Highlights Our celebration of National Seafood Month would not be complete without highlighting a special source of seafood: the fish we catch ourselves! A dinner featuring your own catch puts a delicious capstone on an exciting day on the water. We’ve compiled a few suggested preparations for popular catches from each region. |
 NOAA Fisheries and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management have developed a new framework for monitoring underwater sounds. Published today in Frontiers in Marine Science, the guidelines are designed to help safeguard marine resources as wind energy development expands in U.S. waters. |
 Scientific review groups advise NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the status of marine mammal stocks under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. They collectively serve as independent advisors and provide their expert review and recommendations through participation in the groups. We’re committed to ensuring that these groups have the expertise needed to provide meaningful reviews of our marine mammal stock assessment reports and any other information needing review. Please submit your nominations by November 5, 2021. |
 Scientists have collected genetic material from the beluga whale that was first sighted in Puget Sound in early October. It indicates that the whale is likely from a large population of beluga whales in the Beaufort Sea, part of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska. |
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Alaska Each year NOAA Fisheries scientists collaborate with fishing industry partners to develop a deployment plan for the Alaska fishing fleet. The challenge is to assign observers and electronic monitoring to vessels and processing plants in a way that gathers statistically reliable data while remaining cost-effective. Alaska Fisheries Science Center scientists are meeting with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to set a deployment plan for 2022—and beyond. |
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West Coast Seabird biologists from the Southwest Fisheries Science Center recently obtained video of a group of chinstrap penguins as they went to sea in search of food. They discovered that these birds may stick tightly together for several hours while hunting for prey. The videographers weren’t the biologists but the penguins themselves. |
 The whale known as L47 was born in 1974, and over the years she contributed again and again to the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales, giving birth to seven calves. But of those seven only three survived, which reflects the underlying problem facing the endangered orca population: many calves do not make it to an age when they can start reproducing. |
 Deepwater rockfish reeled quickly to the surface often emerge from the water with eyes and organs bulging due to the sudden change in pressure, a condition known as barotrauma. New research indicates that if fishermen return fish to their natural depths quickly, their bodies return to normal and they can survive any ill effects. |
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Pacific Islands A NOAA-supported project seeks to build a market for the non-native fish taʻape, or bluestripe snapper. This abundant and delicious fish could soon spread across the restaurants and seafood markets of Hawaiʻi—just as it had previously spread across the state’s reefs. |
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Southeast Keenan Carpenter has always loved being on the water. Growing up in Florida, he dreamed of a pro fishing career. But as he moved through his studies in marine sciences at Jacksonville University, he found another way to channel his affinity for fishing and his background in sciences—as an observer for NOAA Fisheries. |
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New England/Mid-Atlantic In celebration of our 150th anniversary, we are highlighting people who helped build the foundation of fisheries and marine science. Meet Lionel A. Walford, marine biologist, first director of the NOAA Fisheries laboratory at Sandy Hook, New Jersey. |
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