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Fall-run Chinook salmon migrate to California's Central Valley rivers to spawn. Photo by Miles Daniels

NOAA says $123 million coming for six ‘fishery resource disasters’

Water quality data from the Mississippi River watershed, like this collection of field parameters recorded at the Vicksburg, Miss., are used to compile NOAA's annual estimate of "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. Geological Survey photo/Nick Barsott

NOAA Gulf hypoxia 2026 forecast

On-demand fishing gear systems were tested in Jonesport, Maine, using the Maine Department of Marine Resources gear library. Photo courtesy of NOAA Fisheries

Consumers would pay more for lobster caught with ropeless gear, study finds

A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater helicopter crew medevaced an ailing fisherman from a vessel 92 miles offshore Brunswick, Georgia. Coast Guard photo.

Fisherman medevaced off Georgia coast

Initially established under President Bush in 2009, the no-fishing zone around Wake, Johnston and Jarvis in the Pacific Islands Heritage Monument was extended to 200 miles by President Obama in 2014. Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council gra

Trump moves to reopen Pacific remote waters for fishing

Mace, Southern legislators back ‘shrimp honesty’ act

The Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act of 2025 would continue funding for the community-based commission that supports marine habitat restoration across the Northwest Straits region of Puget Sound. Shutterstock photo.

House passes bill to reauthorize Northwest Straits Commission

Station Papa in Gulf of Alaska. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Loss of ocean monitoring could create fisheries blind spot

A joint NOAA and Coast Guard operation has restored navigation markers in Alaska's Bechevin Bay ahead of the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon season opener, after near-record winter ice destroyed 28 of the channel's 29 buoys. NOAA photo.

NOAA, Coast Guard reopen critical Alaska passage before Bristol Bay opener

Hurricane Erin was the first major hurricane of the 2025 Atlantic season and strengthened to a Category 4 storm with sustained winds of 130 mph. NOAA photo.

NOAA predicts ‘below normal’ 2026 Atlantic hurricane season