Press Release Archive - 2008

November

• 11/25/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Releases an Additional $70 Million in Disaster Aid to West Coast Salmon Fishing Industry  (PDF)
• 11/25/08 Seattle Group to Pay Nearly $450,000 Settlement for Alaska Fisheries Violations  (PDF)
• 11/24/08 United States Pushes for Strong Measures to Protect Bluefin Tuna  (PDF)
• 11/20/08 NOAA Finds Decline in Pollock; Recommends Catch Cut to Council  (PDF)
• 11/18/08 NOAA Announces Up to $2 Million for Sockeye Salmon Disaster Affecting Puget Sound Fishermen   (PDF)
• 11/18/08 NOAA Announces Up to $5 Million for Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire for Red Tide Disaster   (PDF)
• 11/18/08 NOAA Announces Up to $20 Million for Blue Crab Disaster in Chesapeake Bay  (PDF)
• 11/18/08 NOAA Announces Up to $47 Million for Hurricane Damage to Fisheries in Louisiana and Texas  (PDF)
• 11/18/08 NOAA Biological Opinion on Pesticides Recommends Buffers to Protect Salmon  (PDF)
• 11/14/08 Commerce Secretary Determines Sockeye Salmon Disaster Affecting Puget Sound Fishermen  (PDF)
• 11/14/08 Commerce Secretary Determines Red Tide Disaster in Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire  (PDF)
• 11/12/08 NOAA Advises Mariners to Watch for Migrating Right Whales  (PDF)

October

• 10/28/08 NOAA Issues Stronger Protections for Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals in Southeast United States  (PDF)
• 10/24/08 NOAA to Monitor, Not Move, Shrewsbury/Navesink Dolphins  (PDF)
• 10/20/08 NOAA and NSF Commission National Study of Ocean Acidification (PDF)
• 10/20/08 NOAA Completes White Abalone Recovery Plan (PDF)
• 10/17/08 NOAA Lists Cook Inlet Beluga Whales as Endangered (PDF)
• 10/14/08 NOAA Seeks Comments on Measures to Protect Marine Mammals as Navy Conducts Sonar Operations off the Coast of Southern California (PDF)
• 10/14/08 NOAA Seeks Comments on Measures to Protect Marine Mammals (PDF)
• 10/08/08 Ship Strike Reduction Rule Aims to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales (PDF)

September

• 09/29/08 Report to Congress Forecasts Shortage of Marine Scientists (PDF)
• 09/25/08 NOAA: Cook Inlet Beluga Population Holds Steady from 2007 (PDF)
• 09/24/08 NOAA Seeks Comment on Recovery Plan for Middle Columbia River Steelhead (PDF)
• 09/23/08 Commerce Secretary Determines Blue Crab Disaster in Chesapeake Bay (PDF)
• 09/17/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Releases Disaster Aid to West Coast Salmon Fishing Industry (PDF)
• 09/17/08 Commerce Secretary Gutierrez Declares Fishery Resource Disaster for Gulf of Mexico (PDF)
• 09/05/08 NOAA Proposes Critical Habitat for Southern Population of North American Green Sturgeon (PDF)
• 09/02/08 Federal Agencies to Propose Expanding Gulf of Maine Atlantic Salmon Population Protected by Endangered Species Listing (PDF)

August

• 08/29/08 East Coast Trap/Pot Fishermen Get More Time to Convert to Sinking Groundline (PDF)
• 08/29/08 Commerce Department Re-Appoints Benigno Sablan to Fishery Management Council   (PDF)
• 08/25/08 NOAA Files Final Environmental Impact Statement on Ship Strike Reduction Measures   (PDF)
• 08/19/08 NOAA Honors Leader of New Hampshire Estuarine Reserve With Dr. Nancy Foster Award   (PDF)
• 08/07/08 NOAA’s Fisheries Service Protects Bering Sea Habitat (PDF)
• 08/05/08 Scientists Use Naval Exercises to Learn More About How Marine Mammals React to Sonar (PDF)
• 08/04/08"Dam Cam" to Capture Removal of New Hampshire’s Merrimack Village Dam (PDF)

July

• 07/29/08 Report: Offshore Aquaculture Would Benefit U.S. Economy (PDF)
• 07/28/08 Report: Number of Blue Crabs in Bay Remains Below Long-Term Average (PDF)
• 07/17/08 Recreational Catch Down Slightly, Remains Second Highest Catch in Decade (PDF)
• 07/17/08 Seafood Consumption Declines Slightly in 2007 (PDF)
• 07/17/08 Dutch Harbor-Unalaska, Alaska, and New Bedford, Mass. Remain Top Fishing Ports (PDF)
• 07/16/08 NOAA Open River Initiative Helps Open 100-Year Old Dam on the Rogue River (PDF)
• 07/11/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Issues Biological Opinion to Protect Willamette Basin Salmon and Steelhead (PDF)
• 07/11/08 NOAA Joins with Great Lakes Commission to Restore Muskegon Lake (PDF)
• 07/01/08 NOAA and Partners Free Juvenile Dolphin from Life-Threatening Debris (PDF)
• 07/01/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Encourages Applicants for Advisory Panel (PDF)

