SWFSC - Southwest Fisheries Science Center

The Southwest Fisheries Science Center website is moving to the NOAA Fisheries site on August 3, 2020.
You can find us at https://fisheries.noaa.gov/swfsc with new and updated content.

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Southwest Fisheries Science Center Laboratory

The SWFSC generates the science necessary for the conservation and management of the living marine resources in the California Current, Pacific Ocean and in Antarctica. Read More. . .
Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division

The Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division provides scientific information for the conservation and management of the living marine resources in the ocean areas surrounding Antarctica. Read More. . .
Environmental Research Division

The Environmental Research Division provides investigations of environmental variability – from global to local scales - and delivery of data products to the public. Read More...
Fisheries Ecology Division

The Fisheries Ecology Division provides ecosystem-based science in support of the conservation and management of Pacific coast groundfish and Pacific salmon. Read More. . .
Fisheries Resources Division

The Fisheries Resources Division provides science for the conservation and management coastal pelagic and highly migratory fishes in the California Current and pan-Pacific pelagic ecosystems. Read More. . .
Marine Mammal & Turtle Research Division

The Marine Mammal and Turtle Research Division provides science to monitor, assess and recover marine mammals and turtles nationally and internationally. Read More. . .

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SWFSC News Has Moved To Fisheries News

01-10-2020

eDNA Expands Species Surveys to Capture a More Complete Picture

12-20-2019

Salmon Lose Diversity in Managed Rivers, Reducing Resilience to Environmental Change

12-06-2019

Divers Release Endangered Abalone Into the Wild for First Time, Boosting Odds of Recovery

11-21-2019

Genetics Reveal Pacific Subspecies of Fin Whale

10-22-2019

Looking Back at The Blob: Record Warming Drives Unprecedented Ocean Change

10-07-2019

Research Cruise to Survey Deep Sea Corals, Sponges, and Fish Habitat Along the West Coast

10-07-2019

Temperature Observations To Avoid Loggerheads (TOTAL) Tool Supports Turtle Conservation and Sustainable Fisheries

09-05-2019

New Marine Heatwave Emerges off West Coast, Resembles 'the Blob'

09-05-2019

Mako Shark Tracking off West Coast Reveals “Impressive” Memory and Navigation

08-29-2019

Follow Researchers Aboard the 2019 California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES)

07-23-2019

New Research Helps Managers and Ship Crews Predict Locations of Blue Whales so Ships Can Maintain Safe Distances

07-09-2019

Sea Turtle Fingerprints Help Unlock Population Secrets

06-14-2019

White Abalone Spawning Produces 25 Million Eggs for Captive Breeding Program

05-16-2019

SWFSC Researchers Demonstrate Key Benefits of Marine Protected Areas in California

05-07-2019

New Research Reveals Clearer Picture of Upwelling that Feeds West Coast Marine Ecosystem

05-06-2019

Tagging Reveals Secrets of Southern California’s Largest Sharks

05-06-2019

Fisheries Resources Division Sets Sail for the 2019 Spring CalCOFI Cruise

04-10-2019

Critically Endangered White Abalone Discovered Solo in Coastal LA County Water

04-10-2019

Advances in Captive Breeding of Black Abalone

03-28-2019

Sardine Population Remains Low, New Draft Stock Assessment Finds

03-27-2019

New Species Named After NOAA Fisheries Scientist Matthew Craig

03-12-2019

West Coast Waters Grow More Productive with Shift Toward Cooler Conditions

03-07-2019

Scientists Find Mystery Killer Whales off Cape Horn, Chile

03-05-2019

New Video Highlights History and Mission of CalCOFI Program

11-07-2018

New Study Finds That When it Comes To Sustainability, Some Americans Are Willing To Pay

10-31-2018

Floods Reshaped Carmel River Following 2015 Dam Removal, New Research Shows

10-15-2018

Stock Assessment Expertise Brings Award to SWFSC, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission

08-22-2018

Some Good News for Pacific Bluefin Tuna

08-10-2018

Saildrones join NOAA’s West Coast fleet for experimental fisheries surveys

06-25-2018

New Oceanographic Insight Pinpoints Marine ‘Hotspots of Risk’

