How climate change affects U.S. indigenous coastal cultures is the focus of the First Stewards symposium that started yesterday at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
Juneau, AK – NOAA is proposing to remove the eastern Steller sea lion, currently deemed "threatened," from the list of endangered wildlife, after a status review by its biologists found the species is recovering sufficiently.
NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement announced yesterday that the owners of the Zen Restaurant in Juneau, Alaska, will pay a civil penalty of $18,000 over the next 12 months for illegally purchasing subsistence-harvested Pacific halibut in 2010, according to a settlement agreement signed on February 23.