The claims to extended continental shelf territory, to be asserted by the U.S. State Department, include an area within the Arctic Ocean that is bigger than California.
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Report details 37 known killer whale entanglements in Alaska over three decades
The report does not include this year’s unusually high number of cases, in which 10 killer whales were found ensnared in fishing gear.
10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the Bering Sea. Scientists and fishermen are working to learn why
More than 10 billion Bering Sea snow crabs disappeared in Alaska between the years 2018 and 2022, devastating a commercial fishing industry worth $200 million just last year.
NOAA denies emergency request to close red king crab savings areas
The Bristol Bay red king crab fishery has been closed to fishing for two years due to low population.
NOAA recognizes 3 cruise ships as contributors to program meant to reduce whale strikes
Some 927 whale sightings were reported by Alaska cruise lines this year.
Sen. Sullivan announces legislation targeting illegal foreign fishing
The FISH Act directs the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to compile a list of foreign vessels that have engaged in unsanctioned fishing and ban them from U.S. ports.
On Utqiagvik’s edge, an observatory measures the gases that are warming the Arctic and the planet
NOAA’s Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory got a big upgrade enabling more science at a time when climate-change conditions are getting worse.
Body of beaked whale floats up off Unalaska
The whale spotted last month was may have been a Baird’s beaked whale, but it hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Cleanup on remote Southeast Alaska island aids research into marine trash and microplastics
Nearly six tons of marine debris collected from a remote island were offloaded in Ketchikan last week.
Fishing-gear entanglements of whales increased in Alaska, NOAA report says
The vast majority of confirmed whale entanglements involved humpback whales.