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Feds release Calif. plan to protect chinook salmon
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal fisheries regulators on Thursday released a court-ordered plan to help struggling chinook salmon that includes opening California dams and restricting pumping, which would reduce the amount of water available ...
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NOAA bans commercial harvesting of krill
Jul 13, 2009 |
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today published a final rule in the Federal Register prohibiting the harvesting of krill in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off the coasts of California, Oregon, ...
Researchers Survey Mid-Atlantic Ridge Looking For New Forms of Marine Life, Clues to Deep-Sea Communities
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers is surveying the Mid-Atlantic Ridge halfway between Iceland and the Azores to determine its biodiversity and perhaps discover new species and clues to ...
Blue whales re-establishing former migration patterns: research (w/Video)
May 11, 2009 |
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Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965.
Critically endangered porpoise is focus of new research report
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Jan 15, 2008 |
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An international research team, including biologists from NOAA’s Fisheries Service, reported in the scientific journal Conservation Biology, that the estimated population of vaquita, a porpoise found in the Gulf of Califo ...
Lagoon size can be predicted
Nov 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The size of Santa Barbara area lagoons can be predicted, according to a new study by UC Santa Barbara scientists, who say that their research could help protect the endangered steelhead trout.
Dry Tortugas show positive trends: Protected area slowly rebounding
Jun 23, 2008 |
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[B]Multi-agency effort a collaborative success in integrated ecosystem assessment[/B] A team of 38 research divers from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, NOA ...
Study provides new insights into marine ecosystems and fisheries production
Sep 30, 2009 |
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NOAA and Norwegian researchers recently completed a comparative analysis of marine ecosystems in the North Atlantic and North Pacific to see what factors support fisheries production, leading to new insights that could improve ...
Unfavorable ocean conditions likely cause of low 2007 salmon returns along West Coast
Mar 03, 2008 |
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NOAA scientists are reviewing unusual environmental conditions in the Pacific Ocean as the likely culprit for the dramatically low returns of Chinook and coho salmon to rivers and streams along the West Coast of the United ...
'Hot spot' for toxic harmful algal blooms discovered off Washington coast
Jan 30, 2009 |
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A part of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, which separates Washington state from Canada's British Columbia, is a potential "hot spot" for toxic harmful algal blooms affecting the Washington and British Columbia coasts.
Briefs: No conclusion in whale stranding study
Mar 30, 2006 |
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The National Marine Fisheries Service says it cannot determine if Navy sonar caused 36 whales to become stranded on the North Carolina shore last year.
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