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NOAA cuts could hobble summer Bering Sea trawl surveys in Alaska

'We're losing a lot of manpower. Our field office has completely lost the ability to support observers and evaluate their data' -- Morgan Saladino, former NOAA Fisheries biologist

By Undercurrent News | March 24, 2025 14:47 GMT
The NOAA research vessel Oscar Dyson docked in Kodiak, Alaska in 2011. (Photo by James Brooks via Creative Commons)
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Cuts to US government staffers and scientists managing federal fisheries have caused alarm in the US state of Alaska, where there are fears that scientific surveys and field observers key to managing stocks will be disrupted, reports the Alaska radio station KUCB [...]

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