Tag: Fisheries
Thousands of ocean fishing boats could be using forced labor –...
Gavin McDonald, University of California Santa Barbara
Fishing on the high seas is a bit of a mystery, economically speaking. These areas of open ocean...
Restoring seagrasses can bring coastal bays back to life
Robert J. Orth, Virginia Institute of Marine Science; Jonathan Lefcheck, Smithsonian Institution, and Karen McGlathery, University of Virginia
A century ago Virginia’s coastal lagoons were...
When dams cause more problems than they solve, removing them can...
Jon Honea, Emerson College
Across the United States, dams generate hydroelectric power, store water for drinking and irrigation, control flooding and create recreational opportunities such...
Coastal fish populations didn’t crash after the Deepwater Horizon spill –...
F. Joel Fodrie, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released 4 to 5 million barrels of oil into...
Scientists have found oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in fishes’...
Steven Murawski, University of South Florida and Sherryl Gilbert, University of South Florida
Over the decade since the Deepwater Horizon spill, thousands of scientists have...
Tagging data show that blue sharks are true globalists
Jasmin Graham, Florida State University
CC BY-NDBlue sharks are among the widest-ranging shark species in the oceans. We know this partly because from 1962 to...
Fish larvae float across national borders, binding the world’s oceans in...
Nandini Ramesh, University of California, Berkeley; James Rising, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Kimberly Oremus, University of Delaware
Fish populations are declining...
Ocean warming has fisheries on the move, helping some but hurting...
Chris Free, University of California, Santa Barbara
Climate change has been steadily warming the ocean, which absorbs most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
