The United States Fish Commission, formally known as the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, was an agency of the United States government created in 1871 to investigate, promote, and pres
USFC Fish Hawk, c. 1900.
Hoist and winch on Fish Hawk, used by Commissioner Spencer Fullerton Baird and Professor Addison Emery Verrill in exploration of the New England coast, c. 1885.
USFC Albatross in the 1890s.
Fish Commission buildings and docks at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, c. 1892.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is a United States scientific and regulatory agency tasked with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the sea
United States Fish Commission
…Fisheries, with the latter inheriting the history and heritage of the old U.S. Fish Commission and U.S. Bureau of Fisheries. Upon the formation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) within the Department of Commerce on October 3, 1970, the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries merged with the saltwater laboratories of the Bureau…
A NOAA engineer at work
A WP-3D Orion of the NOAA Hurricane Hunters flies over NOAAS Ronald H. Brown.
Planes in the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center hangar in Lakeland, Florida
NOAA saildrone in the Virgin Islands, used for hurricane observation