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What does a fisheries observer do?

Managing bigeye tuna in the Pacific is easy, right? Just estimate how many fish are out there swimming around at high speeds, calculate a sustainable amount to harvest, set a catch limit, and enforce it. Then the industry goes fishing, delivers to market,

Survey underway to assess how fishing tournaments contribute to the local economy in Hawai‘i.

Shell disease is an epizootic, or temporarily prevalent and widespread, disease found on lobsters.

Scientists produce an estimate of nearshore reef fish catch in Hawaiʻi.

Eight grade science teacher joins NOAA's Teacher At Sea Program on a bottom trawl survey.

Coastal Shark Survey

...even to help us search for endangered humpback whales in the Mariana Islands.

By Joshua Carpenter

Safety is an issue that everyone on the ship takes very seriously.