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Ocean Guardian School Helps Clean Up the Juneau Area

By NOAA Fisheries-Alaska Regional Office on Apr 23, 2022   Featured, General News, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center  

Ocean Guardian School Helps Clean Up the Juneau Area

Litter Free, Inc. is hosting their annual city-wide cleanup of public lands on Saturday, April 30 Montessori Borealis Cleans Up Gastineau Channel Students from one of NOAA’s Ocean Guardian Schools in Juneau, Alaska, recently rolled up their sleeves in observance of Earth Day. Children in grades 7 and 8 at  Montessori Borealis completed a Youth […]

Using eDNA to Monitor Alaskan Waters for Invasive European Green Crabs

By NOAA Fisheries-Alaska Regional Office on Dec 3, 2020   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center  

Using eDNA to Monitor Alaskan Waters for Invasive European Green Crabs

Natural resource managers in British Columbia discovered several adult male and female European green crabs on Haida Gwaii this past July. Alarm bells immediately went off for biologists in Alaska.  The archipelago of Haida Gwaii, off the coast of Prince Rupert in British Columbia, is very close to Alaska. The July discovery is the closest confirmed finding […]

NOAA Fisheries Declares Unusual Mortality Event Due to Elevated Strandings of Ice Seals in the Arctic

By NOAA Fisheries-Alaska Regional Office on Sep 13, 2019   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center  

NOAA Fisheries Declares Unusual Mortality Event Due to Elevated Strandings of Ice Seals in the Arctic

A dead seal found on a beach near Kotzebue, Alaska. Credit: NPS/Raime Fronstin NOAA is declaring an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) for bearded, ringed, and spotted seals in the Bering and Chukchi seas. From June 1, 2018 to present there have been reports of 282 dead seals, with 119 stranded seals in 2018 and 163 in 2019. The increase […]

Pacific Halibut Season to Open March 15 in Alaska

By NOAA Fisheries-Alaska Regional Office on Mar 14, 2019   At Sea, Featured, State  

Pacific Halibut Season to Open March 15 in Alaska

  NOAA announces 2019 charter and commercial halibut management measures Pacific halibut season opens Friday, March 15 statewide in Alaska, according to a final rule just posted in the Federal Register by NOAA Fisheries. The regulations, adopted at the annual meeting of the International Pacific Halibut Commission February 1, go into effect immediately.   The United States […]

Two Alaskans Postpone Thanksgiving to Rescue Whale Near Prince of Wales Island

By NOAA Fisheries-Alaska Regional Office on Nov 23, 2018   Featured, NOAA Fisheries and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Southeast Alaska  

Two Alaskans Postpone Thanksgiving to Rescue Whale Near Prince of Wales Island

Members of NOAA’s North Pacific Large Whale Entanglement Response Team are thankful for Wednesday’s freeing of an entangled humpback whale in Sarkar Cove, north of Naukati on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska. NOAA received word of the possibly life-threatening entanglement on Tuesday, November 20. Dr. Fred Sharpe, an experienced member of the team and research […]



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