NOAA-funded researchers have identified a new record size coral colony at Ta’u Island in American Samoa, even larger than the island’s Big Momma colony, one of the largest in the world.
Royal Research Ship (RRS) Discovery has departed Southampton to measure one of the world’s largest system of ocean currents, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
Once mostly discarded in the American lobster fishery, Jonah crab landings are now growing. More biological and fishery data are needed to support stock assessments. Fishermen are leading the way.