Appeals Court backs NMFS decision rejecting Alaska effort to remove ringed seal protections, reports Yereth Rosen, @yjrosen.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/appea...
Appeals Court backs NMFS decision rejecting Alaska effort to remove ringed seal protections | Alaska Beacon
The 9th Circuit uphold a lower court ruling and said the agency was reasonable in rejecting delisting of ringed seals.
alaskabeacon.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Appeals Court backs NMFS decision rejecting Alaska effort to remove ringed seal protections, reports Yereth Rosen, @yjrosen.bsky.social, of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/appea...
Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
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May 17, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Two days remain to comment on the US FWS and NMFS rule change that undermines the Endangered Species Act (ESA). This proposal rescinds the definition of “harm,” limiting protections to actions that directly injure or kill listed species, leaving their habitats vulnerable. Please submit comments! 🧪
This collaborative effort to understand orca health helps us to better protect killer whales and the oceans they depend on.
🎥: NMFS EPA Permit #26288-01
#worldwhaleday
🎥: NMFS EPA Permit #26288-01
#worldwhaleday
February 16, 2026 at 1:32 AM
This collaborative effort to understand orca health helps us to better protect killer whales and the oceans they depend on.
🎥: NMFS EPA Permit #26288-01
#worldwhaleday
🎥: NMFS EPA Permit #26288-01
#worldwhaleday
#Whaling left #NorthAtlantic #rightwhales functionally #extinct. #WHOI scientist Michael Moore says modern-day threats are just as dangerous as harpoons.
📲Dive into the issues with @nytimes.com: go.whoi.edu/NYT-Moore...
📸 NOAA NMFS permit 2137 © WHOI
📲Dive into the issues with @nytimes.com: go.whoi.edu/NYT-Moore...
📸 NOAA NMFS permit 2137 © WHOI
January 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#Whaling left #NorthAtlantic #rightwhales functionally #extinct. #WHOI scientist Michael Moore says modern-day threats are just as dangerous as harpoons.
📲Dive into the issues with @nytimes.com: go.whoi.edu/NYT-Moore...
📸 NOAA NMFS permit 2137 © WHOI
📲Dive into the issues with @nytimes.com: go.whoi.edu/NYT-Moore...
📸 NOAA NMFS permit 2137 © WHOI
Nooooo :(
I’m sure lots of scientists and conservationists at the NMFS aren’t happy with this decision smh
I’m sure lots of scientists and conservationists at the NMFS aren’t happy with this decision smh
March 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
Nooooo :(
I’m sure lots of scientists and conservationists at the NMFS aren’t happy with this decision smh
I’m sure lots of scientists and conservationists at the NMFS aren’t happy with this decision smh
🐬🩵 A beautiful new someone! Hello baby L129!
CWR @whaleresearch.bsky.social announced a new cal in L pod, first seen earlier this week. (Report in replies)
Super awesome dorsal & saddle patch on this little one.
📷: © Center for Whale Research
Photos taken under NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
#psws
CWR @whaleresearch.bsky.social announced a new cal in L pod, first seen earlier this week. (Report in replies)
Super awesome dorsal & saddle patch on this little one.
📷: © Center for Whale Research
Photos taken under NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
#psws
February 19, 2026 at 3:45 PM
🐬🩵 A beautiful new someone! Hello baby L129!
CWR @whaleresearch.bsky.social announced a new cal in L pod, first seen earlier this week. (Report in replies)
Super awesome dorsal & saddle patch on this little one.
📷: © Center for Whale Research
Photos taken under NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
#psws
CWR @whaleresearch.bsky.social announced a new cal in L pod, first seen earlier this week. (Report in replies)
Super awesome dorsal & saddle patch on this little one.
📷: © Center for Whale Research
Photos taken under NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
#psws
Hello everyone! I thought I’d start a 101 on #NOAA for you. It’s a complex agency. To begin, NOAA is in the Department of Commerce. NOAA has six “Line Offices” that have distinct missions. These office are: NWS, OAR, NOS, NESDIS, NMFS, and OMAO. Each line has “programs.”
September 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Hello everyone! I thought I’d start a 101 on #NOAA for you. It’s a complex agency. To begin, NOAA is in the Department of Commerce. NOAA has six “Line Offices” that have distinct missions. These office are: NWS, OAR, NOS, NESDIS, NMFS, and OMAO. Each line has “programs.”
This is fucking bullshit. Stay away from the NWS, NOAA, and NMFS you fucking goons.
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:22 AM
This is fucking bullshit. Stay away from the NWS, NOAA, and NMFS you fucking goons.
This is why lagoon/bar-built estuary breaching is highly regulated, and requires permits from numerous resource/regulatory agencies (USACE, USFWS, NMFS, RWQCB, CDFW, CCC). The Russian River here in Sonoma County is one of the few places where it's allowed, and only in limited circumstances.
