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Cut of Atlantic Salmon on a Plate

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Love Salmon? Listen Up.

A beach clean-up in Malaysia brings young people together to care for their coastline.

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How You Can Help the Ocean

An opah at the Honolulu Fish Auction with a printed label attached that includes an ID number, bar code, the date, the receiver's ID number, the cart number, species name, vessel name, and weight of the fish.

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“Storied Fish”: Why Sustainable Seafood Requires A Tale

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

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Coral Reefs Need You

Photograph of an oiled brown pelican squatting on the beach.

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Animals and the Oil Spill: What Can You Do?

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Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.

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Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

A light painted image of a hand-painted ceramic fish with light emitting from its mouth

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Using Light Painting to Teach Bioluminescence

Students of the Alaska SeaLife Center delegation.

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Teens Take Action on the Ocean & Climate

Students share a microscope to get a closer look at plankton samples from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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A Current Event in the Classroom: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

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Coral Reefs Need You

David Barouh displays fresh fish for sale at Seattle’s Pike Place Market

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Sustainable Seafood Glossary of Terms

Sophi Bromenshenkel poses with a hammerhead shark snow sculpture.

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Saving Sharks and Dolphins, Near and Far

Tiny jellies in a petri dish.

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Fishing for Plastic: Science in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A diver cares for the reef by cleaning up discarded fishing gear and garbage.

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Resolve to Protect the Ocean

Chrysaora melanaster is a jellyfish found in the Arctic.

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World Oceans Day 2012

The 2012 Indonesian Biodiversity Research Center dive class stand in a group together

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Scuba Diving Course a Success for IBRC Students

Neighborhood Seafood Market in Rome, Italy

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Seafood for Thought