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NOAA Scientists Go to Sea to Collect Data Crucial to Sustainable Alaska Fisheries

April 27, 2015 Contact: Julie Speegle, (907) 586-7032 (office), (907) 321-7032 (cell) Scientists from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center will embark from Dutch Harbor May 19 on another busy survey season off Alaska's coast.
April 27, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska

NOAA Fisheries Expands Whale SENSE Program to Alaska

For tourists visiting Juneau and Southeast Alaska, there is no sight more exhilarating than seeing humpback whales bubble feeding or breaching.
April 23, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska
humpback whale diving

NOAA Releases New Cook Inlet Beluga Abundance Estimate

Scientists from NOAA's Alaska Fisheries Science Center today announced that the 2014 abundance estimate for the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale population is 340 animals, a slight increase over the 2012 survey.
March 30, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska

NOAA Announces 2015 Charter and Commercial Halibut Management Measures

NOAA Fisheries is providing notice of the immediate effect of regulations of the International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC). The commercial IFQ halibut season opens Saturday, March 14, 2015. At its annual meeting in January, the IPHC recommended t
March 12, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska

Commerce Announces 2015 Out-of-Cycle Regional Fishery Council Appointment

The Commerce Department today announced the appointment of Kenneth "Kenny" Down of Washington state to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.
February 20, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska

NOAA Fisheries Extends Comment Period on Proposed Arctic Ringed Seal Critical Habitat

Proposal to designate critical habitat for Arctic ringed seals
January 30, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska

NOAA Fisheries to Hold Public Hearings on Proposed Arctic Ringed Seal Critical Habitat

NOAA Fisheries will host five public hearings in Alaska - one each in Nome, Anchorage, Kotzebue, Barrow, and Bethel - on a proposed rule to designate critical habitat for Arctic ringed seals under the Endangered Species Act. NOAA Fisheries opened a 90-day
January 12, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska

NOAA Fisheries Approves Second Round of Fisheries Disaster Relief Funds

NOAA Fisheries is announcing the approval of the second round of fisheries disaster funds in the amount of $13M to assist fishermen affected by the 2012 commercial fisheries failure due to the fishery resource disaster for the Yukon Chinook fishery, Kusko
January 12, 2015 - Media Release ,
Alaska