June

• 06/27/08 Commerce Announces 2008 Ocean Fishery Council Appointments (PDF)
• 06/27/08 NOAA: Seven Stocks Removed from Overfishing List, None Added (PDF)
• 06/26/08 Statement from Rebecca Lent, U.S. Commissioner to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (PDF)
• 06/24/08 NOAA Administrator Applauds Senate Bill to Combat Illegal Fishing (PDF)
• 06/23/08 NOAA Seeks Comments on Measures to Protect Marine Mammals as Navy Conducts Sonar Operations off Hawaiian Islands (PDF)
• 06/20/08 NOAA Builds Framework for Future Beluga Hunts in Cook Inlet (PDF)
• 06/19/08 NOAA Issues Rule to Prevent Overfishing of Atlantic Sharks (PDF)
• 06/11/08 NOAA Proposes Rule to Require Saltwater Angler Registration (PDF)
• 06/06/08 NOAA Confirms Caribbean Monk Seal Extinct (PDF)
• 06/06/08 NOAA Study Shows Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean Dolphin Populations Improving (PDF)
• 06/05/08 NOAA Outlines Annual Catch Limits to End Overfishing (PDF)
• 06/04/08 East Coast Trap/Pot Fishermen May Get More Time to Convert to Sinking Groundline (PDF)
• 06/03/08 NOAA Teams Up With Local Experts to Restore Alabama Shorelines (PDF)

May

• 05/30/08 Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the Northwest Atlantic Loggerhead Sea Turtle Available for Review (PDF)
• 05/23/08 NOAA Approves Recreational Management Measures For Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass (PDF)
• 05/23/08 NOAA Awards Fishery Economic Assistance Grant to Commonwealth of Massachusetts (PDF)
• 05/23/08 NOAA Reduces Halibut Catch for Southeast Alaska Charter Anglers to Protect Stock (PDF)
• 05/22/08 New Study Finds Most North Pacific Humpback Whale Populations Rebounding (PDF)
• 05/21/08 NOAA Proposes Rule to Prevent Commercial Harvesting of Krill (PDF)
• 05/20/08 NOAA to Honor National Leaders in Sustainable Fisheries (PDF)
• 05/05/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Issues Far-Reaching Plans for Protecting Northwest Salmon (PDF)

April

• 04/21/08 "Fishery Failure" Declared for West Coast Salmon Fishery (PDF)
• 04/21/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Publishes Draft Recovery Plan for Washington's Lake Ozette Sockeye Salmon (PDF)
• 04/21/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Extends Decision on Cook Inlet Beluga Whale Listing (PDF)
• 04/17/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Outlines Measures to Prevent Overfishing of Sandbar and Other Sharks (PDF)
• 04/15/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Says Herring in Lynn Canal Not Endangered (PDF)
• 04/14/08 Individual Quotas Introduced in Northeast Sea Scallop Fishery (PDF)
• 04/10/08 NOAA Seeks Public Comment on Navy's Request for Marine Mammal Permit During New Ship Test (PDF)
• 04/07/08 NOAA Invests Record Funding to Clean Up Miami's Biscayne Bay (PDF)
• 04/02/08 NOAA Scientists Train African Team to be Fisheries Observers (PDF)
• 04/02/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Seeks Comments on Loggerhead Sea Turtles (PDF)

March

• 03/26/08 NOAA to Study Ice Seals for Possible Listing Under Endangered Species Act (PDF)
• 03/18/08 NOAA Says Three States Can Remove Certain Sea Lions That Threaten Protected Salmon (PDF)
• 03/17/08 NOAA Considers Case to Protect Five Puget Sound Rockfish Species (PDF)
• 03/12/08 NOAA Fisheries Service Agrees to Review Petition to Protect Smelt (PDF)
• 03/11/08 NOAA to Close New Jersey Tautog Fishery April 1 (PDF)
• 03/11/08 Maryland Charterboat Captain Settles Interference Case with NOAA (PDF)
• 03/10/08 NOAA Considers Case to Protect Five Puget Sound Rockfish Species (PDF)
• 03/06/08 Rare White Killer Whale Spotted in Alaskan Waters from NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson (PDF)
• 03/05/08 Study Shows Ocean "Deserts" are Expanding (PDF)
• 03/05/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Releases New Steller Sea Lion Recovery Plan (PDF)
• 03/03/08 Unfavorable Ocean Conditions Likely Cause of Low 2007 Salmon Returns Along West Coast (PDF)

February

• 02/25/08 NOAA Launches Seafood Facts Web Site at International Seafood Show in Boston (PDF)
• 02/22/08 NOAA Partners with New Shellfish Research Institute to Examine Ecological Effects of Growing Shellfish (PDF)
• 02/15/08 Oregon Researchers Study Widespread Areas of Low Oxygen off Northwest Coast (PDF)
• 02/11/08 NOAA Names Balsiger Acting Director for National Marine Fisheries Service (PDF)
• 02/06/08 NOAA Proposes Critical Habitat for Threatened Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals (PDF)
• 02/05/08 NOAA's Fisheries Service Lists Oregon Coast Coho for Federal Protection (PDF)

January

• 01/30/08 Landmark Dolphin Agreement Reaches 10-Year Mark (PDF)
• 01/30/08 Taking the Anxiety Out of Consuming Seafood (PDF)
• 01/17/08 NOAA Considers Ways to Handle Sea Lions That Threaten Protected Salmon (PDF)
• 01/16/08 Fishermen Will Use New Ways to Avoid Snaring Endangered Seabirds (PDF)
• 01/09/08 NOAA Determines White Marlin Not Threatened or Endangered (PDF)
• 01/07/08 NOAA Announces Appointment to North Pacific Fishery Management Council (PDF)
• 01/07/08 NOAA Awards Grants to Remove Marine Debris in California and Guam (PDF)
• 01/07/08 NOAA Awards Grants to Remove Marine Debris in Washington (PDF)
• 01/07/08 NOAA Awards Grants to Remove Marine Debris from Maryland to New Hampshire (PDF)
• 01/07/08 NOAA Awards Grants to Remove Marine Debris in Alaska (PDF)
• 01/07/08 NOAA Awards Grants in Florida to Remove Marine Debris (PDF)