Salmon Mural Unveiling
September 14, 2018 —
NOAA Fisheries' West Coast Region has been working with a local youth group, Lake City Young Leaders, to create a salmon mural in Lake City. All are welcome to join the Lake City community on Thursday, September 20, from 5-7 pm to celebrate Puget Sound and its salmon.
DTAGs Help Us Study Killer Whales at Night
September 7, 2018 —
Researchers from NOAA Fisheries will soon begin studying the nighttime behavior of Southern Resident killer whales using digital acoustic recording tags (DTAGs), which attach to the whales with suction cups. The DTAGs will help us better understand how much time the whales spend foraging and their use of sound, and will inform policies that might better protect the whales from vessel noise. DTAGs usually remain on the whales for one or two days before falling off on their own.
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Southern Resident killer whale updates
August 20, 2018 —
Biologists are responding to an emaciated and ailing three year-old killer whale, J50 (also known as Scarlet), of the critically endangered Southern Resident population. Responders from NOAA Fisheries and partner organizations are working together to explore options and treatment. J35, an adult female (also known as Tahlequah), who carried her dead calf for over two weeks, is also being monitored.
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Robin Waples awarded 2018 Molecular Ecology Prize
August 14, 2018 —
The 2018 Molecular Ecology prize has been awarded to Robin Waples for his work on conservation biology and management, as the leading expert on approaches for using molecular markers to estimate and understand effective population size in natural populations and use of time series analyses. His studies have made important contributions to understanding fisheries populations and advanced the fields of conservation and evolutionary ecology.
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