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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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A beach scene with groups of people walking in the water and playing with the sand.

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Be Kind to the Beach

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

yarn artwork of coral

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Webcast: Stories from the Reef

Orange and red deep-sea corals.

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Deep-Sea Corals: NOAA Education Plans & Activities

Sophi Bromenshenkel poses with a hammerhead shark snow sculpture.

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Saving Sharks and Dolphins, Near and Far

Neighborhood Seafood Market in Rome, Italy

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Seafood for Thought

Screenshot from "Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay" of students wearing life jackets on a boat.

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Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay

A great white shark in the waters of the coast of Guadelupe, Mexico.

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The results are in...

Satellite view of Earth.

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Earth Day, Spawned from the Sea

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

Screenshot of "Rethink the Shark" showing people on a beach.

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Rethink the Shark

A diver collects water samples.

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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans