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Welcome to the Northeast Fisheries Science Center

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Scientists from our Milford Laboratory in Connecticut check oyster aquaculture experiments in Long Island Sound. The team is studying the effects of aquaculture activities on habitat and ecology. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Heather Soulen, NEFSC. Learn more about Milford's aquaculture work »

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Woods Hole Science Aquarium

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Stock Assessments

Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop / Stock Assessment Review Committee »

2017 Northeast Groundfish Operational Assessments »

Hot off the Press

US Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal Stock Assessments -- 2016 »

Recent Headlines

9/22/2017
NOAA Ship Henry Bigelow Update »

9/19/2017
New Method to Estimate Abundance, Detect Trends in North Atlantic Right Whales Confirms Recent Population Decline »

9/19/2017
Estuarine Waters Home to Shark Nursery Habitat along East Coast »

9/19/2017
Where Have the Quahogs, and the Amphipods, Gone in Sandy Hook Bay? »

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