Fisheries/Aquaculture

Credit: Peter Grønkjær Animals need to eat enough food to provide energy to sustain their bodies, hunt, grow and reproduce. In a changing world, changes to the metabolic cost of life can influence where animals can live. To date,…

At the limits of survival due human overexploitationCredit: Cayman Turtle Center (CTC) The reintroduction program for the green turtle in the Cayman Islands is crucial in order to recover this species, which are threatened by the effects…

Climate change will strongly affect many European freshwater fish species. This is particularly the case for species in the Mediterranean region, according to the latest findings of an international team of researchers from institutions…

Isotopic ecology: Reconstructing diets from the pastCredit: María Bas/ Lluís Cardona (UB-IRBio) A scientific study published in the journal Global Change Biology suggests snoek (Thyrsites atun) can recolonize the marine area of the Beagle…

More than three-quarters of marine mammal and sea turtle populations have significantly increased after listing of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), according to a study published January 16 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by…

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed maps of chemicals found in jellyfish which could offer a new tool for the protection of British waters and fisheries.Credit: University of Southampton Scientists at the University…

Organizers of 1st National Conference on Marine Environmental DNA call for official US Government marine eDNA program; investments to speed sampling results, standard sampling / reporting protocols; priority exploration / baseline…

Credit: Advances in Atmospheric Sciences An international team, released the 2018 ocean heat content observations in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on January 16, 2019. The newly available observations show that the year 2018 is the…

Credit: Transforming Drainage URBANA, Ill. - Every summer, a "dead zone" forms in the Gulf of Mexico. Plumes of oxygen-robbing algae, fed by excess nitrogen coming in from the Mississippi River, kill off marine life and threaten the…

PNNL's autonomous 'Sensor fish' and acoustic transmitter licensed by wildlife tracking company ATSCredit: PNNL Hundreds of surrogate "fish" will be put to work at dams around the world through an agreement between ATS - Advanced Telemetry…