NOAA-Sponsored Scientists First to Map Offshore San Andreas Fault and Associated Ecosystems

For the first time, scientists are using advanced technology and an innovative vessel to study, image, and map the unexplored offshore Northern San Andreas Fault from north of San Francisco to its termination at the junction of three tectonic plates off Mendocino, Calif....

Resource Restoration Planning Process Begins for BP/Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

The Department of the Interior, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the co-trustees for natural resources affected by the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill announced today they have started the injury assessment and restoration planning phase of the Natural Resource Damage Assessment....

NOAA Strategy for Future Reopenings

NOAA's Fisheries Service first prohibited commercial and recreational fishing in federal waters impacted by the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill as a seafood safety measure in early May. The closed area was 88,522 square miles or 37 percent of the Gulf of Mexico federal waters at its largest and now after six reopenings is 31,915 square miles or 13...

NOAA and Partners: Decades of Research Find 'Unprecedented' Change in Lake Michigan

The complex network of predators and prey that inhabit Lake Michigan has changed so drastically in recent decades that future trends for the food web are murky, according to scientists at the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab (GLERL), the NOAA Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), and other academic...

Fisheries Law Enforcement Updates

Announcing Fisheries Law Enforcement Complaint e-Hotline and NOAA Proposed Policy on Prohibited and Authorized Uses of the Asset Forfeiture Fund....