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Immediate Action Needed to Save North Atlantic Right Whales

With about 400 whales left, we have an urgent conservation crisis. The United States seeks to work with Canada to take immediate action to protect this species.
July 03, 2019 - Leadership Message ,
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Lab Pulls Microscopic Details From Southern Resident Killer Whale Samples

How do you collect biological samples from a killer whale swimming through the ocean?
July 02, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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NOAA Releases 118 Florida Loggerhead Sea Turtles into the Wild

Fisheries scientists complete turtle excluder device testing.
June 20, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Three Ways We Are Restoring Sea Turtles After Deepwater Horizon

With early restoration funding NOAA and federal and state agencies are helping sea turtles recover from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
June 19, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Record Number of Leatherback Turtles Tagged in North Carolina

Thirteen leatherback turtles were sampled and tagged off Beaufort, North Carolina, in May by NOAA Fisheries Northeast and Southeast Science Center staffs and colleagues, continuing a project begun in 2017 to assess the turtles abundance, movements, behavior, and health status.
June 18, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Meet Henry Milliken, Research Fisheries Biologist

We continue our series to introduce the people who work at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Each month we feature a new "face" from the Center's five laboratories and share with you a bit about who they are, what they do at the Center, and what they enjoy doing in their spare time. Henry Milliken conducts gear research to reduce bycatch, and heads the new Populations, Ecology, and Threats Team at the Woods Hole Laboratory.
June 18, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Ocean Month 2019

Dive into our online campaigns and features during Ocean Month.
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A Continuation of Motherload: The Story of a Fertile Turtle in the Hawaiian Islands

This past March, researchers with NOAA's Marine Turtle Biology and Assessment Program located a fertile female Hawaiian green sea turtle using ultrasound, and put a satellite tag on her to see where she would migrate to lay her eggs. This is the continuation of her story.
June 14, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Sea Turtle Fingerprints Help Unlock Population Secrets

Scientists study sea turtle “fingerprints” to gather clues about their life history, mating strategies, and family groups.
June 12, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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Pilots Help Turtles Take Flight

Cold-stunned sea turtles get help from an unlikely place: the general aviation community.
June 10, 2019 - Feature Story ,
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