California state and federal managers are using NOAA information and tools to develop environmentally sustainable offshore finfish aquaculture in the Southern California Bight - an industry with the potential to ...

Technology and methodsforaquaculture of marine fin fish have improved, reducing impacts to water quality. Credit: Blue Ocean Mariculture. Scientists with NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) found that ...

Lionfish are native to the Indo-Pacific, but are now established along the southeast coast of the U.S., the Caribbean, and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NOAA. The ...

Sub-surface view from below a net pen. Net pens enclose commercial fish raised for market, such as salmon, keeping them in coastal waters while separating them from wild populations. Advances ...

First reported in the 1980s, the venomous Indo-Pacific lionfish (Pterois miles and P. volitans) is widely established along the Southeast U.S. and Caribbean. Now invading the Gulf of Mexico and ...

Aquaculture supplies more than half of the world's seafood, and that share is expected to grow in the coming decades. Research shows that aquaculture is sustainable if properly managed. To ...

Signing ceremony for the Seventh Meeting of the Korea -U.S. Joint Coordination Panel for Aquaculture Cooperation. Seated in front: Dr. Jeong-In Myeong, Korea Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Dr. Gene ...

NOAA scientists teamed up with soldiers from the U.S. Army Reserve to conduct research off the North Carolina coast. The research was conducted aboard the Army vessel Missionary Ridge, a ...

A recent episode of Aqua Kids, a children's television show that reaches over 90 million households, visited NCCOS's Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research in Beaufort, N.C., to learn ...

NCCOS researchers visit a commercial Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture netpen located a half mile from shore in Loch Linnhe, near the island of Lismore. The Scottish Association for Marine ...