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Published: February 10, 2011
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According to the Maryland's 2010 fall oyster survey, the number of spat or baby oysters in state waters is at its highest level since 1997.
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Published: February 2, 2011
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The Chinook management plan, submitted by Washington State and Puget Sound treaty Indian tribes for the fisheries agency’s approval under the ESA, would govern Indian and non-Indian sport and commercial Chinook harvests through 2014.
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Published: January 23, 2011
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Scientists have found that Pacific salmon are now contending with a viral infection possibly similar to leukemia and lymphoma.
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Published: January 23, 2011
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The biomedical companies Lonza Walkersville, Inc., Associates of Cape Cod, Inc., and Charles River Laboratory have together pledged over $100,000 to support the Horseshoe Crab Trawl Survey for 2011. The survey, which has been administered by Virginia Tech since 2002, is the only survey designed to sample the horseshoe crab population in coastal waters.
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Published: January 23, 2011
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NOAA Fisheries, in cooperation with the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, is soliciting proposals under the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Research Set-Aside Program that address research priorities for the summer flounder, scup, black sea bass, Loligo squid, Illex squid, Atlantic mackerel, butterfish, and bluefish, and tilefish fisheries.
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Published: January 22, 2011
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NOAA Fisheries will prepare critical habitat designation proposals for lower Columbia River coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Puget Sound steelhead (O. mykiss), both currently listed as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The areas under consideration include watersheds in the lower Columbia River basin in southwest Washington and northwest Oregon, as well as watersheds in Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca in Washington.
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Published: January 10, 2011
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Billfish and tuna, important commercial and recreational fish species, may be more vulnerable to fishing pressure because of shrinking habitat according to a new study published by scientists from NOAA, the Billfish Foundation, and the University of Miami.
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Published: January 6, 2011
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NOAA Fisheries is proposing to designate critical habitat for the southern distinct population segment (DPS) of Pacific eulachon. The agency listed these fish as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in March of last year.
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Published: January 6, 2011
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NOAA has released a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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Published: December 22, 2010
Updated: January 6, 2011
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A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.
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