CNN reports the Trump administration's proposed budget "severely defunds" key offices of NOAA including the National Marine Fisheries Service and "transfers most of the fisheries service functions to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which sits under the Interior Department."
NMFS currently is part of the Commerce Department.
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Here's another story from NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361366/major-budget-cuts-proposed-for-the-national-oceanic-and-atmospheric-administration
Back to where it belongs, from 1871, and after Richard Nixon moved it to Commerce and renamed it NMFS in 1970.
https://www.fws.gov/history-of-fws
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