July 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This is why lagoon/bar-built estuary breaching is highly regulated, and requires permits from numerous resource/regulatory agencies (USACE, USFWS, NMFS, RWQCB, CDFW, CCC). The Russian River here in Sonoma County is one of the few places where it's allowed, and only in limited circumstances.
A federal appeals court has affirmed the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2024 decision rejecting attempts to strip Arctic ringed seals of Endangered Species Act protections. (via @alaskabeacon.com) www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Appeals court backs NMFS decision rejecting Alaska effort to remove ringed seal protections
The state and the North Slope Borough had been seeking to compel NMFS to delist ringed seals, meaning remove the threatened listing status that had been enacted in 2012.
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July 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
A federal appeals court has affirmed the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2024 decision rejecting attempts to strip Arctic ringed seals of Endangered Species Act protections. (via @alaskabeacon.com) www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
✨UPDATE✨
Additions:
+14 National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Program Offices
+23 National Ocean Service (NOS) Program Offices
Will double check the Fisheries (NMFS) program offices tomorrow!
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
Additions:
+14 National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Program Offices
+23 National Ocean Service (NOS) Program Offices
Will double check the Fisheries (NMFS) program offices tomorrow!
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
Just updated the spreadsheet with ~130 more NWS offices! Enjoy 😊
cc: @postcards4ca.bsky.social @generousbrooklyn.bsky.social @savenoaa.bsky.social
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
cc: @postcards4ca.bsky.social @generousbrooklyn.bsky.social @savenoaa.bsky.social
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
March 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
✨UPDATE✨
Additions:
+14 National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Program Offices
+23 National Ocean Service (NOS) Program Offices
Will double check the Fisheries (NMFS) program offices tomorrow!
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
Additions:
+14 National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Program Offices
+23 National Ocean Service (NOS) Program Offices
Will double check the Fisheries (NMFS) program offices tomorrow!
💙 @noaa.gov 🌊
Orcas living in the Salish Sea are making exfoliating brushes out of kelp, a new paper reports. Not bad for an animal with no hands https://econ.trib.al/uvVQnr8
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
June 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Orcas living in the Salish Sea are making exfoliating brushes out of kelp, a new paper reports. Not bad for an animal with no hands https://econ.trib.al/uvVQnr8
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
Last day to send comments for this. Please do it.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Rescinding the Definition of “Harm” Under the Endangered Species Act
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of "harm" ...
www.federalregister.gov
May 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Last day to send comments for this. Please do it.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
A sure sign of spring in New England: the return of North Atlantic right whales & their new calves! 🐳
Bocce and her newborn, seen here, were spotted in Cape Cod Bay on March 19. With a population of only about 380, every calf is a reason to celebrate!🎉
📸 Michael Moore/WHOI/NMFS Permit 27066
Bocce and her newborn, seen here, were spotted in Cape Cod Bay on March 19. With a population of only about 380, every calf is a reason to celebrate!🎉
📸 Michael Moore/WHOI/NMFS Permit 27066
March 20, 2026 at 3:59 PM
A sure sign of spring in New England: the return of North Atlantic right whales & their new calves! 🐳
Bocce and her newborn, seen here, were spotted in Cape Cod Bay on March 19. With a population of only about 380, every calf is a reason to celebrate!🎉
📸 Michael Moore/WHOI/NMFS Permit 27066
Bocce and her newborn, seen here, were spotted in Cape Cod Bay on March 19. With a population of only about 380, every calf is a reason to celebrate!🎉
📸 Michael Moore/WHOI/NMFS Permit 27066
Conservation groups applaud First Circuit Court of Appeals decision to reinstate a 2024 National Marine Fisheries Service rule that protects endangered North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear entanglements — one of two major threats to the species’ survival and recovery. dfnd.us/4jEqfJu
First Circuit Decision Reinstates Rule Protecting Right Whales
Conservation groups applaud a First Circuit Court of Appeals decision reinstating a 2024 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) rule that protects critically endangered North Atlantic right whales f...
dfnd.us
January 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Conservation groups applaud First Circuit Court of Appeals decision to reinstate a 2024 National Marine Fisheries Service rule that protects endangered North Atlantic right whales from fishing gear entanglements — one of two major threats to the species’ survival and recovery. dfnd.us/4jEqfJu
When I was a commercial fisheries observer for NMFS (NOAA), back early 90s, I saw Molas LITERALLY big as barn doors 😲
#yuge funny & adorable critters 🥰
#yuge funny & adorable critters 🥰
Wheel Green
ALT: Wheel Green
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October 6, 2026 at 12:27 AM
When I was a commercial fisheries observer for NMFS (NOAA), back early 90s, I saw Molas LITERALLY big as barn doors 😲
#yuge funny & adorable critters 🥰
#yuge funny & adorable critters 🥰
Let's get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🔊 25
The number of distinct calls scientists discovered Hawaiian monk seals make.
