• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2026-02-05T17:29:06.000+00:00

The Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Survey, conducted by the Conservation Ecology Branch at the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, develops abundance and distribution models that incorporate...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Real-time price data collected by the Boston Market News Reporter. The NOAA Fisheries' "Fishery Market News" began operations in New York City on February 14, 1938. The primary function of this...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:03.000+00:00

Typically, commercial fishing businesses incur three major types of costs: fixed or annual costs; which are incurred annually irrespective of whether any fishing activity takes place; variable...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-08T18:26:25.000+00:00

The NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center has, through the years, accumulated an extensive data base of qualitative and quantitative (wet weight and number per square meter) data on the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-08T21:27:38.000+00:00

In the spring of 2009, Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) replaced the previous standard bottom trawl gear (Yankee 36) with a new standard survey trawl designed in close collaboration with...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2026-02-05T17:29:45.000+00:00

The NEFSC has been conducting aerial surveys of gray seal pupping colonies since 2005 to monitor the number of pups born in U.S. waters. Surveys are flown from either a Cessna 252, Cessna...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2026-02-05T17:30:10.000+00:00

Scientists at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) are using environmental DNA (eDNA) to identify fish communities and monitor ecosystems by collecting a water sample and analyzing...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2026-02-05T17:29:20.000+00:00

The North Atlantic Right Whale Aerial Survey is a NOAA Fisheries program conducted by the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, which conducts aerial surveys to locate and record the seasonal...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:03.000+00:00

Scientific justification: Canadian and US stock assessments for Atlantic cod indicate considerable fluctuation in stock abundance and recruitment over the last 20 years. This recovering resource...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

The Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Social Sciences Branch (SSB) completed the second wave of a survey of crew, including hired captains, participating in commercial fisheries in the New...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:16.000+00:00

The Northeast Fisheries Science Center's Social Sciences Branch (SSB) completed a survey of crew, including hired captains, participating in commercial fisheries in the New England and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:03.000+00:00

Responses to selected questions from the Social and Economic Survey administered in spring and summer 2000 to recipients of the second round (Round II) of financial assistance in the Northeast...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-05-15T19:16:03.000+00:00

Quota allocations to groups of self-selecting permit holders (known as sector allocations) are increasingly being considered as a way to provide fishermen with greater control and flexibility in...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

One-time collection of interviews of Groundfish and Scallop Processors conducted in 2014

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-08T21:47:23.000+00:00

NOAA's NEFSC collects fisheries data from the Penobscot Estuary using several types of fishing gear. The data is used to determine species presence, relative numbers, and migration timing for...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Apex Predators Program staff have collected vertebral centra from sportfishing tournaments, cruises, commercial fishermen and strandings in the Northeast US since the 1960's. This offers a unique...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-08T21:30:45.000+00:00

The "Gulf of Maine Atlantic Cod Industry-Based Survey" was a collaboration of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries and the fishing industry, with support from NOAA Fisheries. The goal of...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2025-10-08T21:29:29.000+00:00

The "Southern New England Yellowtail Flounder Industry-Based Survey" was a collaboration between the Rhode Island Division of Fish and Wildlife and the fishing industry, with support from NOAA...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

Annual data are collected as part of smolt trapping operations using fish trapping methods. Traps collect emigrating salmon smolts to identify cohort bio-characteristics, run timing information,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2024-02-29T00:00:00.000+00:00

We collect seasonal and annual temperature measurements on an hourly or quarter hourly basis to monitor habitat suitability for ATS and other species. Temperature data supports varying projects...

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