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NOAA has awarded a $95.4 million contract to a Seward shipyard for major upgrades to the fisheries survey vessel Oscar Dyson.

Here's her statement .

Here's the White House announcement and an OSU press release .

Federal authorities say the F/V Castaway unlawfully fished with longline gear in a coral habitat protection area. They're proposing a $1...

An Anchorage resident who took customers fishing without the required halibut charter permit will pay a $15,000 fine to settle an enforcemen...

Federal enforcement officials have charged the owner and operator of the F/V Pacific Challenger with fishing for Pacific cod in the Western ...

NOAA has posted its draft enforcement priorities for 2013. Alaska priorities are on pages 4-5. Among "high priority" items: •...

Jane Lubchenco reportedly will step down  in February as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA is the parent a...

The American Dynasty in Dutch Harbor. Jim Paulin photo The first we heard of a potential scandal involving the Bering Sea pollock factory...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, believes President Obama's proposal to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from the ...

A trio of federal agencies today issued this fact sheet concluding that seafood imports and U.S. fishing grounds are free of contamination ...

The research vessel Miller Freeman. NOAA photo Quite a battle has been playing out in recent months about where the National Oceanic and At...

Jane Lubchenco , head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is planning a swing through Alaska later this month. "She...