Crude oil and Atlantic haddock
August 10, 2016 —
Scientists from the NWFSC and Norway published a new study showing how brief exposures of Atlantic haddock eggs to low concentration of crude oil can cause extreme and usually deadly deformities. Atlantic haddock are especially vulnerable because dispersed oil droplets can bind to their eggs as they float in the ocean. Deformities in the developing heart and skull were found even under exposures as short as 24 hours.
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Aquaculture Program Review
July 21, 2016 —
NMFS Science Centers are conducting reviews of their marine aquaculture programs that are designed to evaluate the quality, relevance, and performance of research and development supported and conducted by the agency. The Northwest Fisheries Science Center review is being held at our Montlake campus July 26-29, 2016.
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Oregon beavers engineer better streams, more fish
July 14, 2016 —
An ecological experiment that employed beavers to restore streams in Central Oregon found that the streams produced nearly twice as many juvenile steelhead within a few years after the beavers went to work. The results of the study were published in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports.
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Ecosystem Science Program Review
July 12, 2016 —
All NMFS Science Centers are conducting reviews of their Ecosystem Science Programs that are designed to provide information relative to the management, protection and restoration of resilient and productive ecosystems. Ecosystem-related science programs research ecological, oceanographic, climate and habitat-related processes as they are linked to living marine resource species. The Northwest Fisheries Science Center review is being held at our Montlake campus Tuesday 7/12 - Thursday 7/14.
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