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a closeup of hands mending a fishing net
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Mending Nets

Fishing gear now uses durable plastics that are resistant to degradation. This...
a young woman stands by a fish equal to her size
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Historical Fishing

Recreational fishing can shed light on changes in fish sizes because prized catches...
fish caught in a green and blue net
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Caught in a Net

A recent haul of fish. ...
graph of trends in world fish stocks
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State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture Stocks

A comparison of the proportion of overfished and sustainably fished stocks over...
A graph of fisheries and aquaculture
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FAO State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture Production

2018 FAO State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture Production. A comparison of...
Seafood vendor at historic Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington (USA). The market draws both shoppers and gawkers who come to watch the gregarious crew of fishmongers.
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World Fisheries from Sea to Table

Worldwide, fisheries touch our lives in countless ways. If well maintained, they...
Thu, 11/18/2010 - 14:49
A researcher leans off of a boat to tag a great white shark.
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Collaborator Research

Recent Antarctic expeditions, underwater volcano monitoring, studies of...
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 10:02
Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead scientist for the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, releases a seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus) in the Louisiana marsh.
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Sabrina Taylor Releases a Sparrow

Sabrina Taylor, a wildlife biologist at Louisiana State University and lead...
A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will travel throughout the Gulf of Mexico and send GPS coordinates to researchers.
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SCOPE Buoys Help Track Oil

A boat full of SCOPE drifters waits to release small, biodegradable buoys that will...
Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to scientists through a GPS satellite. Some of the 5.7 million data points about the drifters locations are seen in this map of the Gulf.
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Tracking CARTHE Drifters

Drifters deployed into the Gulf of Mexico sent location information back to...
'Blue Marble' satellite image of the Earth
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'Blue Marble' Image of the Earth

'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most...
A photo of a European flounder in the Baltic Sea.
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Flounder Faces Pollution and Overfishing in Baltic Sea

For centuries, the Baltic Sea has provided European flounder (Platichthys...

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