The Pacific Northwest is home to several iconic endangered species, including Pacific salmon, killer whales, and several rockfish species. Mandates such as the Endangered Species Act, Magnuson-Stevens Act, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act grant NOAA Fisheries the authority to manage the recovery of depleted species and stocks. The NWFSC contributes to species recovery through research, monitoring, and analysis, providing NOAA managers and regional stakeholders the tools and information they need to craft effective regulations and develop sustainable plans for recovery.

Explore Species

• Deep sea corals
• Human Dimensions
• Marine Mammals
• Marine Fish
• Microorganisms
• Salmon and Steelhead
• Shellfish

Deep sea corals

• Genetics of deep sea corals
• West Coast deep sea coral expedition

Human Dimensions

• Diversification of fishermen
• Fishing and coastal community profiling and vulnerability analyses
• Fishing communities by gear and species
• Pacific Coast groundfish trawl fishery social study
• Puget Sound social survey and analysis
• Southern Resident killer whale social study
• Understanding behavior in the Pacific groundfish trawl fishery

Marine Mammals

• Assessing killer whale status and trends
• Foraging ecology of cetaceans
• Life history parameter modeling
• Southern Resident killer whale prey
• Southern Resident killer whale satellite tagging

Marine Fish

• Attractants effects on fish digestive function
• Cooperative aging project
• Fisheries stock assessments
• Forensic voucher collection
• Lingcod stock enhancement in Puget Sound
• Pacific hake biomass estimate
• Southern California shelf rockfish hook and line survey
• Temperature effects on fish skeletal formation
• U.S. West Coast groundfish bottom trawl survey
• Vitamin A effects on skeletal formation and pigmentation in fish
• Sablefish
  • Hormonal manipulation of sablefish reproduction
  • Marine larval rearing
  • Optimizing sablefish reproduction
  • Sablefish broodstocks and selection
  • Sablefish diet and enhanced growth
  • Sablefish larval feeding behavior and optimization
  • Sablefish population genetics
  • Sablefish reproductive life history
  • Sex control for sablefish

Microorganisms

• Algal toxins in marine mammals
• Dinophysis-- the new harmful algal bloom on the block
• Early warning of harmful algal blooms
• Ecophysiology and toxicity of Heterosigma in Puget Sound
• Environmental Microbiology
• Forecasting harmful algal bloom with weather and climate
• Sablefish gut microbiome
• Toxic blooms of Alexandrium in Puget Sound
• Vibrio
  • Ecology of Vibrio
  • Forecasting increases in Vibrio populations
  • Genetic diversity of Vibrio
  • Illness and tidal trends of Vibrio in Puget Sound
  • Modeling Vibrio virulence

Salmon and steelhead

• Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD)
• Behavioral ecology
• Contaminants and Lower Columbia River salmon
• Disease diagnostics
• Forecast of adult salmon returns
• Genetic stock identification
• Hatchery salmon reproductive success
• Juvenile salmon in lower Columbia River Estuary
• Life cycle models of salmonids in Columbia River Basin
• Methow River steelhead
• Salmon captive broodstocks
• Stormwater science: ecological impacts
• Working with beaver to restore salmon habitat
• Quantitative genetics and aquaculture

Shellfish

• Olympia oyster restoration
• Shellfish hatchery