NOAA: More Fishing, Higher Consumption Might Help Reverse Lionfish Invasion

A new study looking at how to curb the rapid growth of lionfish, an invasive species not native to the Atlantic Ocean, suggests that approximately 27 percent of mature lionfish will have to be removed monthly for one year to reduce its population growth rate to zero....

NOAA: More Actions Needed to Help Western Steller Sea Lion Recover

NOAA’s Fisheries Service says changes are needed to the areas where commercial fishermen may fish for groundfish off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands to further promote the recovery of the western population of Steller sea lions, and to be in compliance with the Endangered Species Act....

NOAA Announces Funding to Model Effects of Sea Level Rise in Northern Gulf of Mexico

NOAA has awarded $750,000 for the first year of an anticipated $3 million research investment to develop the information and tools critically needed to plan for sea level rise and other consequences of climate change along more than 300 miles of the northern Gulf of Mexico’s shoreline....

President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Scott Doney as NOAA Chief Scientist

President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Scott Doney as NOAA Chief Scientist...

Federal Science Report Details Fate of Oil from BP Spill

A third (33 percent) of the total amount of oil released in the Deepwater Horizon/BP spill was captured or mitigated by the Unified Command recovery operations, including burning, skimming, chemical dispersion and direct recovery from the wellhead, according to a federal science report released today....