06-24-2018

Celebrating Sea Turtle Week 2018

06-11-2018

Clues at Fish Auction Reveal Several New Species of Opah

06-07-2018

New Tool Helps Fisheries Avoid Protected Species In Near Real Time

05-30-2018

Remote camera network tracks Antarctic species at low cost

05-16-2018

Ice Age Confined Sperm Whales to Pacific Ocean 100,000 Years Ago, Genetics Show

05-15-2018

California Clean-Air Mandates May Reduce Ship Risk for Whales

04-17-2018

A Picture of Health? Photogrammetry Detects Changes in Body Condition of Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales

04-10-2018

West Coast Ocean Returning To Normal But Salmon Catches Lagging

03-20-2018

Sea Lion Breeding Shifts North to San Francisco Bay Area Islands

03-19-2018

Hitching a Ride across the Pacific: Yellowtail Jacks Make the Journey in the Hold of a Derelict Vessel

02-15-2018

New Study Published on Population Growth and Status of California Sea Lions

01-17-2018

Rising temperatures turning major sea turtle population female

01-08-2018

Scientists Call for Improved Technologies to Save Imperiled California Salmon

12-01-2017

Drone photos yield faster, cheaper data on key Antarctic species.

11-29-2017

Climate Shifts Shorten Marine Food Chain off California

10-19-2017

SWFSC Geneticist Carlos Garza Elected Cal Academy Fellow

10-10-2017

Hexacopter-captured Whale Blow Supports a Framework for Health Monitoring

10-10-2017

California Leatherback Day Celebration at Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

10-02-2017

Protected Waters Foster Resurgence of West Coast Rockfish

09-20-2017

Researchers Study Response of the Carmel River and Steelhead Following Removal of San Clemente Dam

09-11-2017

SWFSC Joins Partnership to Restore Salmon and Steelhead Habitat

08-31-2017

Measuring Whales from the Air – Hexacopter Photogrammetry of Cook Inlet Beluga Whales

08-22-2017

Fishermen See ‘Science in Action’ Aboard NOAA Survey Ship

08-14-2017

Tracking Antarctic Penguins Using Chemical Signatures

08-09-2017

New NOAA Fisheries Research Reveals Ecosystem Cascades Affecting Salmon

07-28-2017

Rare San Diego Sighting of False Killer Whales

07-26-2017

SWFSC Scientist, Manjula Tiwari, Recognized by U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, for her Conservation Work

07-18-2017

SWFSC Researcher's Work on Coral Reef Fish Featured on the Cover of the Journal PNAS

05-16-2017

Thousands of Endangered Coho Smolts Released into Scott Creek

05-15-2017

NOAA Fisheries Scientists Spawn Pacific Sardines For The First Time In Captivity

04-17-2017

Assessing Noise in Southern California Whale Habitat

04-10-2017

New Methods Further Discern Extreme Fluctuations in Forage Fish Populations

02-10-2017

Reconnecting Landscapes: Removal of San Clemente Dam on the Carmel River

02-10-2017

Data on Blue Whales off California Helps Protect Their Distant Relatives

02-07-2017

Can The U.S. Have Its Fish and Eat It Too?

01-24-2017

Aerial Images Document The Final Months Of J2, An Iconic Southern Resident Killer Whale

01-05-2017

International Camera Network Keeps Eyes on Antarctic Penguins

12-16-2016

Fishery Bycatch Rapidly Driving Mexico’s Vaquita to Extinction, New Studies Find

12-06-2016

Scientists Improve Predictions of How Temperature Affects the Survival of Fish Embryos

12-05-2016

New Forecast Tool Helps Ships Avoid Blue Whale Hotspots

11-29-2016

California Leatherback Day Celebration at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center

10-06-2016

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Affected a Slice of Gulf of Mexico Bluefin Spawning Habitat

09-22-2016

West Coast Research Expedition Tracks Elusive Beaked Whales

08-25-2016

SWFSC Study Documenting Economic Importance of Recreational Fishing Featured on Sportfishing Website, BD Outdoors