📷 Mark Sullivan, NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, 2014
Photo collected under NMFS Research Permit
🔊 25
The number of distinct calls scientists discovered Hawaiian monk seals make.
📷 Mark Sullivan, NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, 2014
Photo collected under NMFS Research Permit
March 18, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Let's get statistically sea-nificant 🧮
🔊 25
The number of distinct calls scientists discovered Hawaiian monk seals make.
📷 Mark Sullivan, NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, 2014
Photo collected under NMFS Research Permit
🔊 25
The number of distinct calls scientists discovered Hawaiian monk seals make.
📷 Mark Sullivan, NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program, 2014
Photo collected under NMFS Research Permit
Happy #NationalDolphinDay🐬! We love our dolphins in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay!
Studying these dolphins informs conservation and management of our beautiful Potomac-Chesapeake region.
Video by Ari Solomon under NOAA NMFS GA No. 23782
#MarMam 🌏 #Science #dolphins
Studying these dolphins informs conservation and management of our beautiful Potomac-Chesapeake region.
Video by Ari Solomon under NOAA NMFS GA No. 23782
#MarMam 🌏 #Science #dolphins
April 14, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Happy #NationalDolphinDay🐬! We love our dolphins in the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay!
Studying these dolphins informs conservation and management of our beautiful Potomac-Chesapeake region.
Video by Ari Solomon under NOAA NMFS GA No. 23782
#MarMam 🌏 #Science #dolphins
Studying these dolphins informs conservation and management of our beautiful Potomac-Chesapeake region.
Video by Ari Solomon under NOAA NMFS GA No. 23782
#MarMam 🌏 #Science #dolphins
Success! Our fearless leader @drmichellelarue.bsky.social, along with @rachelholser.bsky.social deployed all 10 tags on Weddell seals in the Ross Sea! Photo by Dan Costa. NMFS permit #25770
November 26, 2024 at 8:23 AM
Success! Our fearless leader @drmichellelarue.bsky.social, along with @rachelholser.bsky.social deployed all 10 tags on Weddell seals in the Ross Sea! Photo by Dan Costa. NMFS permit #25770
NMFS raises Gulf red grouper catch limits and ends recreational seasonal closure
NMFS raises Gulf red grouper catch limits and ends recreational seasonal closure
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a final rule that raises catch limits for Gulf of America red grouper.
headwaterswire.com
October 6, 2026 at 12:16 PM
NMFS raises Gulf red grouper catch limits and ends recreational seasonal closure
The first ever white shark tag recapture in the Atlantic, as reported in The Fisherman magazine c. 1984. The NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program has been running for over 50 years! @shellspc.bsky.social
April 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The first ever white shark tag recapture in the Atlantic, as reported in The Fisherman magazine c. 1984. The NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program has been running for over 50 years! @shellspc.bsky.social
Orcas living in the Salish Sea are making exfoliating brushes out of kelp, a new paper reports. Not bad for an animal with no hands https://econ.trib.al/Og6KeEE
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
June 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Orcas living in the Salish Sea are making exfoliating brushes out of kelp, a new paper reports. Not bad for an animal with no hands https://econ.trib.al/Og6KeEE
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
Photo: Center for Whale Research/NMFS/NOAA Permit 27038
🦭WHOI researchers are studying the long-term impacts of Weddell seals' extreme pup-training regimen— for both moms and their offspring.
🤿 Dive in with @popsci.com: go.whoi.edu/popsci-pup
📸 courtesy of Luis Huckstadt/University of Exeter under NMFS Permit 19439 & Michele Shero/WHOI
🤿 Dive in with @popsci.com: go.whoi.edu/popsci-pup
📸 courtesy of Luis Huckstadt/University of Exeter under NMFS Permit 19439 & Michele Shero/WHOI
July 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
🦭WHOI researchers are studying the long-term impacts of Weddell seals' extreme pup-training regimen— for both moms and their offspring.
🤿 Dive in with @popsci.com: go.whoi.edu/popsci-pup
📸 courtesy of Luis Huckstadt/University of Exeter under NMFS Permit 19439 & Michele Shero/WHOI
🤿 Dive in with @popsci.com: go.whoi.edu/popsci-pup
📸 courtesy of Luis Huckstadt/University of Exeter under NMFS Permit 19439 & Michele Shero/WHOI
US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act
US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act
A group of environmental organizations announced their intent to sue the United States National Marine Fisheries Services (NMFS) for failing to consider protections for Eastern Pacific gray whales…
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August 27, 2026 at 7:03 PM
US environmental groups plan to sue to relist gray whales under Endangered Species Act