Students nationwide virtually participate in Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory's 1,000th Pisces submersible dive

Nearly 500 students from more than 35 classrooms 'virtually' accompanied researchers from the University of Hawaii and NOAA's Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) on the 1,000th dive by one of the lab’s twin Pisces manned-submersibles. Since 1981, HURL researchers have spent nearly 9,000 hours underwater around the Pacific....

Department of Commerce appoints and convenes first Climate Assessment Advisory Committee meeting

Opening keynote address as delivered on April 4 by Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator as part of the First National Climate Assessment Federal Advisory Committee Meeting in Washington, DC...

NOAA announces new members of the Hydrographic Services Review Panel

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco recently appointed nine new members to the Hydrographic Services Review Panel, a federal advisory committee that gives NOAA independent advice for improving ocean and coastal navigation products, information, data and services....

New fishing hooks protect bluefin tuna in Gulf of Mexico but allow catch of yellowfin tuna and swordfish

NOAA's Fisheries Service will require commercial fishermen who fish for yellowfin tuna, swordfish and other species with longlines in the Gulf of Mexico to use a new type of hook, called a weak hook, designed to reduce the incidental catch of Atlantic bluefin tuna....

U.S. Commerce Department to deploy economic assessment teams to six northeast fishing ports

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