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Press Release Archive - 2008
December
12/31/08
High Numbers of Right Whales Seen in Gulf of Maine NOAA Researchers Identify Wintering Ground and Potential Breeding Ground
(PDF)
12/27/08
NOAA and Partners Attempt Disentanglement of Right Whale off Florida
(PDF)
12/23/08
NOAA Determines Ribbon Seals Should Not be Listed as Endangered
(PDF)
12/23/08
NOAA to Create Saltwater Angler Registry in 2010
(PDF)
12/22/08
NOAA Proposes Rule to Reduce Charter Halibut Catch
(PDF)
12/08/08
Ships Must Slow Down to Protect North Atlantic Right Whales
(PDF)
12/04/08
NOAA Charges Florida Dive Charter Businesses for Fishing Without Federal Permits
(PDF)
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)
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