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  4. NOAA Fisheries Service
    12 hours ago
    Did you hear? NOAA scientists and Teacher at Sea Johanna Mendillo used sound waves to study Alaskan pollock on a pollock acoustic survey in the Bering Sea. Fish have different sized and shaped swim bladders that give off echoes from sonar signals. Learn more about how we use this cool science to locate fish—http://1.usa.gov/TvbUeW

    Images: (Left) Teacher Johanna Mendillo holding an above average pollock. (Right) Multibeam sonar on the Oscar Dyson used to locate fis hpopulations in the ocean.
    Photo: Did you hear? NOAA scientists and Teacher at Sea Johanna Mendillo used sound waves to study Alaskan pollock on a pollock acoustic survey in the Bering Sea. Fish have different sized and shaped swim bladders that give off echoes from sonar signals. Learn more about how we use this cool science to locate fish—http://1.usa.gov/TvbUeW Images: (Left) Teacher Johanna Mendillo holding an above average pollock. (Right) Multibeam sonar on the Oscar Dyson used to locate fis hpopulations in the ocean.
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  5. NOAA Fisheries Service
    16 hours ago
    Congratulations, Pacific leatherback sea turtles. California Governor Jerry Brown recently established the species as the official state marine reptile, designating October 15 as Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day. http://1.usa.gov/pDG0LC

    Credit: NOAA
    Photo: Congratulations, Pacific leatherback sea turtles. California Governor Jerry Brown recently established the species as the official state marine reptile, designating October 15 as Pacific Leatherback Sea Turtle Conservation Day. http://1.usa.gov/pDG0LC Credit: NOAA
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  6. NOAA Fisheries Service
    Tuesday
    We're making school more fun with FishWatch—our new collection of lesson plans and activities challenge high school students and their teachers to use NOAA Fisheries' www.fishwatch.gov to learn all about the science behind sustainable seafood. Come on, jump right in—http://1.usa.gov/PzFLqG
    Photo: We're making school more fun with FishWatch—our new collection of lesson plans and activities challenge high school students and their teachers to use NOAA Fisheries' www.fishwatch.gov to learn all about the science behind sustainable seafood. Come on, jump right in—http://1.usa.gov/PzFLqG
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  7. NOAA Fisheries Service shared National Ocean Service's photo.
    Tuesday
    U.S. Senator Richard B. Shelby (Ala.) joined NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Eric Schwaab (left) and NOAA National Ocean Service Assistant Administrator David Kennedy (right) in cutting the ribbon formally opening the new Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center today.
    http://go.usa.gov/Y5CC
    Photo: U.S. Senator Richard B. Shelby (Ala.) joined NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Eric Schwaab (left) and NOAA National Ocean Service Assistant Administrator David Kennedy (right) in cutting the ribbon formally opening the new Gulf of Mexico Disaster Response Center today. http://go.usa.gov/Y5CC
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  8. NOAA Fisheries Service
    Tuesday
    Not all models appear on magazine covers. Fish stock assessment models strike a completely different kind of pose—they help preserve our ocean resources and provide scientific advice to decision-makers about the current and future trends and health of a fish stock and its fishery. Learn how NOAA Fisheries scientists use these models to inform fisheries management—http://1.usa.gov/OWMZoT
    Photo: Not all models appear on magazine covers. Fish stock assessment models strike a completely different kind of pose—they help preserve our ocean resources and provide scientific advice to decision-makers about the current and future trends and health of a fish stock and its fishery. Learn how NOAA Fisheries scientists use these models to inform fisheries management—http://1.usa.gov/OWMZoT
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  9. NOAA Fisheries Service shared NOAA Teacher at Sea Program's photo.
    Monday
    Oh buoy! What's covering the bottom of the STRATUS buoy in our Photo of the Week? Find out here: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/media/photo_of_week.html
    Photo: Oh buoy! What's covering the bottom of the STRATUS buoy in our Photo of the Week? Find out here: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/media/photo_of_week.html
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  10. NOAA Fisheries Service updated their cover photo.
    Monday
    Bottlenose dolphins spotted during a survey of cetaceans in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Photo Credit: Cornelia Oedekoven.
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  11. NOAA Fisheries Service
    Monday
    National Seafood Month is here and it's whetting our appetite. How does NOAA help ensure seafood is safe and high-quality? A highly trained nose knows the answer to that question. Check it out—http://1.usa.gov/PxL5uV
    Photo: National Seafood Month is here and it's whetting our appetite. How does NOAA help ensure seafood is safe and high-quality? A highly trained nose knows the answer to that question. Check it out—http://1.usa.gov/PxL5uV
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  12. NOAA Fisheries Service
    Monday
    We love oysters—they provide needed habitat for fish and shellfish, and stabilize marine habitat and protect shorelines. This weekend, NOAA Fisheries attended The Wellfleet Oyster Festival in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. NOAA Fisher...
    ies and Oyster Festival organizers successfully led recycling efforts of shells consumed at the festivals in 2009, 2010, and 2011 for projects to improve water quality and create habitat. http://bit.ly/5UPjJ
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    Photo: We love oysters—they provide needed habitat for fish and shellfish, and stabilize marine habitat and protect shorelines. This weekend, NOAA Fisheries attended The Wellfleet Oyster Festival in Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. NOAA Fisheries and Oyster Festival organizers successfully led recycling efforts of shells consumed at the festivals in 2009, 2010, and 2011 for projects to improve water quality and create habitat. http://bit.ly/5UPjJ
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  13. NOAA Fisheries Service shared NOAA Fisheries Northwest's photo.
    October 12
    Did you know that some Pacific salmon migrate hundreds of miles when they return home to spawn? If only they could earn frequent swimmer rewards. http://1.usa.gov/UVZ4Hr
    Did you know that some Pacific salmon migrate hundreds of miles when they return home to spawn? If only they could earn frequent swimmer rewards!

