Highlights The United States and other countries from around the world tackled management challenges for Atlantic tunas and sharks at the 2021 annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. |
 Right Whale Slow Zones are currently in effect near Atlantic City, New York City, and Nantucket. We're asking all boaters to avoid areas where North Atlantic right whales have recently been seen or heard, or transit through at 10 knots or less to help protect them from vessel collisions. Click the link above to sign up for email or text notifications about the latest Right Whale Slow Zones. |
 In the coming year, NOAA Fisheries’ Marine Recreational Information Program will continue to respond to the Modern Fish Act, implement new survey and data standards, and improve its network of state, regional, and coastwide data collection programs. A complete list of the partnership’s goals, accomplishments, and priorities can be found in this implementation plan update. |
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Alaska Training artificial intelligence to detect and identify marine mammal calls from underwater acoustic recordings opens new possibilities for more cost-effective marine mammal research. |
 Pacific cod caught in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea are managed as separate stocks. But a new genetics study found that the relationship between the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska may be a bit more complicated than originally thought, requiring further study. |
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West Coast Researchers from Simon Fraser University and NOAA’s Northwest Fisheries Science Center found retreating glaciers in Alaska and British Columbia could open up new stream habitats for Pacific salmon. The findings were published today in Nature Communications. |
 Tropical tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean gained renewed protections and science-based catch levels under resolutions advocated by the United States. The measures were adopted by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission at its virtual meeting in October. The IATTC also established a framework for foreign fishing vessels to face spot inspections when they enter the port of another member nation. |
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Southeast During the 2016–2019 Southeast Deep Coral Initiative, NOAA’s Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program and partners conducted studies to better understand these ecosystems. One pilot project examined relationships between fish and deep-sea corals off the coast of Puerto Rico. |
 In the wild, corals are threatened by changing ocean conditions and stressors associated with coastal population growth, such as nutrient pollution and sedimentation. Scientists know that certain changes, such as warming ocean temperatures, threaten corals more than others. Trying to determine how and why some corals can survive these stressors is more challenging. |
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New England/Mid-Atlantic Researchers have identified 187 individual North Atlantic right whales—about 40 percent of the catalogued population—in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence during the summer. They used photographs of North Atlantic right whales collected during surveys conducted between 2015 and 2019. Many of the right whales remain in the area through the summer and autumn, feeding and socializing primarily in southern parts of the Gulf. Almost all of these whales return every year—a pattern not seen elsewhere—and stay for up to 5 months. |
 Almost every state in the United States now experiences some kind of harmful algal bloom event. Researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science are studying the physical and biological factors that are thought to cause these HABs. |
 This winter, get your craft on with these snowflake templates. Enjoy four new designs that celebrate a few past and present residents of Woods Hole Aquarium: angelfish, seals, thorny skate, and wolffish. |
 During the 2021 fall Ecosystem Monitoring (EcoMon) cruise, researchers completed 89 stations aboard NOAA Ship Pisces. They achieved near-complete coverage of the survey area from north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. They completed less than 25 percent of Georges Bank and the Gulf of Maine stations. They dropped many of these stations, which were north of Cape Cod, due to strong fall storms and fewer available sea days than originally planned. The cruise was completed in 11 days, beginning October 15 and ending October 26. |
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