Fishing News
The latest news releases from NOAA - the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced six new Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) awards totaling $23.6 million over five years to research institutions, from Honolulu, Hawaii to Boston, Mass., to improve the nation’s ability to anticipate and adapt to climate variability and change....
NOAA today announced plans to implement a new information technology business model designed to boost efficiency, reduce costs and make better use of taxpayer dollars. Called NOAALink, the model draws upon the innovation and expertise of America’s small businesses to standardize information technologies and solutions across the agency and ensure b...
NOAA's Fisheries Service announced today that recreational red snapper fishing in the Gulf of Mexico will reopen for an added season to allow fishermen to catch the quota they did not reach because a portion of the Gulf was closed due to the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill....
NOAA today reopened to commercial and recreational fishing 7,970 square miles of Gulf waters along the southern boundary of the federal closed area. This is the sixth reopening in federal waters since July 22....
NOAA has awarded a team of researchers, led by the Smithsonian Institution, $634,047 as part of a planned five-year grant, estimated at nearly $1.6 million, to predict the impact of hypoxia on commercially and ecologically important finfish and oysters living in the shallow waters of the Chesapeake Bay....