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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…
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…
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…
