News and Announcements | NOAA Fisheries

North Atlantic Right Whale and Offshore Wind Strategy Open for Public Comment until December 4

NOAA Fisheries and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management seek public comment on a new draft strategy to minimize the effects of offshore wind development on right whales and their habitat.

October 21, 2022 - Feature Story ,

New England/Mid-Atlantic

National

The first offshore wind farm in the United States, the 30 megawatt, 5 turbine Block Island Wind Farm, began commercial operations in 2016. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Evolving Science and Surveys in the Birthplace of NOAA Fisheries

Dive into the diverse science collected in the Northeast region and learn about the historic origins of Woods Hole, which today is an epicenter of oceanography and home to several institutions, including the Northeast Fisheries Science Center.

May 05, 2022 - Podcast ,

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Color image taken during daylight from the upper deck of a research vessel, facing toward the rear of the vessel as it sails through a canal. Land is visible on each side of the canal, and the ship leaves a wake in the water. Two steel framed bridges are in the image. The ship has just passed under the bridge used by vehicles. The railroad bridge is in the distance.

View over the stern of the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow, exiting the Cape Cod Canal headed east toward Provincetown, Mass. at the beginning of Leg 3 of the 2021 Northeast Fisheries Science Center fall bottom trawl survey. The two bridges spanning the canal are used by trains (background) and vehicle traffic (foreground). Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Katelyn Depot.

What Satellite Tags Are Telling Us About False Killer Whales

Satellite tagging efforts under a NOAA Fisheries recovery grant are making a difference for an endangered population of false killer whales in Hawai‘i.

February 18, 2022 - Feature Story ,

Pacific Islands

Satellite map of raw location data for false killer whale HIPc808 in 2021.

HIPc808, a false killer whale identified in Cascadia Research Collective’s identification catalog, took a 10-day journey across the entire main Hawaiian Islands in 2021. Satellite tags are helping Cascadia Research Collective, the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources, and NOAA Fisheries better understand the endangered main Hawaiian Islands insular false killer whale population. Credit: Cascadia Research Collective.

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and NOAA Demonstrate the Power of a Government-wide Approach to Sustainable Fisheries and Offshore Wind

Agencies announce the implementation of a programmatic mitigation approach to address the impacts of offshore wind energy development on NOAA Fisheries’ scientific surveys.

May 28, 2021 - Feature Story ,