08-04-2016

NOAA Scientists Search for Endangered White Abalone

08-01-2016

How in Danger Is an Endangered Species? New Study Provides an Answer

07-29-2016

Award Recognizes NOAA Fisheries Biologist for Work on Vaquita

07-27-2016

International Search Reveals Genetic Evidence for New Species of Beaked Whale

07-22-2016

‘The Blob’ Overshadows El Niño

07-18-2016

US Navy and NOAA Fisheries Sign Historic Agreement for White Abalone Recovery

07-13-2016

El Niño Patterns Contributed to Long-lived Marine Heatwave in North Pacific

07-11-2016

A Mako's Last Meal Part II: The Shark Bite Effect

06-27-2016

Putting the World in World Sea Turtle Day

06-22-2016

New Study Highlights Hidden Values of Open Ocean

06-20-2016

Reddit - Ask Me Anything about Marine Turtles - with NOAA Scientist Peter Dutton

06-14-2016

Genes and Culture Drive Killer Whale Evolution

06-01-2016

New Survey Reveals Precipitous Decline of Endangered Vaquita

05-20-2016

New Technique Traces Link between Fishing and Sea Turtles

05-06-2016

Endangered Whales Get a High-Tech Check-Up

05-04-2016

Sardine Numbers Remain Low, 2016 Fishing Remains Closed

04-13-2016

Can the Vaquita be Saved from Extinction?

03-13-2016

Food Limitation Linked to Record California Sea Lion Strandings

03-01-2016

Genetic Matchmaking in California Salmon Hatcheries (New York Times)

01-22-2016

From Sky to Sea: Studying Sea Turtles amid Warming Waters

12-11-2015

November Takes a Bite Out of 'the Blob'

12-10-2015

Underweight California Sea Lion and Northern Fur Seal Pups at a California Rookery Forebode the Possibility of High Strandings along U.S. West Coast this Winter and Spring

12-08-2015

Newest NOAA Fisheries Survey Ship Concludes Maiden Scientific Voyage

11-09-2015

What Was Killing the Young Right Whales? New Research Zeros In On A Suspect

11-02-2015

Napa Student Rewarded by NOAA Scientists for Finding Green Sturgeon Satellite Tag

11-02-2015

New Method Reveals Female Biased Green Sea Turtle Sex Ratio in San Diego Bay

10-27-2015

Unmanned NOAA Hexacopter Monitors Health of Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whales

10-21-2015

To Breathe or Eat: Blue Whales Use Efficient Foraging To Maintain Massive Body Size

10-12-2015

Vaquitas Surface as Mexican Minister of the Environment Launches Survey for the Endangered Porpoise

10-05-2015

Mexico Launches Intensive Survey for Endangered Vaquita

10-01-2015

Mexican Expedition Sights Rare and Endangered Vaquita Porpoise

10-02-2015

Estimating Shasta Lake Cold Water Supply to Help Sacramento River Salmon

09-25-2015

Tagged Hammerhead Shark Travels Widely In Warm Pacific Waters

09-04-2015

In Search of the Few Endangered Right Whales off the Alaskan Coast

08-27-2015

New DNA Research Reveals Genetic Heritage of Elusive Vaquita

08-18-2015

Collaborative Large Whale Survey: CLAWS 2015

08-07-2015

Whale Research Takes Flight

08-07-2015

2015 Review of NOAA Fisheries' Science on Marine Mammals & Turtles

07-22-2015

Newest NOAA Fisheries Survey Vessel Begins U.S. West Coast and Alaska Whale Survey

07-09-2015

2015 Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey Highlights Unusual Ocean Conditions

06-24-2015

Saving the Leatherback Sea Turtle - Podcast

06-18-2015

NOAA Fisheries Mobilizes to Gauge Unprecedented West Coast Toxic Algal Bloom

06-17-2015

Scientists Can’t Get There but Honey Badger Can

06-16-2015

Scientists Studying Blue Whales use DNA and Photo-ID to Reveal an Epic Journey by “Isabela” and the First Link to Breeding Ground for Chilean Blue Whales

06-15-2015

Scientists Use Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to Study Gray Whales from Above

