Celebrate National Seafood Month
The United States is recognized as a global leader in sustainable seafood for both wild-caught and farmed species. Join us for National Seafood Month 2022 and savor delicious seafood along the way.
Podcast: Aquaculture–Policy and Possibilities
Celebrate Shark Week by learning something new about sharks! Did you know scientists think sharks first appeared in the ocean around 455 million years ago?
Ensuring a Future for Seafood in a Changing Ocean: Part 1
Get a behind-the-scenes look at how scientists monitor inter-annual variability of shark populations along the Atlantic Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico.
Ensuring a Future for Seafood in a Changing Ocean: Part 2
Fisheries biologist Lisa Natanson works for the Northeast Fisheries Science Center’s Apex Predators Program, with a focus on shark ageing and reproduction.
Chefs and Farmers Partner with NOAA to Tell the Story of Seafood
Chefs are opening new channels of communication to increase our understanding of fresh seafood and cultivate food security.
Highlights
Deadline Extended: Two Habitat Restoration and Coastal Resilience Funding Opportunities Open Under Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, One Focused on Underserved Communities
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make an impact for coastal ecosystems and communities. The deadline for the funding opportunity focused on underserved communities has been extended to October 14.
Sea Grant Young Fishermen’s Career Development Projects Funding Opportunity
Sea Grant announces a funding opportunity to develop and execute local, regional, and national programs, workshops, and services to enable fishermen to enter career paths, in support of the Young Fishermen’s Development Act and other initiatives. Eligible applicants are collaborative state, tribal, local, or regionally based networks or partnerships of public or private entities. Letters of intent are required to be eligible to submit a full proposal and are due December 1.
Alaska
Sustainable Pacific Oyster Farming
Alaska’s aquatic farming industry is relatively new—it only became legal in the state in 1988. Since then, the industry has flourished and includes sustainably farmed Pacific oysters, also called the Japanese oyster, Miyagi oyster, or Pacific cupped oyster.
West Coast
Rebuilding Salmon and Steelhead in the Columbia River Basin
NOAA Fisheries, with input from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has finalized the Rebuilding Interior Columbia Basin Salmon and Steelhead report. This report identifies actions needed to rebuild salmon and steelhead populations to healthy and harvestable levels.
Team Frees Entangled Humpback Whale off Southern California Coast
From a safe distance, a local boater reported an entangled whale and a trained englement rescue team from NOAA Fisheries and SeaWorld freed the humpback whale off the coast of San Diego. It was entangled in more than 300 feet of lines and crab fishing gear.
Pacific Islands
Seafloor Mapping and Coral Reef Assessments Complete in the Mariana Archipelago
Scientists aboard the NOAA Ship Rainier return from a 5-month research mission collecting images of and mapping the seafloor, assessing coral reef health, and gathering data on the life history of deepwater snappers.
Southeast
Faces of the Southeast Fisheries Science Center
The latest interviews in this series by the Southeast Fisheries Science Center feature Director Clay Porch, larval ecologist Estrella Malca, and senior research associate Jamie Clark.
