i. Credit: Kuleana Coral Restoration.

Meet Your Pacific Islands Protected Coral Species

Five of the 15 Indo-Pacific corals listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act occur in U.S. waters. Here they are!
December 07, 2023 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
Yellow coral that has colonies of thick, finger-like branches that are always closely spaced. Acropora globiceps at Tinian island, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Under the Endangered Species Act, A. globiceps is listed as threatened in CNMI, American Samoa, Guam, Hawaiʻi, and the Pacific Remote Islands Area. Credit: Doug Fenner

Millionth Spiny Superhero Released to Devour Hawaiʻi's Coral-Smothering Algae

One million sea urchins have now been deployed through the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources’ work in partnership with NOAA to restore corals after the M/V Cape Flattery grounded on an Oʻahu reef.
December 06, 2023 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
1598920005.jpg Hawaiian collector sea urchins clean invasive algae off of corals in Kāne‘ohe Bay. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.