05-28-2015

Warm Blood Makes Opah an Agile Predator

05-12-2015

For the First Time, Scientists Tag a Loggerhead Sea Turtle off U.S. West Coast

05-08-2015

Los Angeles Times Features MMTD Biologist Mark Lowry

05-07-2015

Sardine Assessment Shows Cyclic Decline in Population

04-16-2015

Online Seminars: Deep-sea Corals and Sponges as Habitat

04-03-2015

Environmental Changes Stress West Coast Sea Lions

03-18-2015

MMTD Automatic Whale Detector, Version 1.0

02-10-2015

Technology Expands Gray Whale Count

02-10-2015

Fisheries Resources Division Scientists Discuss Opah With National Geographic

02-09-2015

Genetics Lab Unravels Mystery Killing At Sea

01-28-2015

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Interviews MMTD Director Lisa Ballance

01-27-2015

Surprise Discovery off California Exposes Loggerhead 'Lost Years'

01-09-2015

Unusual Species Highlight West Coast Cetacean and Ecosystem Survey

12-12-2014

MMTD Welcomes New Post-doctoral Fellow

12-09-2014

West Coast Marine Mammal Survey Spots Unusual Whales, Dolphins, Turtles and Seabirds

11-01-2014

Sea Turtle Skeletons Hold Clues for Conservation

10-30-2014

NMFS Scientists Take a First Look at Deep-sea Corals Near the California-Oregon Border

10-22-2014

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Offers a New View of Killer Whales

10-09-2014

Changing Winds Explain Most Pacific Coast Warming

09-22-2014

Unusual North Pacific Warmth Jostles Marine Food Chain

09-08-2014

A Remarkable Warming of Central California’s Coastal Ocean

07-30-2014

Gray Whale Calves Born in Big Numbers

07-24-2014

Economics Staff from the Southwest Fishery Science Center Contribute to Annual Report on the Economic Impact of the Commercial and Recreational Fisheries in California and the U.S.

07-17-2014

NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Shakedown Cruise

07-11-2014

Career Girls: What I do- Marine Biologist, Noelle Bowlin

07-03-2014

Leatherback Turtles in the News

06-19-2014

Report Of The 2011 Contribution of Marine Recreational Angling to the California Economy

03-13-2014

First Issue of African Sea Turtle Newsleter Published

03-03-2014

CalCOFI Book Published

02-21-2014

Smart Women Doing Cool Stuff!

01-15-2014

28th AMLR Field Season Kicks Off

01-15-2014

MMTD-SIO Doctorate Student Wins Award

12-16-2013

SWFSC Researchers Featured in New Vaquita Video

12-11-2013

Antarctic Killer Whale Ecology Research

12-10-2013

Sea Turtles Call San Gabriel River Home

12-05-2013

High Predation Rates by Avian Predators on Threatened Steelhead Populations

12-02-2013

MMTD Participates in NOAA Day at Aquarium of the Pacific

12-02-2013

Graduate Student Research Featured on Radio Story

11-26-2013

2012 Nancy Foster Habitat Conservation Award

11-22-2013

October Research Cruise Targets Swordfish, Albacore, Opah and Sharks

10-30-2013

New Research Published on Human Impacts on Top Predators in the California Current

10-29-2013

NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Scientists Dissect 14 Foot Oarfish Washed Ashore On Northern San Diego Beach

10-22-2013

Timing of Steelhead Reproduction Found to Be Highly Heritable

08-27-2013

Division Name Change: PRD becomes MMTD

08-26-2013

A Mako Shark's Last Meal

08-14-2013

Net Cameras Add New Dimension To Viewing Fish Behavior

05-16-2013

Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat, Request for Proposals

05-07-2013

Groundfish STAR Panel for Data-Moderate Assessments

04-30-2013

New Study Analyzes the Risk to Endangered Whales from Ship Traffic off Southern California

03-25-2013

Scientists Use Aerial Drones to Study Sperm Whales Up Close

03-08-2013

Satellite Tracking of Marine Mammals in the Antarctic

01-26-2013

SWFSC Scientists and International Scientific Committee (ISC) Complete Pacific Bluefin Tuna Stock Assessment

01-14-2013

Aerial Photos Give Perspective on Gray Whales

01-14-2013

Cooperative Research to Monitor the Recovery of Depleted Groundfishes in Southern CA: A Habitat Blueprint Project