    Find out more about salmon migration at http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/publications/salmon-saturdays.cfm
    Photo: Did you know that some Pacific salmon migrate hundreds of miles when they return home to spawn? If only they could earn frequent swimmer rewards! Find out more about salmon migration at http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/publications/salmon-saturdays.cfm
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  14. NOAA Fisheries Service shared NOAA Teacher at Sea Program's photo.
    October 12
    Election season is upon us, and here at Teacher at Sea, we are taking our own poll. You get to decide on what fish we feature as our Photo of the Week on November 6th. So put down your party line and pick up your fishing line because we want YOUR vote! Vote Here: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/VoteNow/
    Photo: Election season is upon us, and here at Teacher at Sea, we are taking our own poll. You get to decide on what fish we feature as our Photo of the Week on November 6th. So put down your party line and pick up your fishing line because we want YOUR vote! Vote Here: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/VoteNow/
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  16. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 11
    What do you think—Goldilocks and the three monkfish? We want to read your captions, too. Take a stab at your own below. http://1.usa.gov/NV7PNI
    Photo: What do you think—Goldilocks and the three monkfish? We want to read your captions, too. Take a stab at your own below. http://1.usa.gov/NV7PNI
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  17. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 11
    Do you know where your seafood comes from? You might be surprised to learn that half the seafood we eat is farm-raised, and about 91 percent of our seafood is imported. Find out more about the top 10 seafoods Americans eat. http://1.usa.gov/Qk7Oqb
    Photo: Do you know where your seafood comes from? You might be surprised to learn that half the seafood we eat is farm-raised, and about 91 percent of our seafood is imported. Find out more about the top 10 seafoods Americans eat. http://1.usa.gov/Qk7Oqb
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  18. NOAA Fisheries Service shared NOAA Teacher at Sea Program's photo.
    October 10
    Want the high res version of our Photo of the Week? It's all yours. Just visit http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/media/photo_of_week.html
    Photo: Want the high res version of our Photo of the Week? It's all yours. Just visit http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/media/photo_of_week.html
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  19. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 9
    NOAA Fisheries welcomes Dr. Rick Methot in his new role as the first NOAA Science Advisor for Stock Assessments. Dr. Richard Merrick, NOAA Fisheries Chief Science Advisor, notes that “Rick developed many of the cutting edge approaches we us...
    e for stock assessments right now and, by providing him the freedom to focus on continuing this research, I have every confidence he will lift our science to a whole new level through his research into new methodologies and technologies.” http://1.usa.gov/RNJ9wq
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    Photo: NOAA Fisheries welcomes Dr. Rick Methot in his new role as the first NOAA Science Advisor for Stock Assessments. Dr. Richard Merrick, NOAA Fisheries Chief Science Advisor, notes that “Rick developed many of the cutting edge approaches we use for stock assessments right now and, by providing him the freedom to focus on continuing this research, I have every confidence he will lift our science to a whole new level through his research into new methodologies and technologies.” http://1.usa.gov/RNJ9wq
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  20. NOAA Fisheries Service updated their cover photo.
    October 9
    NOAA Fisheries marine mammal research takes flight with aerial drones.
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  21. NOAA Fisheries Service shared NOAA Teacher at Sea Program's photo.
    October 9
    Every day holds new discoveries. See what a NOAA Teacher at Sea found while mapping the ocean floor: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2009/hedge/hedge_log12.pdf
    #ColumbusDay is all about exploration. To celebrate, check out this new discovery made by a Teacher at Sea while she was mapping the ocean floor: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2009/hedge/hedge_log12.pdf
    Photo: #ColumbusDay is all about exploration. To celebrate, check out this new discovery made by a Teacher at Sea while she was mapping the ocean floor: http://teacheratsea.noaa.gov/2009/hedge/hedge_log12.pdf
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  22. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 8
    If you were Columbus, which would you bring home to the Queen? American Lobster (left) http://1.usa.gov/Obj0Yy or American Red Snapper (right) http://1.usa.gov/Obj3Ug?
    Photo: If you were Columbus, which would you bring home to the Queen? American Lobster (left) http://1.usa.gov/Obj0Yy or American Red Snapper (right) http://1.usa.gov/Obj3Ug?
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  24. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 6
    Click "like" if you think that's one cute family portrait: http://1.usa.gov/acpU0X
    Photo: Click "like" if you think that's one cute family portrait: http://1.usa.gov/acpU0X
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  25. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 5
    Have a hankering for seafood this weekend? Choosing sustainable seafood can be challenging. How do you know the seafood at the market or on your menu came from sustainable sources? Find out from www.FishWatch.gov —http://1.usa.gov/yg2wQJ
    Photo: Have a hankering for seafood this weekend? Choosing sustainable seafood can be challenging. How do you know the seafood at the market or on your menu came from sustainable sources? Find out from www.FishWatch.gov —http://1.usa.gov/yg2wQJ
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  26. NOAA Fisheries Service shared NOAA Fisheries Northwest's photo.
    October 5
    What do you get when you keep 1,400 pounds of batteries out of the landfill, collect enough food waste to make 6,400 pounds of compost, and help a local business turn old, leaking waders into wallets? NWFSC picks up a green presidential award at the White House for its community-based recycling program.

