Newport, Oregon is new home to NOAA's Pacific research fleet
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NEWPORT — Jack Gale lined up with dozens of others today to be the first through the gates at NOAA’s Marine Operations Center.
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Environmental Defense Fund, SMAST collaboration aims to improve closed-areas science
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — August 15, 2011 -- Scientists from UMass Dartmouth's School of Marine Science and Technology are working with their counterparts from an environmental group, the Environmental Defense Fund, to develop a better understanding of the role that closed areas play in the management of fish stocks.
SMAST's involvement with EDF is certain to raise eyebrows on the New Bedford waterfront. The environmental group's advocacy for the controversial catch share system now governing the groundfishery in New England has convinced many in the industry that the EDF agenda is hostile to commercial fishing.
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Scientist calls to end rule of NOAA
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Influential marine scientist Brian Rothschild has charged NOAA with adopting an "unnecessarily hard-line," wrong, wasteful and job-destroying interpretation of Congress' intent for managing America's fisheries.
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NOAA Scientists Link Shifting Atlantic Mackerel Distribution To Environmental Factors, Changing Climate
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NOAA scientists have found that environmental factors have changed the distribution patterns of Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus), a marine species found in waters from Cape Hatteras to Newfoundland, shifting the stock northeastward and into shallower waters. Atlantic mackerel migrate great distances on a seasonal basis to feed and spawn, and are sensitive to changes in water temperature. These findings could have significant implications for U.S. commercial and recreational mackerel fisheries that mostly occur during late winter and early spring.
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Decoding of Atlantic cod genome reveals unique immune system with implications for farmed cod
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In a study published online this week in Nature, an international team of researchers report the first complete sequence of the Atlantic cod genome and an unexpected discovery of the unique immune system of this important species.
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