Science & Data

Fishery observers are a key part of the effort to help ensure that America has sustainably harvested seafood. For Oceans Month, we asked a few to blog about being an observer, what drew them to this work, their favorite observer memories, and more.

Fishery observers are a key part of the effort to help ensure that America has sustainably harvested seafood. For Oceans Month, we asked a few to blog about being an observer, what drew them to this work, their favorite observer memories, and more.

Fishery observers are a key part of the effort to help ensure that America has sustainably harvested seafood. For Oceans Month, we asked a few to blog about being an observer, what drew them to this work, their favorite observer memories, and more.

Blog 2 of the gray seal pupping season in the Northeast. Some sampling and tagging was in store for researchers, but not until a rescue took place.

Every year scientists from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center make a trip to Muskeget Island to gather information during gray seal pupping season. This year they tried a different approach.

Poor weather did not deter the work at hand as researchers complete sampling, monitoring, and a few new research projects on the Northeast U.S. continental shelf.

Two new initiatives are underway on the fall ecosystem monitoring survey on the Northeast Shelf: looking for traces of mercury in seawater, and using eDNA to study finfish diversity.

The fall Ecosystem Monitoring Survey on the Northeast Shelf has experienced a variety of weather, and some research "firsts" for that survey.

Scientist Christine Kircun relates a tale of nature, red in tooth and claw

Research fisheries biologist Tim Sheehan has finished his 2019 Atlantic salmon tagging efforts in Greenland for the year. He and his Atlantic Salmon Federation and Fisheries and Oceans Canada collaborators started tagging salmon last month and have tagged more than 20 Atlantic salmon so far. Their goal is to better understand salmon movement and migration behaviors using special pop-off satellite and acoustic tags.