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Extent of four seaweed populations farther west than previously thought.

Our research supports NOAA Fisheries’ stewardship mission to protect and provide sustainable use of Alaska living marine resources. In doing so, we help provide jobs, strong local economies, coastal resiliency, and food security for coastal and Alaska Native communities, and the nation. We study whales, seals, sea lions, fish, crabs, zooplankton, and ecosystems in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, Chukchi Sea, and Beaufort Sea. Combined, these five marine ecosystems span nearly 1.5 million square miles, an area larger than the state of California. Sixty percent of U.S. seafood comes from these highly productive waters.

An international team of biologists is setting out into some of the roughest waters in the North Pacific Ocean in the middle of winter to try to solve the fundamental mystery of Pacific salmon: What determines whether they live or die?

Progress made in understanding what this could mean for Alaska’s second most valuable Groundfish fishery.

A NOAA Fisheries partnership is developing imaging technology for drones that could significantly reduce cost, risk, and disturbance in marine mammal surveys.

NOAA says actions resulted in a safe, deliberate assessment and rescue of entangled humpback whale.

A new study shows how climate and fishing are changing pollock spawning time, and how changes in spawning time could affect fisheries in the future.

The following is the first feature in a multi-part series about NOAA Fisheries Partnerships in Alaska. NOAA Fisheries is strengthening relationships and building partnerships with the commercial fishing industry, environmental community, academia and private businesses to broaden our expertise and maximize agency resources to better fulfill our scientific and management mission of monitoring, protecting and sustaining Alaska’s valuable natural marine resources. Special thanks to Ben Shouse, Lenfest Ocean Program, Jeremy Sterling, NOAA Fisheries/Alaska Fisheries Science Center, and Ivonne Ortiz, the University of Washington’s Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) for pulling this feature together.

Humpback was immobilized much like a dog on a leash.

Finding the North Pacific right whale.