    http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/features/recycling_award/recycling-award.cfm
    Photo: What do you get when you keep 1,400 pounds of batteries out of the landfill, collect enough food waste to make 6,400 pounds of compost, and help a local business turn old, leaking waders into wallets? NWFSC picks up a green presidential award at the White House for its community-based recycling program. http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/features/recycling_award/recycling-award.cfm
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  27. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 4
    Speaking of leopard seals, what do you think this leopard seal (left) is saying to the Antarctic fur seal? http://1.usa.gov/RcxEMX

    Image: Seals on the shore of Livingston Island in Antarctica. Credit: McKenzie Mudge. Southwest Fisheries Science Center/NOAA.
    Photo: Speaking of leopard seals, what do you think this leopard seal (left) is saying to the Antarctic fur seal? http://1.usa.gov/RcxEMX Image: Seals on the shore of Livingston Island in Antarctica. Credit: McKenzie Mudge. Southwest Fisheries Science Center/NOAA.
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  28. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 4
    Marine mammals are safer thanks to special agents and enforcement officers with NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, who investigate crimes against marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Act celebrates its 40th anni...
    versary this month—that’s what we call a happy anniversary. http://1.usa.gov/QTh1bJ

    Image: This California sea lion was shot with a crossbow in 2009. NOAA Special Agents located the perpetrator with the public's help.
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    Photo: Marine mammals are safer thanks to special agents and enforcement officers with NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, who investigate crimes against marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Act celebrates its 40th anniversary this month—that’s what we call a happy anniversary. http://1.usa.gov/QTh1bJ Image: This California sea lion was shot with a crossbow in 2009. NOAA Special Agents located the perpetrator with the public's help.
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  29. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 3
    What's that hovering above? It's more NOAA science. Get the science behind aerial drones and what they mean for a new era of marine mammal research. http://1.usa.gov/RcxEMX
    Photo: What's that hovering above? It's more NOAA science. Get the science behind aerial drones and what they mean for a new era of marine mammal research. http://1.usa.gov/RcxEMX
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  30. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 3
    Yikes...this is why you don't want to get too close to a leopard seal—an animal that weighs about thousand pounds and is mostly teeth. Learn how NOAA scientists use aerial drones to hover above and study marine animals and ecosystems in a whole new way—http://1.usa.gov/RcxEMX
    Photo: Yikes...this is why you don't want to get too close to a leopard seal—an animal that weighs about thousand pounds and is mostly teeth. Learn how NOAA scientists use aerial drones to hover above and study marine animals and ecosystems in a whole new way—http://1.usa.gov/RcxEMX
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  31. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 2
    Since your weekend plans probably didn't include exploring deepwater canyons, see what NOAA scientists found—coral "hotspots" off the Northeast Coast. An underwater camera "TowCam" captured this deep-sea, soft coral approximately 5,824 feet below the water's surface. http://1.usa.gov/SY7OLE
    Photo: Since your weekend plans probably didn't include exploring deepwater canyons, see what NOAA scientists found—coral "hotspots" off the Northeast Coast. An underwater camera "TowCam" captured this deep-sea, soft coral approximately 5,824 feet below the water's surface. http://1.usa.gov/SY7OLE
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  32. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 2
    We’re tipping our hats off to Rachel Carson—a pioneer woman scientist who was one of the first two women hired in a non-clerical position with the Bureau of Fisheries, now known as NOAA Fisheries. Carson’s call was writing “Silent Spring”—a...
    book widely credited for helping launch the environmental movement. This week, fans turned out in Woods Hole to celebrate Carson and plans for a local monument in her honor—http://1.usa.gov/RoRc2G

