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Topic: Marine mammals

Photo of a one-year-old endangered female Steller sea lion back with mom after a successful entanglement response in 2023. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Kim Raum-Suryan, NOAA permit No. 24359.

Déjà vu: Another Steller sea lion is rescued in Kodiak, Alaska

July 26, 2024

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Photo of a one-year-old endangered female Steller sea lion back with mom after a successful entanglement response in 2023. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Kim Raum-Suryan, NOAA permit No. 24359.

Photo showing the Makah Tribe in a wooden canoe used to hunt whales at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula in 1900. Photo courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122.

NOAA Fisheries authorizes Makah Tribe to resume gray whale hunt

June 13, 2024

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Tribal Nations and Indigenous Peoples

Photo showing the Makah Tribe in a wooden canoe used to hunt whales at Neah Bay on the Olympic Peninsula in 1900. Photo courtesy Museum of History and Industry, Negative Number 88.33.122.

Welcome to noaa.gov

Marine Mammal Inventory Reports

March 5, 2024

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Welcome to noaa.gov

Common bottlenose dolphins are found throughout the world in both offshore and coastal waters, including harbors, bays, gulfs, and estuaries of temperate and tropical waters.

Podcast: 50 years of protecting marine mammals

February 6, 2023

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Common bottlenose dolphins are found throughout the world in both offshore and coastal waters, including harbors, bays, gulfs, and estuaries of temperate and tropical waters.

Chinook salmon underwater.

Consultations and permitting

May 23, 2022

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Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Magnuson-Stevens Act

habitat restoration

endangered species

Chinook salmon underwater.

Two polar bears on a patch of Arctic ice

Study finds strong marine heatwaves in the Arctic

February 2, 2022

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Two polar bears on a patch of Arctic ice

Laura Dias photographing bottlenose dolphins during a photo-identification project.

Meet a marine mammal scientist

June 9, 2021

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Laura Dias photographing bottlenose dolphins during a photo-identification project.

A spotted seal rests on Arctic ice.

14 surprising seal facts

March 23, 2021

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A spotted seal rests on Arctic ice.

A white and gray spotted seal mother and pup in the Bering Sea.

Condition of seals declined during rapid warming in Alaska

February 3, 2021

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A white and gray spotted seal mother and pup in the Bering Sea.

Ice seals — ribbon, ringed, spotted, and bearded (like the one shown here) — are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for pupping, resting and completing their annual molt.

NOAA proposes critical habitat for ringed and bearded seals in U.S. Arctic

January 15, 2021

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Ice seals — ribbon, ringed, spotted, and bearded (like the one shown here) — are dependent on the Arctic sea ice for pupping, resting and completing their annual molt.

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