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$9.2 Million in Inflation Reduction Act Funds Awarded to Academic Partners for Pacific Salmon Recovery Science

Partnerships are key to strengthening NOAA’s science-based approach toward recovering imperiled Pacific salmon populations.
November 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
West Coast
Researchers on a small boat on a river Researches with the Fisheries Collaborative Program at the University of California at Santa Cruz deploy equipment to measure predation rates on juvenile salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Photo: Brendan Lehman

2024 Research for Pacific Protected Species

Inflation Reduction Act funds helped NOAA Fisheries scientists enhance our 2024 data for ice seals in Alaska, Hawaiian monk seals and sea turtles in the Pacific Islands, and cetaceans off the West Coast.
November 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Pacific Islands
West Coast
Marylou Staman conducts green sea turtle surveys at Lalo (French Frigate Shoals). Credit: NOAA Fisheries. Marylou Staman conducts green sea turtle surveys at Lalo in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. More than 90 percent of the Hawaiian green sea turtle population nests at Lalo (French Frigate Shoals). Credit: NOAA Fisheries. Taken under U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Permit #TE-72088A-3 and Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument Co-Manager’s Permit.

NOAA Fisheries solicita comentarios sobre una solicitud de permiso de pesca exento para capturar mero cabrilla en las aguas federales del Caribe estadounidense

FB24-071: Boletín Pesquerías del Caribe. Para más información, póngase en contacto: Sarah Stephenson, 727-824-5305, sarah.stephenson@noaa.gov
November 13, 2024 -
Southeast

NOAA Fisheries Seeks Comments on an Application for an Exempted Fishing Permit to Collect Red Hind in U.S. Caribbean Federal Waters

FB24-071: Caribbean Fishery Bulletin. For more information, contact: Sarah Stephenson, 727-824-5305, sarah.stephenson@noaa.gov
November 13, 2024 -
Southeast

Fifteen Years of Searching for Smalltooth Sawfish

NOAA Fisheries scientists have been studying smalltooth sawfish in South Florida since 2009. Here’s what we’ve learned so far.
November 12, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
A female scientist inserts a tag into a sawfish, with white belly up and long, toothed rostrum extended, while two other scientists hold it in the water Annsli Hilton performs surgery on a smalltooth sawfish to insert an acoustic tag to track the animal’s movement. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Reni Poston-Hymel (ESA Permit #22078, Everglades National Park Permit #0007)

New Method Provides Reliable Estimates for Bearded Seals

Collaborative research finds more cost-effective way to sample and estimate abundance of bearded seals.
November 12, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Bearded seal laying on ice on water Bearded Seal. Credit: John Jansen/NOAA Fisheries

Using Drones and Tags to Study Rice’s Whales

NOAA Fisheries and partners got an up-close look at the life of these endangered whales.
November 06, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
A whale raises its head out of the ocean's surface to breathe as a drone hovers overhead holding a bright orange tag A drone hovers over a Rice’s whale, ready to drop a suction cup tag to collect data. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Ocean Alliance (Permit #21938)

Shipboard Technique Assesses the Base of the Marine Food Web in Near Real-Time

The Rapid Zooplankton Assessment technique will more effectively support fisheries management in Alaska under an ecosystem-wide approach.
November 06, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Scientist wearing beanie hat looking at zooplankton through a microscope A fisheries scientist processes a zooplankton sample onboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Currents and Connections Post #3

Currents and Connections

Where education and science come together.
November 05, 2024 - Science Blog ,
Alaska
Sockeye salmon swimming in a river next to green trees Sockeye salmon spawning in a Wood River tributary. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Wes Larson

A Quiet Place (in the Gulf of Mexico)

Collecting Information to Restore Marine Mammals and Seabirds in the Gulf of Mexico

The Gordon Gunter crew begins the third and final leg of the Vessel Survey for Abundance and Distribution of Marine Mammals and Seabirds.
November 05, 2024 - Survey ,
Southeast
A dark grey dolphin with white on the tip of it's snout swims through deep blue water. Pantropical spotted dolphins’ snouts often have white tips. This makes it look like they are pushing ping-pong balls through the water. Credit: TerraMar Applied Sciences/Kate Sutherland (Permit #21938)