Fisheries News
May 18, 2025
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May 12, 2025 Scientists have found that juvenile European green crabs can do as much damage as adults to shellfish and native sea plants, calling into question current methods to eradicate the invasive ...
May 9, 2025 The Arctic landscape during the Cretaceous Period may have been dominated by the dinosaurs, but the rivers and streams held something more familiar. Alaska's fresh waters 73 million years ago were teeming with the ancient relatives of today's ...
May 8, 2025 Sulfur from sugarcane crops is flowing into wetlands in the Florida Everglades, creating toxic methylmercury, which accumulates in fish, a new study ...
May 8, 2025 Fishing pots fitted with LED lights catch significantly more shrimp and fish, new research ...
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May 7, 2025 Newly discovered species of extinct fish shows striking similarities to unrelated modern-day predators, suggesting certain traits have emerged multiple times and remained consistent over hundreds of ...
May 5, 2025 Muscle cells contain their own circadian clocks and disrupting them with shift work can have a profound impact on aging, according to new ...
May 5, 2025 Some reef fish have the unexpected ability to move their jaws from side to side, biologists have discovered. This ability -- which is rare among ...
Apr. 28, 2025 Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed -- and therefore our climate, new research ...
May 1, 2025 Scientists inserted DNA-encoding methylmercury detoxification enzymes into the genome of an abundant human gut bacterium. The engineered bacterium detoxified methylmercury in the gut of mice and ...
Apr. 30, 2025 The well-known salmon life cycle has long been described as going only one way at a time. Juvenile salmon hatch and swim down rivers to the ocean, ...
Apr. 22, 2025 At the heart of the Amazon researchers are investigating a mysterious parasite which is devastating fish farms around the ...
Apr. 10, 2025 Study reveals commonly detected environmental levels of clobazam -- a medication often prescribed for sleep disorders -- increased the river-to-sea migration success of juvenile salmon in the wild. ...
Mar. 25, 2025 The amount of carbon released by seabed fishing worldwide is uncertain and must be urgently investigated, researchers ...
Mar. 26, 2025 Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier ...
Earlier Headlines
Mar. 24, 2025 Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide ...
Mar. 24, 2025 The introduction of exotic species can pose significant challenges in the sustainable management of coastal ecosystems, yet researchers have found that Pacific oysters introduced to the Port River in ...
Mar. 21, 2025 Despite decades of warnings about overfishing, Southeast Asia's capture fisheries have proven remarkably ...
Mar. 20, 2025 A new study documents Putah Creek-origin salmon, meaning some salmon returning to the restored creek in the fall to spawn were actually born there. The study carries broader implications for other ...
Mar. 18, 2025 Brook trout may have a genetic trick up their scales when it comes to adapting, with limitations, to heatwaves that threaten their existence. Scientists have known for years that brook trout -- an ...
Mar. 14, 2025 Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, researchers discovered that they aren't enough to stabilize shark ...
Mar. 13, 2025 A groundbreaking study has revealed that brown trout can successfully navigate beaver dams -- obstacles which were previously thought to pose a significant barrier to their ...
Mar. 12, 2025 A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin meaning 'pertaining to ...
Mar. 11, 2025 Children who consumed the least amounts of seafood at 7-years-old were likely to be less 'prosocial' at ages 7 and 9 years than those who regularly consumed seafood, according to a new ...
Mar. 11, 2025 Researchers combine acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound. They trained the network to sort through the deluge of acoustic data automatically, ...
Mar. 6, 2025 Researchers have found that reef fish from the Arabian Gulf, the world's hottest sea, exhibit a higher tolerance to temperature fluctuations compared to those from more thermally stable coral ...
Mar. 4, 2025 Researchers have discovered that what was previously thought to be a unique seaweed species of bladderwrack for the Baltic Sea is in fact a giant clone of common bladderwrack, perhaps the ...
Feb. 28, 2025 Using drones, 17 distinct behaviors of narwhals were captured in the wild. Findings reveal complex behaviors of the Arctic's iconic whale never seen before. This highly gregarious whale uses its ...
Feb. 26, 2025 A research team observing anemonefish in the field found they engage in interesting feeding behavior with their host sea ...
Feb. 26, 2025 It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation ...
Feb. 25, 2025 The efficient architecture of our joints, which allows our skeletons to be flexible and sturdy, originated among our most ancient jawed fish ancestors, according to a new ...
Feb. 25, 2025 Some animals are capable of cooperating with members of other species. An interdisciplinary team explores the cognitive underpinnings of such cross-species collaborations, opening up a new ...
