Nathan Strout

U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated former NOAA Acting Administrator Neil Jacobs to lead the agency once again.

Jacobs was first named acting administrator in 2018 following then-Acting Administrator Timothy Gallaudet’s decision to relinquish the role. While Trump did nominate him to formally lead the agency, his nomination was never approved by the full Senate. Jacobs left the government in 2022.

Then-President Joe Biden replaced

U.S. support for sustainable foreign fisheries is among the humanitarian government programs thrown into jeopardy by the Trump administrations attempt to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

“Our programs are at risk,” Byron Bay, Australia-based conservation group Positive Change for Marine Life said in a social media post. “The Trump administration’s freeze on all USAID-funded programs has

The U.S. Coast Guard captured a lancha crew in the Gulf of Mexico with 200 pounds of fish illegally harvested in U.S. federal waters.

According to the U.S. government, Mexican fishers frequently use lanchas – fast 20-30-foot-long vessels – to cross into the United States’ Exclusive Economic Zone, harvest red snapper illegally, and then bring their fish back to Mexico. Often, the red snapper is then brought back over the U.S.

The Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) claims that 96 percent of the shrimp tested at restaurants in Tampa and St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A., was imported, despite being largely marketed as domestic product.

DNA testing conducted by Houston, Texas, U.S.A.-based SEAD Consulting found that of 44 restaurants sampled, only two – Salt Shack on the Bay in Tampa and Stillwaters Tavern in St. Petersburg – were confirmed to be serving local

The U.S. state of Washington is set to open the northern portion of its coast to commercial Dungeness crab harvesting after delaying the season for weeks due to low meat yields.

Washington officials first notified crabbers that the season would be delayed in November after testing revealed that crabs in multiple areas of the state did not reach the state’s criteria for minimum meat yields. Officials were forced to push back the season's

United States senators have introduced legislation that would task the federal government with developing a new methodology for identifying where tuna and red snapper sold in the U.S. originated from.

If passed, the Illegal Red Snapper and Tuna Enforcement Act would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and NOAA with creating a field test kit that uses a chemical agent to determine whether red snapper or certain

The Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs have rejected its portion of a CAD 259 million (USD 180 million, EUR 172 million) offer from the Canadian government to support commercial fisheries access, claiming the funding undermines their treaty rights

“This proposal raises serious alarms,” Chief Wilbert Marshall, co-lead of the assembly’s fisheries portfolio, said in a statement. “[The Department of Fisheries and

Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have passed a bill directing NOAA Fisheries to establish a task force to tackle shark depredation – the partial or complete removal of a hooked fish from an angler’s line by a shark.

The Supporting the Health of Aquatic systems through Research, Knowledge, and Enhanced Dialogue (SHARKED) Act was first introduced in 2023 and initially passed the House in February 2024. However, the