This rebel design, representing the Alaska state bird: the willow ptarmigan, along with the Big Dipper and the North Star, was created to stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota and with ever...

Hybrids between blue (Balaenoptera musculus) and fin (B. physalus) whales have been reported since commercial whaling in the late 1800s. Even while species descriptions were still at their infancy, wh...

HOMER, Alaska — Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon…

Killer whales (Orcinus orca) are cosmopolitan, apex predators that sometimes interact with commercial fisheries. These fishery interactions can affect killer...

A new class of 11 Alaska Sea Grant State Fellows is preparing to start work around the state, including at the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Alaska Ma…

An international research effort, including scientists from the University of Washington, has finally revealed the cause of sea star wasting disease: a strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida.

Alaska’s congressman has proposed a truly heartless piece of legislation that would gut the remarkably successful Marine Mammal Protection Act.

It'll be a couple of updates before we see Orca and Bigfoot get the spotlight.

This open-access book explores the potential impacts of noise on marine mammal species such as whales, dolphins, seals, seacows, and otters.

Dear Illinois and Indiana congressional delegations: We, the undersigned constituents from Illinois and Indiana, are writing to urge your support for federal funding for the Sea Grant Program in fi...

This is Part 1 of a two-part series on fisheries management and ocean governance under the second Trump administration, which took office Jan. 20. Part 1 looks at the potential impacts that cuts and d...

Marine mammals, seabirds, and other species may be impacted by fishing activities through competition for prey, direct mortality, and disturbance. The Council

The Iceland Nature Conservation Association has filed a formal complaint with the Parliamentary Ombudsman regarding former Minister of Agriculture Bjarni Benediktsson’s decision to issue fin and minke...

The most probable scenario is an eruption similar to those in 1953 and 1992, each lasting hours and producing clouds of ash that circulated for hundreds of miles around Southcentral Alaska.

NOAA Fisheries has declined to release numbers on the scope of the cutback, which has left officials scrambling to track the force reductions.

The move to discontinue the $4.5 million grant program leaves 20 employees and the Sea Grant’s programming in limbo.