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AWA's Kenai Peninsula Coordinator wins NOAA Partners in the Spotlight award!

AWA's Kenai Peninsula Coordinator wins NOAA Partners in the Spotlight award!

Our Kenai Peninsula Coordinator, Teresa Becher, was just awarded a 2023 'Partners in the Spotlight Award' from NOAA fisheries! These national awards recognize partners who have expanded and enhanced recovery of the country's most imperiled marine species.

Victory! Reducing halibut trawl bycatch in the Bering Sea

Victory! Reducing halibut trawl bycatch in the Bering Sea

Never before have Alaskans from all regions and sectors come together in this way to support unified action to protect our fisheries and communities. On Monday, the council voted to tie trawl fleet bycatch limits to the halibut population, and caps bycatch by as much as 35 percent.

Petition to Protect Lower Cook Inlet Wildlife

Petition to Protect Lower Cook Inlet Wildlife

Sign the petition to protect Lower Cook Inlet!

In the News: Beluga whale monitoring efforts looking for winter sightings in Kenai, Kasilof rivers and in lower Cook Inlet

In the News: Beluga whale monitoring efforts looking for winter sightings in Kenai, Kasilof rivers and in lower Cook Inlet

An article about our citizen science partnership to monitor critically endangered Cook Inlet Beluga Whales. By Teresa Becher for the Homer News.

Comment to support critical habitat designations for ringed and bearded seals

Comment to support critical habitat designations for ringed and bearded seals

NOAA Fisheries is proposing to designate critical habitat in U.S. waters off the coast of Alaska for Arctic ringed seals and the Beringia distinct population of bearded seals. Both species are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).