Using new information, NOAA Fisheries expands critical habitat for endangered North Atlantic right whales to cover its northeast feeding areas in the Gulf of Maine/Georges Bank region and southeast calving grounds from North Carolina to Florida.
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The Secretary of Commerce has approved a fishery management plan amendment to reduce halibut bycatch in four sectors of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands groundfish fisheries.
The call came in on a Thursday afternoon in August: a Cook Inlet beluga whale had been spotted, stranded on the mudflats south of Anchorage, Alaska.
Once a stranded beluga is reported to NOAA Fisheries, biologists spring into action to coordinate a res
NOAA Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Fisheries and U.S. Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission releases statement regarding Japan.
NOAA announces the U.S. State Department is appointing two alternate U.S. commissioners to the International Pacific Halibut Commission, to serve on an interim basis until Presidential appointments are made.