News and Announcements | NOAA Fisheries

Cold Water Connection Campaign Reopens Rivers for Olympic Peninsula Salmon and Steelhead

With $19 million in NOAA funds, nonprofit and tribal partners plan to remove 17 barriers blocking fish passage on critical spawning rivers originating in Olympic National Park, Washington.

February 21, 2024 - Feature Story ,

West Coast

Washington coast coho migration (Photo: Paul Jeffrey/Wild Salmon Center)

White House National Science and Technology Council Unveils New Aquaculture Plan, First in 40 Years

Public invited to comment on the National Aquaculture Development Plan through April 5, 2024.

February 15, 2024 - Feature Story ,

National

Two men spray baskets of oysters on a boat.

Oyster growers harvest farmed shellfish from the Damariscotta River in Maine. NOAA has awarded several grants to small businesses working to develop new tools to advance sustainable U.S. aquaculture. (Image credit: C. Katalinas/ Maine Sea Grant)

Cracking the Code: Scientists Use DNA to Examine Differences between Hatchery and Wild Chinook Salmon in Southeast Alaska

Hatchery-reared salmon show genetic differences from wild populations in only a few generations, but those differences vary among hatcheries.

February 14, 2024 - Feature Story ,

Alaska

Large school of fish swimming in greenish water

Public Input Helps Improve our Understanding of Marine Ecological Relationships in Alaska

Critical links identified between young pollock survival and changes in habitat and prey availability over a 60-year timeframe.

February 13, 2024 - Feature Story ,

Alaska

food web for Bering Sea fish and other species, graphic showing connections between species

This is a path diagram for the Bering Sea and Aleutians Islands marine ecosystem. It shows linkages between ecosystem variables. Arrows correspond to suspected relationships. An arrow pointing from X to Y indicates that a change in X is estimated to cause a change in Y. The number next to each arrow shows the estimated magnitude of the change (red arrows indicate a negative change and blue arrows indicate a positive change).

Why We Love Farmed Seafood

This Valentine’s Day, NOAA experts share their love stories with aquaculture.

February 13, 2024 - News ,

National

Four people squat on a gravel driveway eating plates of clams cooked on a propane burner.

Island Creek Oyster staff enjoying driveway clams, (Credit: Island Creek Oysters.)

Scientists Identify Ways to Account for Effects of Climate Change on Fish Stock Estimates

Thirty years of larval fish data prove essential for development of a new approach to enhance stock assessment accuracy.

February 08, 2024 - Feature Story ,

Alaska

Top image is a larval pollock, bottom image is an adult pollock

Larval and adult walleye pollock. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

60 Years of Science on the Atlantic

The Northeast Bottom Trawl survey reached a major milestone when it turned 60 years old in fall 2023. Learn how this survey is conducted and how it informs science and management in the Atlantic.

February 01, 2024 - Podcast ,

New England/Mid-Atlantic

Survey tow net is hauled up with catch for sorting and processing

After each survey tow, the net is retrieved and the catch is emptied into a hopper where a series of conveyors move the catch to the sorting and processing area aboard the NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow. There, scientists sort the catch and collect data and biological samples. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jessica Blaylock

10 Projects Will Support Urban Fish Restoration around Portland, Oregon

With $3.8 million in funding from NOAA’s Office of Habitat Conservation, the Clackamas Partnership is removing fish passage barriers and restoring habitat to benefit threatened Chinook salmon and steelhead.

February 01, 2024 - Feature Story ,

West Coast