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Interview by Natalie Sopinka What species of fish is in this image? This is a 3D volume rendering from a micro-computed tomography (CT) scan of a Scalyhead Sculpin
By Leah Baumwell, IGFA Conservation Coordinator, Email: lbaumwell@igfa.onmicrosoft.com “I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was.” —Ernest Hemingway,
Cobia that escaped from an aquaculture farm off the coast of Ecuador are heading northward and may reach Southern California, says UCSB marine biologist Milton Love. Several months ago, tens of thousands
Illuminating fishing nets is a cost-effective means of dramatically reducing the number of sea turtles getting caught and dying unnecessarily, conservation biologists at the University of Exeter have found. Dr.
A research group led by Yamamoto Satoshi, a research fellow at the Kobe University Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, has shown that measuring quantities of fish DNA in seawater
In this Issue: • President’s Column One Fish, Two Fish • Policy Column Climate Change and Fish • Letter From the Executive Director AFS Annual Meetings: What Works and
Studies on the fish populations, fisheries, and limnology of Oneida Lake, New York, started in the late 1950s at the Cornell University Biological Field Station. Early research concentrated on Walleye,
Emily Yehle, E&E reporter Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Last year was the world’s warmest year ever recorded, beating out 2014 in average temperatures over land and ocean surfaces, according
Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E&E reporter Published: Wednesday, January 20, 2016 The global oceans, like a giant sponge, have sopped up 90 percent of the excess heat trapped in the planet since
Biologists are using new genetic techniques to reduce inbreeding among salmon, but some scientists question if natural methods would have worked just as well. The new technique involves a team
