Rainy work. The fish don't care when it's sunny. Hauling in an anchor in during ROV survey.

Working at the ROV control station during a high-tech skiff survey.

Retrieval of Phantom ROV. Kelp is an obstacle for the ROV.

Retrieving a bottom-temperature probe by SCUBA diver.

Preparing for a SCUBA dive in cold water to retrieve a temperature probe.

Sorting herring caught during an acoustic trawl survey of Lynn Canal.

Trawl catch of pollock caught during an acoustic trawl survey.

Trawling in winter. Tough work! Working the trawl during a winter snow storm. Conducting an overwinter herring acoustic trawl survey.

Sampling beach seine catch.

Setting a trawl in Stephens Passage

Beach seining.

A large haul of sandlance caught during beach seining operations.

A large stack of commercial king crab pots observed at Kodiak.

Sorting trawl caught juvenile pollock during a acoustic trawl survey.

Sorting the small species caught during an acoustic trawl survey.

Trawl deck during a snow storm during winter operations.

Smooth lumpsuckers caught during trawling operations.

Acoustic fine being towed at about 7 knots during an acoustic survey

David Csepp and 38 kHz hydroacoustic tow fin used to conduct acoustic surveys

Rocky cliff with kelp at waterline.

Stack of commercial crab pots

A commercial longline rack rigged with commercial gear ready to be baited on a commercial fishing vessel in the Gulf of Alaska.

A commercial longline rack rigged with commercial gear ready to be baited on a commercial fishing vessel in the Gulf of Alaska.

An X-ray of a Bigmouth Manefish .

A trawl catch of myctophids and glass shrimp from a layer associated with the bottom at greater than 200 meters depth.

Plankton multinet deployed for a NPRB survey.

Trawl catch of rockfish and sablefish

Trawl caught rockfish processed and frozen ready to be boxed.

NOAA Fisheries Service employees Pat Williams, Bren Haas, and Kelly Shotts prepare to be dunked in a Helicopter Egress Training water landing simulation. Fisheries employees are often utilize helicopters for observation of fish stocks, marine mammals, and other purposes.

Mixed species from a catch.

Snapper samples after filleting for tissue samples obtained from sport fishermen.

Tailgate sampling for tissue samples obtained from sport fishermen.

Sampling gangions affixed to the starboard side of the F/V AGGRESSOR.

Vertical setline gangion aboard F/V NIKKI J .

Jen Cramer and Chris Harvey working off Catalina aboard the F/V MIRAGE during 2004 hook and line survey.

A mountain of dogfish caught during a trawl survey.

NOAA Fisheries employee Vanessa Tuttle poses with a large Shortspine thornyhead (Sebastolobus alascanus) caught during ground fish trawl survey aboard the F/V MS. JULIE.

NOAA Fisheries employees Keri York (left) and Melanie Johnson dissect the gonads out of a Greenstriped rockfish (Sebastes elongatus) caught during groundfish trawl survey aboard the F/V MS. JULIE.

NOAA Fisheries employees Vanessa Tuttle (left) and Suzanne Romain enter catch data from a tow during the groundfish survey caught during groundfish trawl survey aboard the F/V MS. JULIE.

NOAA Fisheries employees Melanie Johnson (left) and Keri York (right), assisted by 2nd Mate/fisherman Darrin Olson, finish sorting a tow during the groundfish trawl survey aboard the F/V MS. JULIE.

Pete Sheridan holding a turtle for people at our local Bay Day Festival held annually.

NOAA Galveston Lab buildings.

Morning light on Galveston lab's building 302.

Lush seagrass beds off Xcalak, Mexico.

Hugh Finn looking through the Big Eye binoculars aboard the NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette on a PISC cetacean research cruise.

McGuire entering sighting info on Pacific Islands Science Center cetacean abundance survey aboard the NOAA ship Oscar Elton Sette.

Columbia River Estuary seine sampling for juvenile Chinook salmon for mark- recapture to evaluate residency time. Seine boat and crew. Planning next step.

Columbia River Estuary seine sampling for juvenile Chinook salmon for mark- recapture to evaluate residency time. Stick seine with 2 crew.

Columbia River Estuary seine sampling for juvenile Chinook salmon for mark- recapture to evaluate residency time. Onsite marking station.

Crew releasing radio-tagged Chinook salmon below Lower Monumental Dam.