The captain bellowed, “Just marked a nice one!” from the tower as everyone in the cockpit went on high alert. A giant red ball of bait occupied almost the entire screen of the sounder, and seconds ...

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After decades of struggling to keep iconic species such as salmon and whales from going extinct, marine scientists are now focusing on sardines, squid and other forage fish that form the biological ...

The decline of Southern Resident Killer Whales gets a lot of attention, and it's mostly blamed on the disappearance of their favorite food: Chinook salmon. And one group of scientists at the ...

The largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is a perciform species native to the United States. It was introduced to China in 1983 and has since become extensively cultivated worldwide as a ...

The catch of small, schooling fish such as sardines and anchovies should be cut in half globally and the amount left in the ocean doubled to protect the ecologically vital species from collapse, ...

Sardines, herring and other small fish species are the foundation of the marine food web — they're essential food for birds, marine mammals and other fish. But globally, demand for these so-called ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. There’s lots of good wonky stuff in this Oceana report (PDF) about the importance of ...

Atlantic Puffins, those charismatic little seabirds with wildly colorful bills, are warning us of big trouble in the ocean. Puffins now must travel further and dive deeper to find the tiny fish their ...

Researchers say eating the fish is better than simply avoiding red meat SWAPPING out bacon and sausages for kippers at breakfast could slash your risk of an early death, a study suggests. Some 750,000 ...