NOAA Fisheries

Belugas Count! is back this weekend after a two-year break. At the Kenai viewing station, the chances of seeing a Cook Inlet beluga whale tomorrow are high, and scientists will be at the station to answer questions.

The plan lays out 22 goals, created through interviews with stakeholders across the state, meant to guide the organization for the next five years.

Biologists say they’re picking up the pace on research to better understand the issue of salmon bycatch in Alaska. They're hoping advances in genetics technology will help them do that work much quicker — which , in turn, could inform more up-to-date policy decisions.

A $132 million package of federal relief funds is heading to Alaska fishermen and researchers to offset what’s known as fishing disasters in the state.

Four vessels are heading into the Gulf of Alaska this winter to study the impacts of climate change on Pacific salmon.The expedition is not the first…

Alaska has an ambitious goal — turn its growing mariculture business into a $100 million industry by 2040.It has a long way to go. But federal and state…

A large swath of Upper Cook Inlet will officially be closed to commercial salmon fishing next summer.The feds released a final rule this week adopting the…

When a heat wave swept through the northeast Pacific ocean between 2014 and 2016, it changed the marine makeup of the Gulf of Alaska. The warm water…

A federal permit allowing Hilcorp to drill in Cook Inlet does not account for the harm vessel noise could pose to endangered belugas there, according to a…

The beluga population in Cook Inlet is not bouncing back and scientists are trying to figure out why.First, they need to know more about the population. A…