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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1 Million to Support Climate Resilience In Remote Alaska Communities As Part of Investing In America Agenda

Funding will advance NOAA's efforts to support Indigenous Knowledge holders and Alaska Natives.
February 21, 2024 - Media Release ,
Alaska
An Alaska Native woman uses a traditional ulu knife to cut strips of salmon to hang in the smokehouse at a fishing camp along the Kuskokwim River. Credit: NOAA Fisheries An Alaska Native woman uses a traditional ulu knife to cut strips of salmon to hang in the smokehouse at a fishing camp along the Kuskokwim River. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

U.S. Department of Commerce Allocates More Than $42 Million in Fishery Disaster Funding

Funds will support tribes, West Coast, Gulf states and Alaska.
January 29, 2024 - Media Release ,
Alaska
Southeast
West Coast
National
Gulf Coast Shrimping Boat in Biloxi Gulf Coast Shrimping boat off Biloxi/Ocean Springs Coast, Mississippi. Credit: Getty Images.

Biden-Harris Administration makes $106 million available for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund as part of Investing in America agenda

Funds will support West Coast and Alaska salmon and steelhead recovery
December 05, 2023 - Media Release ,
Alaska
West Coast
National
Male and female steelhead swimming underwater Male and female steelhead trout. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.

NOAA Fisheries and Partners to Hold 5th Annual Belugas Count September 23

Alaska’s largest one-day marine mammal educational event to celebrate 50th anniversary of Endangered Species Act.
September 15, 2023 - Media Release ,
Alaska
National
Belugas Count logo

Biden-Harris Administration announces $106 million in recommended funding for West Coast and Alaska salmon recovery

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act to support salmon and steelhead recovery
August 17, 2023 - Media Release ,
Alaska
West Coast
National
None Spring chinook salmon swimming Spring Chinook Salmon. Credit: Michael Humling, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

NOAA initiates Aquaculture Opportunity Area efforts in Alaska

NOAA and partners in the State of Alaska are announcing plans to identify Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in Alaska state waters.
June 01, 2023 - Media Release ,
Alaska

U.S. Department of Commerce allocates $220M in fishery disaster funding to AK and WA

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announces the allocation of over $220 million in fishery disaster funding, appropriated by Congress in the 2022 and 2023 Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Acts.
May 18, 2023 - Media Release ,
Alaska
West Coast

Alaska Halibut Season Opens March 10

NOAA announces 2023 charter and commercial halibut management measures.
March 06, 2023 - Media Release ,
Alaska
Pacific halibut on seafloor. A Pacific halibut on the seafloor in the Gulf of Alaska

NOAA Fisheries Denies Request for Emergency Action to Close the Red King Crab Savings Area and Subarea

NOAA and Alaska Department of Fish and Game are supporting an urgent cooperative research project focused on Bristol Bay red king crab.
January 20, 2023 - Media Release ,
Alaska
A red king crab

Secretary of Commerce approves disaster declarations in AK and WA

Determination to address economic impacts from 2019 to 2023
December 16, 2022 - Media Release ,
Alaska
West Coast