NOAA Fisheries maintains numerous fishery science
centers and laboratories located around the U.S.
These science centers are the National Marine Fisheries
Service's research centers which generate the
scientific information necessary for the conservation,
management, and utilization of the region's living
marine resources.
These science centers seek to better understand
living marine resources and their ecosystems to assist
resource managers in making sound decisions that
build sustainable fisheries, recover endangered and
threatened species, and sustain healthy coasts.
Pacific
Islands Fisheries Science Center