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Clever Measures Track Fishing Pressures

Imagine taking a few measurements from a freshly caught fish and from that small...

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Living on the Edge: Mangroves

Mangroves are the biological buffers between land and sea. Without them,...

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Miami Connects Art and Mangrove Restoration

In coastal towns and cities, vast areas now inhabited by super markets, houses,...

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World Fisheries from Sea to Table

Worldwide, fisheries touch our lives in countless ways. If well maintained, they...

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Mystery from the Deep: The Puzzling Case of the Whalefish

In 1895, two Smithsonian scientists described a new kind of deep sea creature,...

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Smithsonian Fish Collections

There are about 4 million specimens in the fish collection housed at the National...

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Tapetail

This fish’s tail looks like a long streamer. It lives near the ocean’s surface...

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More Australian Plants

As Dampier studied the plants he encountered in Australia, he wrote that they were...

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Signs of a Recovering Harbor

For more than two centuries, Boston Harbor has been a dumping ground. In 1773,...

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Surgeonfish: Indicators of a Healthy Reef

Convict surgeonfish (Acanthurus triostegus) are the roaming sheep of the reef but,...

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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum

The open ocean is surprisingly barren to the naked eye. Every now and again you...

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Summer in a Sub: DROP Down to Discovery

You never know where following your passions can take you. I came to the...