12-12-2012

Scientists Propose New Name for Mammal-Eating Killer Whales

12-05-2012

Teacher Learns Science Behind Leatherback Turtles

11-27-2012

Fishery Data, On the Double

11-27-2012

Rockfish Recompression Research

11-19-2012

Five-Year Review of Pacific Coast Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat

11-15-2012

Bowhead Whale Research

11-08-2012

Globe Trotting Gray Whales Slowly Reveal Their Secrets

10-22-2012

Aerial Drones Give NOAA Scientists a New Perspective

10-03-2012

New Research Published on Climate Change Impacts on Marine Predators

09-26-2012

Movements of Gray Whales between the Western and Eastern North Pacific

09-26-2012

Foraging Ecology of Shortfin Mako, Blue and Common Thresher Sharks

09-11-2012

Opah Research in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

08-24-2012

California Hatchery Scientific Review

08-10-2012

Ocean Salmon Survey 2012

07-24-2012

Juvenile Rockfish - Ecosystem Assessment Survey Concludes

07-16-2012

NOAA Works with Indonesian Team to Protect Endangered Sea Turtles

07-12-2012

International Efforts to Assess Risk Factors for Maui’s Dolphin

07-12-2012

New Research on the Decline of the White Abalone, Haliotis sorenseni

07-05-2012

International Efforts to Assess the Status of Pacific Sardine Stocks

07-02-2012

2012 Summer Coastwide Tri-National Sardine Survey and SaKe Survey

07-02-2012

Research on Movements of Green Sturgeon Wins American Fisheries Society 2011 Publications Award

06-29-2012

2012 Brings Record Number of Gray Whale Calves

06-27-2012

Monterey Bay Marine GIS User Group

06-01-2012

BBC Filming of Gray Whale Survey

05-08-2012

SWFSC Scientists and Gray Whales are Forging New Paths

04-23-2012

Cooperative Groundfish Research at the SWFSC (Video)

04-23-2012

2012 Coastwide Survey Featured on San Diego Channel 10News

04-11-2012

New Barotrauma Webpage Posted

04-09-2012

19th Annual Survey of Gray Whale Calf Production - Field Season 2012 Underway

04-04-2012

Spring CalCOFI Survey is Underway

03-28-2012

Antarctic Killer Whale Research Featured in Upcoming TV Series

03-15-2012

Gray Whale Tracking

03-09-2012

Killer Whale Research in Antarctica

02-13-2012

A Glimpse into the Elusive Basking Shark's Habits

02-13-2012

Collision Course: Whales and Ships in Southern California

02-01-2012

Critical Habitat Expanded for Endangered Leatherback Turtles off the U.S. West Coast

01-27-2012

Aerial Survey of Gray Whales

01-23-2012

Abalone Research Article in Union Tribune

01-18-2012

The Annual Gray Whale Migration is Underway

01-12-2012

Daily Blog: Follow Scientists on an Expedition to Study Killer Whales in the Antarctic

01-12-2012

2011 CalCOFI Conference

12-27-2011

SWFSC hosts the 12th annual Trinational Sardine Forum

12-27-2011

San Diego Bay Green Turtle Research Featured in San Diego Union Tribune

12-18-2011

NOAA Research Cruise Featured in Science - Books et al.

12-18-2011

Researchers from the SWFSC Conduct Necropsy on Stranded Fin Whale

11-30-2011

New, Higher Estimates of Endangered Humpback Whales in the North Pacific

11-04-2011

Antarctic Killer Whales May Seek Spa-like Relief in the Tropics

10-31-2011

Southern California Coral and Sponge Community Report

10-26-2011

Scientists Sink Their Teeth Into Shark Study

10-06-2011

Green Seas, Blue Seas Exhibit Opens at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History

10-05-2011

Killer Whale Tagging Video on BBC One

08-11-2011

Researchers Map Long-range Migration of Leatherback Sea Turtles

07-27-2011

Public Asked to Report Basking Shark Sightings

06-29-2011

FRD Tags Two More Basking Sharks in the Pacific Ocean

06-14-2011

'Working on Thin Ice: 25 Years of Research in Antarctica' Opens at the San Diego Natural History Museum on May 14, 2011

05-13-2011

New Paper Links Antarctic Penguin Population Decline to Krill Population Variability

