Fishing boat tracking data shows how warming oceans change fish behavior and fishing success, offering warnings before major ...

Some species of deep-sea fish have evolved blacker-than-black skin to protect them from being eaten – or to help them sneak up on fish they want to eat. A study, published last week in the journal ...

Ana Vaz was a fish biologist at NOAA’s Southeast Fisheries Science Center. She has a Ph.D. in oceanography from the ...

Dead fish, full of a lifetime of mercury, may function as a vessel of this toxin to the deep ocean. While mercury occurs naturally in the environment, human industrial activities have rapidly ...

Soaring demand for farmed salmon is endangering access to local sea fish for poorer communities around the world, warns a new report. Growing appetite for salmon in the northern hemisphere means more ...

PORTLAND, Maine — This year’s marine heat waves and spiking ocean temperatures foretell big changes in the future for some of the largest fish in the sea, such as sharks, tunas and swordfish. The ...

You’re a fish in the ocean. It’s 2023 and humans have begun deploying swarms of sentinel robot fish along the reef where you live that will monitor your environment, track pollution and collect ...

An oft-touted claim from high-profile sources says that there will be more plastic than fish in the world's oceans by 2050. The claim came from a 2016 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The ...

An immobilized fish lay between Craig Radford's fingers. The several-week-old Australasian snapper, no longer than a pinkie nail, rested flat on a slab of modeling clay, held down by small staples—“as ...

Eating fish may well be good for you, but it carries a hidden risk of exposure to so-called "forever chemicals." A new study ...