Feb. 25, 2025 Scientists have found Siamese fighting fish are typically kept in containers just one-quarter the size they need to thrive, challenging decades of retail practice in the ornamental fish industry ...
Feb. 24, 2025 New research uncovers the survival strategy juvenile Chinook salmon adopt to migrate to the ocean, providing insight on how to conserve the threatened ...
Feb. 21, 2025 A recent study has shown that oyster management practices in the Rappahannock River benefit both the health of the oyster reefs as well as the ...
Monday, March 24, 2025
- Chimpanzees Act as 'engineers', Choosing Materials to Make Tools Based on Structural and Mechanical Properties
- Introduced Pacific Oysters Provide Biodiversity Benefits in Port River
Friday, March 21, 2025
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- Children Who Lack Fish in Their Diets Are Less Sociable and Kind, Study Finds
- 'Fishial' Recognition: Neural Network Identifies Coral Reef Sounds
Thursday, March 6, 2025
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Friday, February 28, 2025
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
- Feeding Anemone: Symbiote Fish Actively Feed Hosts in Wild
- Fish Teeth Show How Ease of Innovation Enables Rapid Evolution
Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- Humans Inherited Their Flexible Joints from the Earliest Jawed Fish
- Some Animals Cooperate With Members of Other Species
- Siamese Fighting Fish Need More Space in Pet Shops, Study Shows
Monday, February 24, 2025
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
- Can Artificial Intelligence Save the Great Barrier Reef?
- Nighthawks: Wild Medaka Actively Court Female Fish in Wee Hours
- Economically, Culturally Important Marine Species Vulnerable to Changing Climate
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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Sunday, January 19, 2025
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025
- Invasive Pike Use Marine Corridors to Colonize New Alaska Territory
- Small-Scale Fisheries Essential to Global Nutrition, Livelihoods
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
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Thursday, December 26, 2024
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Tuesday, December 17, 2024
- Salmon Genes Unlock Secrets of Puberty and Evolution
- Researchers Explore Carbon Capture in Fish Farms to Address Climate Change
Thursday, December 12, 2024
- Uncovering Hidden Consequences of Catch-and-Release Sport Fishing
- Unique Motor Control System of Anglerfish's Specialized 'fishing Rod' Discovered
- How Helicopter Parenting Protects Baby Reef Fish
Monday, December 9, 2024
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Friday, October 25, 2024
- A Natural Climate Change Laboratory in Japan Reveals the Adaptation Dynamics of Fishers
- Invasive Silver Carp Reduce Movement in Chicago-Area Water
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
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Friday, October 18, 2024
Thursday, October 17, 2024
- Concerning Levels of PFAS in Fish Miles Away from Large Contamination Source
- Aquaculture Uses Far More Wild Fish Than Previously Estimated, Study Finds
Wednesday, October 9, 2024
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
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Monday, September 23, 2024
- Leading Scientists Redefine 'sustainability' To Save the Ocean and Feed a Hungry and Warming Planet
- All-Night Lights Change the Behavior of Fish, Even Into the Next Generation
Thursday, September 19, 2024
- Researchers Publish Breakthrough Study on How New Genes Evolve
- What's for Dinner? Scientists Unearth Key Clues to Cuisine of Resident Killer Whales
Monday, September 16, 2024
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- New Fossil Fish Species Scales Up Evidence of Earth's Evolutionary March
- Zebrafish 'taste' Oxygen: A Breakthrough in Respiratory Biology
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
- Due to Humans, Salish Sea Waters Are Too Noisy for Resident Orcas to Hunt Successfully
- Surprising Hormone-Related Gene Activity Discovered in the Early Larval Stage of the Malabar Grouper
Monday, September 9, 2024
Thursday, September 5, 2024
- Regulatory Gene Influences Shape Recognition in Medaka Fish
- How Fish Guts Might Play a Role in Future Skin Care Products
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
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Wednesday, August 14, 2024
- Historic Map Reveals How Mussel Farm Is Bringing Shellfish Reefs Back to the Seabed
- A Belly Full of Jelly
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
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Thursday, August 1, 2024
- Climate Change May Lead to Shifts in Vital Pacific Arctic Fisheries
- Study Examines Effect of Fish Oil in Older Adults' Brains
Friday, July 26, 2024
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Thursday, July 11, 2024
- Hatcheries Can Boost Wild Salmon Numbers but Reduce Diversity, Studies Find
- Urban Seagulls Still Prefer Seafood