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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

NOAA’s Tide to Table series profiles members of the aquaculture community who provide valuable jobs and access to fresh, sustainably sourced American seafood.
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.

Workshop Targets High-Tech Ways to Assess Endangered Whale Health

Advanced technology can give us more complete data on the health of endangered whale populations, which helps us figure out how to most effectively support their recovery.
August 14, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Southeast
West Coast
A black and white Southern Resident killer whale leaping out of the water. The fin of another whale is visible and a boat and mountains are in the background. Southern resident killer whales. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Candice Emmons

Southern California Restoration: NOAA and Partners Lead Coastal Recovery 10 Years After Refugio Oil Spill

A look at the coastal and marine habitat restoration underway along the Southern California coast in the 10 years since the Refugio Beach oil spill.
August 13, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
small purple flowers in front of a piece of driftwood on a beach. Volunteers are activated to help with efforts that enhance native beach dune vegetation. Shown here: Baby blue eyes (Nemophila menziesii). (Credit: The Bay Foundation)

2022 and 2023 Combined Report of Marine Mammal Strandings in the United States

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.
July 31, 2025 - Feature Story ,
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A minke whale carcass lies on a rocky beach. There are several lines to secure it in place while responders take measurements and samples. A complete necropsy of a minke whale on Blakely Island, Washington. The necropsy revealed injuries—including severe bruising and broken ribs and vertebrae—consistent with a vessel strike. Credit: The Whale Museum

NOAA Announces Confirmed Large Whale Entanglement Numbers for 2023

There were 64 large whale entanglement cases documented in 2023—a decrease from 2022 and below the historical average.
July 22, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
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Trained and authorized responders use a grapple to grab the entanglement trailing behind a North Atlantic right whale (#4545). Credit: Center for Coastal Studies, taken under NOAA Permit # 24359 Trained and authorized responders use a grapple to grab the entanglement trailing behind a North Atlantic right whale (#4545). Credit: Center for Coastal Studies, taken under NOAA Permit # 24359

California Man Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Sea Lion Beating

Ventura Police Department, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and California State Parks conduct joint investigation into beaten sea lion.
July 17, 2025 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
A person with short white hair wearing all black squats next to a sea lion. The sea lion is laying on the floor and the person is measuring it with a tool similar to calipers. Medical equipment is in the background on the black counters above white cabinets. Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute staff measure the thickness of the sea lion's blubber in preparation for an x-ray. Photo courtesy Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute