In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, we are highlighting some of our colleagues who contribute to NOAA Fisheries' core missions every day. Learn more about them and their careers in science and fisheries management.

NOAA recently launched an agency-wide effort to gather public input on section 216(c) of the Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. The executive order directs NOAA to collect recommendations on how to make fisheries—including aquaculture—and protected resources more resilient to climate change. This includes changes in management and conservation measures and improvements in science, monitoring, and cooperative research.

Acting NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator Paul Doremus highlights NOAA’s role in preventing illegal, unregulated, and unreported fish and fish products from entering U.S. markets.

Climate change is impacting the ecosystem of the Gulf of Alaska and effects are expected to magnify as warming increases over the coming decades. During the past 6 years, the Gulf of Alaska has been experiencing extended and severe marine heatwaves.

Endangered Southern Resident killer whales prey on a diversity of Chinook and other salmon. A new analysis shows the stocks come from an enormous geographic range as far north as Alaska and as far south as California’s Central Valley.

Through a NOAA Veterans Corps internship, Air Force veteran Tillie Smith will begin a new journey restoring habitat and resources in Puget Sound, and gaining scientific experience to build a career in natural resources.

The group of agencies charged with restoring Louisiana’s natural resources after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is seeking public input on a draft restoration plan. The plan proposes investing up to $2 billion in the Mid-Barataria sediment diversion project.

This story map shows seal strandings in the Greater Atlantic Region and highlights the organizations that provide emergency response and rehabilitation for stranded seals.