Janet Coit, Asst. Administrator for Fisheries, and special guests unpack how NOAA conserves and manages living marine resources, including endangered and threatened marine species.
SARAH JESTER : Welcome back to Planet NOAA! I’m your Planet NOAA Podcast producer and guest host Sarah Jester. Today, we’ll find out how NOAA scientists are working to conserve and manage living marine resources to keep our ocean – and all of its inhabitants – thriving.HOST: We’re back with Public Affairs Specialist, Climate Scientist, NOAA in the News correspondent, and dad joke connoisseur Tom DiLiberto.
BUSCH: I like the diversity of marine ecosystems, and how so much about marine species and ecosystems is still unknown. That makes our research here at NOAA really exciting. And it also makes effective translation of science to management of marine systems really important. This intersection between the science to understand amazing natural environments and how society impacts them is a real passion of mine.
HOST: Thanks, Jenny. We got to hear from the Pacific Marine Environmental Lab passive acoustics team about hydrophones and acoustic monitoring on an earlier episode of Planet NOAA – and listen to some really cool ocean noise recordings – so I’m glad to hear you bring up hydrophone arrays as a tool your team is using. Erica, I’d love to turn it over to you to hear a bit more about what drew you to marine study and living resource conservation.
LITZ: Yeah. So for marine mammals in particular, they are warm-blooded like us, and generally fairly tolerant to thermal changes. And again, I'm speaking primarily about the species of marine mammals that we're working with in the Southeast today, and not necessarily those that are ice-dependent, or Arctic marine mammals, for example.
HOST: I really appreciate you going into that, Erica. Marine science is such an incredibly vast field and there are huge tech applications for young folks that likely already have the skillsets these kinds of jobs need. And what better way to put those skills to use than to immerse yourself in our ocean and all its beauty?
LITZ: I think that's a great point, Shallin, and I would add to that that another growing problem and threat in the ocean and the environment is also marine debris. And I think everyone has a role to play in that in reducing their consumption of plastics, reducing the use of balloons, particularly outside, and ensuring that all trash is properly disposed of. Unfortunately, when we're out there in the field, we see a lot of balloons floating by, even more than 200 miles from shore.
LITZ: So you may have guessed this already, but, recently I'm very passionate about spreading the word about Rice’s whales, as is much of our team. Of course, spreading the word about all endangered species, including right whales and sperm whales, is important. But there's just so much we still don't know about Rice’s whales because they are so rare and only recently described. And they are, you know, right here in our backyard in the Gulf of Mexico.
HOST: Janet, glad to hear you mention the Seafood Marketing Collaborative and sustainable seafood – NOAA recently participated in the annual Capitol Hill Oceans Week, which I was fortunate to attend, and as part of that event, we hosted our annual Sustainable Seafood Celebration. Please indulge me on this one, but I’d love to know what your favorite seafood is.
HOST: Janet, you mentioned fish stocks shifting. Could you give an example of one of these stocks that’s shifted due to climate change? HOST: So on our Earth Day episode of the Planet NOAA podcast, we heard from some of the experts at NOAA Fisheries about their successful efforts to recover species like the white abalone, which you mentioned as part of the Species in the Spotlight list. You also mentioned the Hawaiian monk seal and right whale.
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