05-03-2011

New Paper on North Pacific Albacore Migration

04-19-2011

U.S. AMLR Program Completes Its 25th Field Season

04-05-2011

Northbound Gray Whale Calf Production Survey Begins

03-30-2011

Tagged Sablefish Recovered Decades Later

03-22-2011

Data Needed for 5-Year Review of Pacific Coast Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat

03-02-2011

Your Chance To Visit With NOAA Scientists in Southern California

02-23-2011

25th US AMLR Field Season Commemorated by San Diego's Union Tribune

01-27-2011

Southbound Gray Whale Population Survey Begins

01-17-2011

SWFSC Scientists Showcase ROV Surveys of Deep-water Corals along the West Coast

01-14-2011

AMLR 25th Anniversary Featured on ABC News

01-06-2011

SWFSC Scientists Prepare New Fact Sheet on Thresher Sharks

12-22-2010

AERD Begins its 25th AMLR Field Season

12-13-2010

Deepsea Coral and Sponge Image Database Launched

11-15-2010

On West Coast, Using an ‘Otter’ to Track Turtles and More

11-09-2010

New Journal Article on Pacific Sardine Recruitment Predictors

11-04-2010

Christmas Tree Black Corals Surveyed Near Channel Islands, Southern California

10-20-2010

Deepsea Coral and Fish Habitat Surveys Conducted on Underwater Mountain

07-15-2010

Southwest Fisheries Scientists Participate in the Behavioral Response Study of Cetaceans to Navy Sonar, Southern California

09-07-2010

SWFSC Scientist Tomo Eguchi Joins NOAA's Oil Spill Response Team

07-28-2010

Killer whale predation on penguins in Antarctica

07-23-2010

Aleutian Islands Killer Whale Cruise, Bering Sea, Alaska

07-07-2010

Leatherback Turtle Genetic Tagging Demography Research, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands

07-07-2010

Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Cruise Concludes

06-29-2010

First Sampling Phase Complete for Chinook Salmon Ocean Distribution Mapping

06-24-2010

AERD responds to 2009 Program Review

06-15-2010

NOAA Fisheries tags first basking shark in the Pacific Ocean

06-08-2010

Deep water coral cruise virtual tours available now

06-07-2010

Live Track of the 2010 Overwinter Movement of Antarctic Predators

04-28-2010

Genetic Stock Identification of 2010 Monterey Bay Chinook Salmon Recreational Fishery

04-27-2010

New study indicates multiple species of killer whale

04-23-2010

Tracking killer whale movements to evaluate predation on gray whales

04-23-2010

Gray Whale Calf Production Survey Begins

04-07-2010

AERD completes the 24th field season of the AMLR Program

03-29-2010

Klamath Basin Science Conference

02-25-2010

Science Article on Endangered Central Coast Coho

02-25-2010

Determining Yield for Data-Poor Stocks

02-25-2010

Deepsea Coral Research Priorities Workshop

02-11-2010

NRC Panel Studies California Bay-Delta Water Management

02-05-2010

Salmon Creek Reintroduction Experiment Successfully Produced Juvenile Coho

12-04-2009

Workgroup Evaluates Hatchery Chinook Marking and Tagging Programs

11-18-2009

Bronzespotted and Greenspotted Rockfish Assessments Reviewed

10-06-2009

Bocaccio and Widow Rockfish Assessments Accepted

09-24-2009

Scientific Uncertainty in Stock Assessments Evaluated

09-24-2009

Fourth International Otolith Symposium

09-24-2009

Ecosystem Survey of Delphinus Species

09-16-2009

Wildfire Near Salmonid Recovery and Research Facility

08-27-2009

Model Presented to the Sacramento River Temperature Task Group

08-27-2009

AERD hosts Workshop on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

08-17-2009

Bocaccio and Widow Rockfish Assessments Completed

07-31-2009

AMLR Program highlighted by the National Science Foundation

07-15-2009

The National Weather Service announces warmer than average equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures

