La Jolla, CASanta Cruz, CAPacific Grove, CA
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The Commerce Department has announced the appointment of 21 members to the eight regional fishery m... more>
NOAA Fisheries Service has released its annual report on the status of U.S. fish stocks, noting tha... more>
A survey completed by NOAA Fisheries Service personnel found cans and pouches of tuna sold in super... more>
Mary Yoklavich and Rick Starr received a grant from the California Ocean Protection Council to continue baseline surveys of fish species and habitats in and around new marine protected areas. more>
The new NOAA Fisheries facility in La Jolla has received a design award from the San Diego chapter ... more>
There's still time to see a free art exhibit at San Diego International Airport that showcases scie... more>
NOAA’s Fisheries Service is seeking comment on a proposed rule that requires anglers and spearfishe... more>
A report released by Southwest Fisheries Science Center on June 4, 2008 documents increased abundan... more>
NOAA’s Fisheries Service today outlined a plan to establish annual catch limits designed to help re... more>
In two recent publications, researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SWFSC’s Fisheries... more>
Humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific have increased to almost 20,000, the largest the popula... more>
NOAA’s Fisheries Service announced today that it will honor seven people and two organizations for ... more>
Are sightings of skinny gray whales in lagoons of Baja California in 2007 signs of an impact of climate change on this population? more>
NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries announced today it is offering “Ocean Guardian” grants... more>
NOAA Fisheries Service’s Office of Law Enforcement (OLE) is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for i... more>
The Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office has settled a civil lawsuit against Christopher R... more>
A federal grand jury in Oakland has indicted a San Francisco man and his corporation with four coun... more>
The Fisheries Ecology Division’s Groundfish Analysis Team completed work on a California commercial landings database covering 1931 to 2007, forming one of the longest detailed catch records in the United States. more>
The 2008 National Wetlands Awards winners have been selected. Click here to learn about this year's... more>
SWFSC scientists have published a paper that identifies a spatial pattern in the probability of ear... more>
A newly published paper by SWFSC scientists describes management by the Commission for the Conserva... more>
NOAA Fisheries Service is formally accepting a petition from the Cowlitz Indian Tribe to list eulac... more>
NOAA scientists are reviewing unusual environmental conditions in the Pacific Ocean as the likely c... more>
SWFSC’s Mary Yoklavich and Tara Anderson have won the NMFS 2007 Fishery Bulletin Best Paper Award for their article describing the response of fishes to demersal habitats at spatial scales ranging from centimeters to kilometers. more>
A proposed new building for the NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla was the subject... more>
NOAA’s Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary advises beachgoers against interacting with... more>
U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced that William Lester Johnsen, age 37, of Santa Cruz, C... more>
The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSRA) contains severa... more>
The international pact to save dolphins from being caught in tuna nets has reached its tenth annive... more>
The Fisheries Ecology Division co-hosted the Fifteenth Western Groundfish Conference, a meeting of over 200 participants representing state and federal fishery agencies, regional management councils, universities, conservation groups, and fishing and other marine industries. more>
Southwest Fisheries Science Center's Turtle Program has had serveral articles featuring loggerhead ... more>
After completing a status review of black abalone, NOAA Fisheries has proposed listing the species ... more>
An article in National Geographic News documented the 12,774-mile journey of a leatherback sea turt... more>
An international research team, including biologists from NOAA’s Fisheries Service Southwest Fisher... more>
Fisheries Ecology Division scientist Steve Lindley and colleagues have published a paper describing extensive migrations of green sturgeon through the coastal waters between California and southeast Alaska. more>
Download the latest addition to the Southwest Fisheries Science Center series of screensavers. Thes... more>
NOAA has awarded $1.17 million in grants nationally to 14 community-based marine debris prevention ... more>
Watch the video from the launch of the NOAA Fisheries Survey Vessel (FSV), Pisces, in Moss Point, M... more>
2008 NOAA Ocean Satellite Data Course Announced - March 24-26, 2008 - Cooperative Institute ... more>
NOAA Fisheries established the Sustainable Fisheries Leadership Awards Program to annually recogniz... more>
The Fisheries Ecology Division conducted two weeks of rockfish research at several marine protected areas along the California coast including Cordell Bank and Monterey Bay. more>
Coho salmon surveys conducted in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties suggest close to total failure for this year class in the southern part of the endangered Central California Coast Coho Salmon Evolutionarily Significant Unit. more>
NOAA Fisheries has published a final rule to implement daily bag limits for sport-caught Pacific al... more>
An article in Fisheries (September 2007) establishes the southern range limit of coho salmon at Santa Cruz County, a finding relevant to both Federal and state ESA lawsuits. more>
“The Jurassic Journey,” a film which documents NOAA Fisheries Service’s Southwest Fisheries Science... more>
NOAA Fisheries' work with the National Geographic Crittercam project was recently highlighted in a ... more>
The Fisheries Ecology Division completed a collaborative survey of green sturgeon abundance in the Rogue River, Oregon, using sonar verified by traditional capture-mark-recapture methods. more>
NOAA’s National Ocean Service has announced the availability of the updated Elkhorn Slough National... more>
The SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division will be co-hosting the Fifteenth Western Groundfish Conference in Santa Cruz, February 4-8, 2008. more>
The Fisheries Ecology Division is conducting a 43-day cruise surveying fishes, habitats, and marine debris on the seafloor in and around eight newly designated Marine Protected Areas off the central California coast. more>
