Fishermen, scientists, and policy makers work to prevent inadvertent death of migratory seabirds.

Join us for Aquaculture Week 2024 to learn how marine aquaculture—or farmed seafood—is vital for supporting our nation’s seafood production and year-round jobs, enhancing coastal resilience, and more.

Fascinating facts about our tasty lobster friends.

The National Bycatch Reduction Strategy, developed in collaboration with partners, includes objectives and actions that build on past successes and guide NOAA Fisheries’ efforts to reduce bycatch and bycatch mortality.

NOAA Live! Alaska is a series of webinars that connects NOAA scientists and partners with students, teachers, and Alaska communities.

Science supports healthy seafood harvests and thriving fishing communities today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Staff from New England-based local seafood restaurant Row 34 visited NOAA Fisheries in Woods Hole to learn more.

Learn more about what factors other than fishing can have an influential role in determining the health and abundance of fish stocks.

Research at our Narragansett Laboratory covers a wide range of topics, making us a regional focal point for incorporating climate information into fisheries and endangered species assessments.

We estimate the number of gray whale calves born each year and assess whale body condition during their northward migration in the spring. These surveys are essential to tracking the status of the eastern North Pacific gray whale population.

An interview with NOAA Fisheries biologist Rory Saunders.

Providing training and data quality services to promote excellence in fishery-dependent data collection.

Spearfishers can protect their catch and endangered Hawaiian monk seals by never feeding a seal.

The team dodges a hurricane at Pearl and Hermes Atoll and arrives at Midway Atoll to continue their mission on land.

U.S. fisheries are classified under the Marine Mammal Protection Act according to the level of interactions that result in incidental mortality or serious injury of marine mammals.

We invited some of our fishing industry partners in the Northeast to share their best tips for buying and cooking locally available seafood during the holidays.