07-09-2009

Annual West Coast Midwater Trawl Survey Completed

07-09-2009

The Trans-Pacific Journey of the Leatherback Turtle

07-09-2009

New Fisheries Oceanography web pages go live

07-07-2009

2009 AMLR Field Season successfully completed

06-24-2009

Dr. Christopher Jones to appear in National Geographic

06-24-2009

Tracking beaked whales in the Bahamas

06-11-2009

Klamath River Dam Removal Meeting

06-02-2009

Juvenile Rockfish Cruise Begins

05-26-2009

MAFAC Presentation on Sacrament River Fall Chinook Decline

05-21-2009

Final 2008 Marine Mammal Stock Assessments Published

05-04-2009

Marine Debris Video in Santa Cruz Film Festival

05-04-2009

California Historical Catch Reconstruction

05-04-2009

Report on Sacramento River Fall Chinook Stock Collapse Available

03-19-2009

California Coast Coho Salmon Continue to Decline

03-19-2009

Density Ratio Working Group Meeting

03-19-2009

Debut of new website: World Cetacea Database

03-18-2009

Developing a Stream Temperature Forecast Web Site

02-12-2009

Habitat Assessment Improvement Plan Progress Meeting

02-12-2009

Estimating Sustainable Yields for Data-Poor Stocks

01-29-2009

Bocaccio proposed for removal from Species of Concern List

01-29-2009

Four FRD staff members receive top NOAA honors

01-22-2009

PRD scientist wins Best Paper award from Biological Conservation

12-02-2008

Working Group Organizes to Consider Causes of Salmon Decline

08-04-2008

MPA Density-Ratio Working Group Meeting

08-04-2008

Habitat Assessment Improvement Plan Meeting

07-28-2008

Review of Submersible Research on Demersal Communities

11-12-2008

Monitoring California’s Deep Water Marine Protected Areas

11-12-2008

Beaked Whales and Acoustic Pingers

11-10-2008

Ancestry of Southern California Steelhead and Rainbow Trout

11-07-2008

Jumbo Squid Tagged to Study Ecology and Movement Patterns

11-07-2008

SWFSC Research on Vermilion Rockfish is Front Page News

10-17-2008

Habitat Assessment Improvement Plan Questionnaires Finalized

10-15-2008

Third Consecutive Weak Year for Coho South of San Francisco

10-15-2008

Leatherback Turtle Survey Begins

08-28-2008

Marine Debris Video

08-12-2008

Research on Killer Whale Movement Patterns is Highlighted

08-12-2008

NMFS Vulnerability Evaluation Work Group

08-06-2008

Giant Squid Examination

08-06-2008

Annual Midwater Trawl Survey Completed

08-06-2008

ORCAWALE 2008 Survey is Underway

07-31-2008

MPA Ecosystem Survey Funded

06-13-2008

New report documents increases in dolphin populations in the eastern tropical Pacific

06-05-2008

New publications investigate links between climate change, fishing, and the abundance and geographic distribution of fishes in the California Current.

05-30-2008

Humpback whale population showing signs of recovery

05-22-2008

Skinny Gray Whales and Climate Change?

05-16-2008

California Commercial Landings Data Recovered

03-31-2008

Fifteenth Western Groundfish Conference

02-11-2008

Migratory Behavior of Green Sturgeon Revealed by Acoustic Tagging

01-11-2008

Rockfish Research Cruise in California MPAs

11-26-2007

Coho Salmon Near Total Year-Class Failure in Southern Range

11-05-2007

Southern Range Limit of Coho Salmon Established

10-29-2007

SWFSC Scientists Win 2007 Fishery Bulletin Best Paper Award

03-03-2008

Loggerhead & Leatherback Turtle Researchers in the News

02-04-2008

Leatherback Turtle Makes 647-Day Journey

01-28-2008

West Coast Fisheries Survey Vessels

12-28-2007

2008 NOAA Ocean Satellite Data Course Announced (December 13, 2007)

12-13-2007

Documentary featuring the Marine Turtle Research Program at SWFSC wins 2007 Ocean Conservation Award

10-29-2007

NOAA Fisheries work with Crittercam highlighted in Washington Post

10-29-2007

Survey of Rogue River Green Sturgeon

10-25-2007

SWFSC Co-hosting the 2008 Western Groundfish Conference

10-15-2007

Seafloor Survey of New Marine Protected Areas

10-11-2007

Leatherback Tagging Project Completed Successfully

10-09-2007

Juvenile Salmonid Survey

09-20-2007

Collecting Small Vessel Use Pattern Data With RFID

09-20-2007

STAR-LITE 2007 Research Cruise

08-28-2007

Yangtze River dolphin driven to extinction

08-13-2007

Hawaii false killer whales genetically distinct, says scientists.