    Image: Drawings of the sculpture, based on a well-known photo of Carson taken in Woods Hole. The sculpture will be installed in Waterfront Park in June 2013. Credit: Anne O'Brien/NOAA
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    Photo: We’re tipping our hats off to Rachel Carson—a pioneer woman scientist who was one of the first two women hired in a non-clerical position with the Bureau of Fisheries, now known as NOAA Fisheries. Carson’s call was writing “Silent Spring”—a book widely credited for helping launch the environmental movement. This week, fans turned out in Woods Hole to celebrate Carson and plans for a local monument in her honor—http://1.usa.gov/RoRc2G Image: Drawings of the sculpture, based on a well-known photo of Carson taken in Woods Hole. The sculpture will be installed in Waterfront Park in June 2013. Credit: Anne O'Brien/NOAA
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  33. NOAA Fisheries Service
    October 1
    Whale...whale...whale...what do we have here? A right whale surfacing near Teacher at Sea Ellen O'Donnell on the Delaware II. Check out the first installment of a new Teacher At Sea gallery: Photo of the Week! http://1.usa.gov/Svj9D2
    Photo: Whale...whale...whale...what do we have here? A right whale surfacing near Teacher at Sea Ellen O'Donnell on the Delaware II. Check out the first installment of a new Teacher At Sea gallery: Photo of the Week! http://1.usa.gov/Svj9D2
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  34. NOAA Fisheries Service updated their cover photo.
    October 1
    Humpback whale with open mouth, in NOAA's Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Credit: NOAA SBNMS.
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  36. NOAA Fisheries Service
    September 30
    Click 'like" if you think this fish woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Northern stargazers have a pair of poison dorsal spines, which provide protection from predators. Some species have electric organs behind their eyes, which give off a 50 volt jolt. Check out other fish photos at http://1.usa.gov/OnKdZt.
    Photo: Click 'like" if you think this fish woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Northern stargazers have a pair of poison dorsal spines, which provide protection from predators. Some species have electric organs behind their eyes, which give off a 50 volt jolt. Check out other fish photos at http://1.usa.gov/OnKdZt.
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  37. NOAA Fisheries Service
    September 29
    Estuaries (10 photos)
    We love estuaries—happy National Estuary Day. Did you know estuaries are often called the nurseries of the sea? They provide vital nesting and feeding habitats for many aquatic plants and animals. Most fish and shellfish eaten in the United States, including salmon, herring, and oysters, spend at least part of their life cycles in estuaries. Brush up on your estuary facts. http://1.usa.gov/kfLmvA
    Photo: Complex tidal channels and salt marshes in one of the many Southeast Alaska estuaries.
    Photo
    Photo: Ft. Desoto Restoration Project at the entrance to Tampa Bay in Florida.
    Photo: Looking across Fisher Slough in Washington.
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  38. NOAA Fisheries Service updated their cover photo.
    September 29
    Estuary with lilypads. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System.
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  39. NOAA Fisheries Service
    September 28
    Click "like" if you knew that lobsters start out so tiny. This juvenile lobster was caught on Georges Bank. It is about 15 mm long, or just over a half-inch. Catch a glimpse of other photo wonders at http://1.usa.gov/QvFJyk.

    Photo Credit: Jerry Prezioso/NOAA
    Photo: Click "like" if you knew that lobsters start out so tiny. This juvenile lobster was caught on Georges Bank. It is about 15 mm long, or just over a half-inch. Catch a glimpse of other photo wonders at http://1.usa.gov/QvFJyk. Photo Credit: Jerry Prezioso/NOAA
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