LED illuminated nets reduce bycatch of sharks and skates by an incredible 95 percent while maintaining catch rates of target species. In a win-win for…
Recent breakthroughs in multiple fields of study now allow researchers to follow the entire life cycle of ocean fishes—from when and where they are spawned,…
Accidentally trapping sharks, seabirds, marine mammals, sea turtles, and other animals in fishing gear is one of the biggest barriers to making fisheries more sustainable…
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on January 13, 2022, have discovered a massive breeding colony of notothenioid icefish in Antarctica’s southern Weddell Sea….
Researchers detect around 60 million nests of Antarctic icefish over a 240 square kilometers area in the Weddell Sea. Near the Filchner Ice Shelf in…
In the sports arena, spectators sometimes create a spectacle known as a wave, as successive groups stand up in unison to yell with arms in…
Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found that the way fish interact in groups is being upset by ocean acidification and global warming. “Fish…
Efforts to eradicate a human parasitic disease are being hampered by dogs eating infected fish, new research shows. Guinea worm disease is usually caught by…
Reef fish, such as emperors, tropical snappers, and rockcods, help keep numbers of coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish in check on the Great Barrier Reef. Reef fish,…
Retreating glaciers in the Pacific mountains of western North America could produce around 6,150 kilometers (3,820 miles) of new Pacific salmon habitat by the year…
Industrial fishing over the past century appears to have broken a law of nature. Surprising as it sounds, all life forms in the ocean, from…
The world’s largest fish, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), is a plankton-loving giant that can be found alone or in groups in all tropical oceans….
UW Oshkosh vertebrate paleontologist on research team. Two tiny new species that inhabited part of what is now the American south some 100 million years…
The southern coasts of this Chinese island are lined with tropical beaches, while the inner bays are lined with floating fishing villages. Situated in the…
High number of affected animals were pups and juveniles, which were mainly entangled around the neck by fishing line. Fishing line and nets are having…
Coral reefs around the world are under threat because of climate change, overfishing, pollution, and more. Now, researchers reporting in the journal One Earth today (September…
Researchers studied mercury accumulation in the migratory species around the world. Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can be…
Seadragons (Phyllopetryx taeniolatus) live off the coast in western and southern Australia. An international team involving evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer from the University of Konstanz…