08-06-2007

2007 Juvenile Rockfish Survey Completed

08-01-2007

Review of Bocaccio and Chilipepper Rockfish Assessments

08-01-2007

Experts Seek to Save Rare Turtle

07-17-2007

Gray whales are skinnier, and scientists suspect Arctic warming is the reason why.

07-06-2007

Conservation Alert on Vaquita in Natural History Magazine

07-03-2007

San Jose Mercury News - Humpback whales make comeback

06-25-2007

Marine Nutrients Important to Steelhead in Scott Creek Lagoon

05-28-2007

Acoustic Tag Data for Salmon and Steelhead

03-12-2007

Historical California Landings Data

06-08-2007

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06-07-2007

earthOCEAN Features the Apparent Loss of the Yangtze River Dolphin from Our Planet

04-17-2007

Dolphin Numbers Still Low Despite Safe Tuna Fishing

03-28-2007

Killer Whale Research Highlighted in International and Local Media

02-20-2007

NOAA Celebrates its 200th Anniversary

02-12-2007

Bronzespotted Rockfish May Be Seriously Depleted

02-06-2007

Video - NOAA ships David Starr Jordan and McArthur II return from STAR 2006 research cruise

12-12-2006

Green Sturgeon Archival Tag Data

11-13-2006

PaCOOS Sampling Cruise

11-13-2006

Klamath Salmon Genetic Stock ID in the News

10-20-2006

Grunion Found in San Francisco Bay

10-06-2006

Salmon Genetic Stock Identification Workshop

09-27-2006

Groundfish Pre-Recruit Survey Workshop

09-19-2006

Klamath Dam Relicensing Hearing

09-12-2006

Oil Spill Containment Exercise

09-11-2006

Completion of 2006 Juvenile Rockfish Identifications

09-11-2006

Teacher-at-Sea: Mark Harris (video)

09-11-2006

NPR Story on Leatherback Sea Turtles

09-07-2006

MPA Science Integration Meeting

07-25-2006

External Review of Shortbelly Rockfish Stock Assessment

07-06-2006

Ocean Tracking Network Proposal Planning Workshop

07-06-2006

Juvenile Shark Abundance Survey Begins

06-29-2006

Coastwide Salmonid Genetics Meeting

06-28-2006

Juvenile Rockfish Trawl Survey Completed

06-20-2006

Work Begins on Digitization of Historical California Landings Data

05-08-2006

Salmon Fishery Management Plan Amendment 15 Committee

05-08-2006

Council Recommends 2006 Salmon Fishery Management Measures

04-10-2006

Review of Klamath River Chinook Spawner Floor Science

04-03-2006

Managing Recreational Fishing in Marine Protected Areas

03-13-2006

Salmon & Trout Education Program Workshop

02-20-2006

Jumbo Squid Research Projects

02-20-2006

Pacific Hake/Whiting Stock Assessment

02-20-2006

CPUE Index for Yelloweye Rockfish Re-assessment

01-23-2006

Data Show Much Higher Historical Catches for Yelloweye Rockfish

01-12-2006

Digitizing Historical Fish Landings Data

01-12-2006

NMFS Facilities Meeting

06-09-2006

NOAA Preserve America Initiative (PAIG) program grant - The 100-Year Sardine Legacy.... (April 10, 2006)

04-11-2006

Fisheries Resources Division News (April 3, 2006)

04-04-2006

Environmental Research Division News (April 3, 2006)

04-04-2006

Chinese River Dolphin Project

04-04-2006

Fisheries Resources Division News (January 9, 2006)

02-28-2006

12-09-2005

Fisheries Resources Division News (August 2, 2005)

11-18-2005

Fisheries Resources Division News (October 17, 2005)

11-18-2005

Fisheries Resources Division News (November 7 2005)

11-18-2005

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