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An App Helps Scientists Combat Illegal Fish Trade

Relationships often begin with the locking of eyes. For Yvonne Sadovy, it was a...

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Bite Size: Bull Shark Predation of Tarpon

Follow a journey with satellite tags placed on bull sharks and tarpon. Both of...

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Ideas for Change

"We too are sea creatures," entreats ocean explorer Sylvia Earle in this beautiful...

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X-Ray Image of a Smalltooth Sawfish

The long toothy rostrum or “saw” gives sawfish their common name. They use the...

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Goliath Grouper

The Goliath grouper, (Epinephelus itajara), is found in shallow tropical waters and...

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Florida Manatee

A Florida manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris, swims down a narrow channel into...

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Global Status of Marine Fish Stocks

These statistics come from a United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization...

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Who’s That Whale?

A drawing of Phoenix from the Right Whale Catalog documents her callosity pattern...

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Tagged Atlantic Cod

So far, researchers have developed DNA barcodes to accurately identify 4,600 of the...

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NOAA's Adopt a Drifter Program

NOAA is working with students across the globe to place floating buoys throughout...

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Tunas and Marlins Officially Classified as Threatened

Extinction is a real possibility for three species of tunas. That’s one of the...

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Southern Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus maccoyii)

Largely due to overfishing, the Southern Bluefin Tuna is listed as "critically...