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U.S. Department of Commerce Allocates $206K In Funding for Puget Sound Fishery Disaster

Funds will support the Squaxin Island Tribe’s fall chum salmon fishery.
April 17, 2024 - Media Release ,
West Coast
Close-up of two chum salmon at the bottom of murky water. Can see rocks below the fish. Chum salmon. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Biden-Harris Administration Announces $60 Million to Advance Tribal Priorities and Address Climate Change Impacts on Pacific Salmon and Steelhead in the Columbia River

Funding from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act will support Columbia Basin hatchery facilities.
March 22, 2024 - Media Release ,
West Coast
National
Coho Salmon being held my a hatcheries worker by the Nez Perce Tribe Hatcheries operated by the Nez Perce Tribe, with Mitchell Act funding, supported the reintroduction of Coho salmon to the Lostine River in Oregon in 2020. Credit: Nez Perce Tribe.

Biden-Harris Administration Announces New NOAA-NASA Agreement to Advance North Atlantic Right Whale Conservation Technologies as Part of Investing In America Agenda

Inflation Reduction Act makes new funding available through NOAA Fisheries to conserve and recover endangered species.
March 04, 2024 - Media Release ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Southeast
National
NARW #3720 and calf North Atlantic right whale #3720 and calf were first spotted off Wassaw Island, Georgia, on January 19, 2021. NOAA Fisheries will partner with NASA and the private sector to develop satellite tags that improve whale detection and reduce the risk of vessel strikes. Credit: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, taken under NOAA permit #20556-01.

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 Over $20.6M in Fishery Disaster Funding

Funds will support California salmon fisheries
February 01, 2024 - Media Release ,
West Coast
National
School of adult chinook salmon Spring Chinook Salmon. Credit: Michael Humling, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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 Announces $27 Million for Transformational Science Supporting Recovery of Threatened and Endangered Pacific Salmon

Funding from Investing in America agenda will support management decisions in a changing climate
January 26, 2024 - Media Release ,
West Coast
National
underwater shot of sockeye salmon Sockeye salmon. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

NOAA, BOEM Announce Final North Atlantic Right Whale and Offshore Wind Strategy

Strategy is part of larger interagency effort to promote recovery of endangered species while responsibly developing offshore wind
January 25, 2024 - Media Release ,
National
Two North Atlantic right whales from above, exhaling. These two rare North Atlantic right whales were photographed by the NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Center aerial survey team in May 2016. Credit: Tim Cole/NOAA Fisheries, NEFSC.

New Partnership to Develop North Atlantic Right Whale Protection Technologies as Part of Investing in America Agenda

Inflation Reduction Act makes new funding available through NOAA Fisheries to conserve and recover endangered species
January 09, 2024 - Media Release ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Southeast
National
A birds eye view of an entangled North Atlantic right whale swimming off of Surf City, North Carolina. Behind the tail you can see some light blue gear weighing the tail down. An entangled adult North Atlantic right whale “Argo” off of Surf City, North Carolina. The light blue rectangle behind the flukes is the trailing entangling gear. Credit: Clearwater Marine Aquarium Research Institute, taken under NOAA permit #24359.

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.