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Meet the Coelacanth

Learn about the fish that was once thought to be extinct.

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Un pescador de una pesquería a pequeña escala de Honduras se embarca en una excursión de pesca.

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Medidas Inteligentes Rastrea las Presiones de Pesca

A blue parrotfish hides among coral.

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Tough Teeth and Parrotfish Poop

On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.

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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

A tornado of sardines swirls around diver and photographer Erwin Poliakoff in the Philippines.

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Why the Littlest Fish Matter a Whole Lot

A school of akule (Hawaiian for bigeye scad) explode into a camera's frame.

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Following the Akule

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A blue parrotfish hides among coral.

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Tough Teeth and Parrotfish Poop

On Moorea, an island in French Polynesia, researchers are striving to complete a biocode—a DNA catalog of every life form big enough to pick up with tweezers.

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Scientists Catalog Life on the Island of Moorea

Overfishing is leading to an abundance of less desirable species like jellyfish.

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Peanut Butter and Jellyfish

Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.

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Three Ways You Can Use Genomics to Study Oil Spill Impacts

a red lionfish

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Lionfish on the Loose

A Barbudan fisherman with a fresh lobster catch!

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The Blue Halo – Barbuda and Beyond

Three fishermen sit on wooden stilts that are sticking out of the ocean as they fish.

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Fishing for Food Security: Small-Scale Fisheries Are Key

Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler

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Rough Going for Orange Roughy

Una mujer sostiene una bandeja blanca que exhibe joyas de pez león.

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Si la vida te da un pez león...

A sea toad from the deep waters off of Curacao.

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Collections from Curaçao

A school of akule (Hawaiian for bigeye scad) explode into a camera's frame.

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Following the Akule

a hairy frogfish with a dark background

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Anglerfish Lure Prey Throughout the Ocean