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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.
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center partnered with the Smithsonian Institution to preserve fish and squid specimens that will expand the genetic reference libraries needed for ongoing and future eDNA research.
A new analytical method accounting for animal movement improves population size estimates of endangered false killer whales in Hawaiʻi and reveals the population has been declining for more than a decade.
NOAA scientists completed a historic fish, coral, and ocean condition survey across Wake Atoll, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
This report details marine mammal stranding rates, trends, and activities in the United States for both 2022 and 2023. In 2022, there were 6,061 confirmed marine mammal strandings; in 2023, there were 6,648.
NOAA Fisheries is collaborating with local anglers and research partners to collect vital data on fish populations in the Mariana Islands from July 7–21, 2025.
