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Did you know that oyster reefs create important habitat for hundreds of species? Oysters are also a crucial component of global ocean health. Learn more about how National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) works to protect and restore oyster habitat. >> read more …
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary on Wednesday announced the successful digital acoustic tagging of 14 sei whales in waters offshore Massachusetts. >> read more …
Because of climate change, marine species are moving towards cooler waters. Now you can see these changes like never before.
NOAA Fisheries released the 2017 National Report of Marine Mammal Strandings in the United States. Marine mammals strand for a variety of reasons, and NOAA Fisheries tracks this data to monitor threats to wild marine mammal populations. >> read more …
Since January 1, 2019, elevated gray whale strandings have occurred along the west coast of North America from Mexico through Alaska. This event has been declared an Unusual Mortality Event (UME). >> read more …
On June 25, NOAA Fisheries Service received a report of a North Atlantic right whale carcass floating off the coast of New Jersey. [US]. The whale has been identified as the calf of Catalog #3560. An evaluation of the calf’s wounds during necropsy show the 7-month old, male right whale was injured by at least two separate vessel collisions.
The endangered beluga whales living in Alaska’s Cook Inlet are still declining in number, despite protections put in place 20 years ago and the adoption of a recovery plan in 2016. >> read more …
The Utqiaġvik-based aerial team is continuing their surveys in the eastern Chukchi Sea. On a survey in late July, the team saw a subarctic whale species farther north in the Pacific Arctic than it had ever been seen before! >> read more …
ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) reported the northernmost sightings of fin and humpback whales during an aerial survey on July 27. >> read more …
The new season of the Aerial Surveys of Arctic Marine Mammals (ASAMM) has started!! The team assembled in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) and began surveying the Chukchi Sea off the north slope of Alaska right away. >> read more …