National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Archives

With ‘eDNA,’ researchers can track fish after they’ve left the area

by Meredith Redick | Mar 21, 2024 | Local News, Syndicated

Scientists have many ways to track fish populations – but they usually require seeing the fish. Now, researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are refining a method to collect data about what fish were present in an area – up to two days after those fish have moved on. Read More

US Court ruling on endangered killer whales likely won’t shut down Southeast trolling. But it could force a rewrite of federal fisheries policy

by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Aug 17, 2022 | Local News, Syndicated

A federal judge in Seattle has ruled that the National Marine Fisheries Service violated a key provision of the Endangered Species Act in 2019, when NMFS published research on the harvest of king salmon in Southeast Alaska – and failed to address its impact on a small population of killer whales in Puget Sound. Read More

Beached whale sighted in Whale Bay

by Katherine Rose, KCAW | Jul 7, 2016 | Local News, Syndicated

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is searching for a whale reported dead near Sitka earlier this week. Read More

Feds propose removing most humpback whales from endangered species list

by Rachel Waldholz, KCAW | Apr 21, 2015 | Local News

The federal government is proposing to remove most humpback whales from the endangered species list. Forty-five years after the whales were first listed, federal scientists say that most humpback populations -- including those common in Alaska - are stable and growing. Read More

Researchers look for clues to sea lion’s death

by Anne Brice, KCAW | Feb 22, 2013 | Local News, Syndicated

A Steller's sea lion washed up onto the rocks in Sitka Sound last Friday. Soon after, a group of Alaska scientists performed a necropsy to find out how it died. What they didn't know is what they would find inside. Read More