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A female napoleon wrasse swims by a reef
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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...
September 2018
sea turtles in a cage
video

Marine Forensics

Forensics is a key tool for enforcing the laws and treaties that protect marine...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:32
fish swim in a net
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Reducing Bycatch

Bycatch, the name given to fish and other ocean animals that are caught...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:18
Screenshot of video with sharks swimming underwater.
video

Protecting Sharks: How Nets Hurt

Tom Peschak, a photojournalist with the Save Our Seas Foundation, describes the...
Mon, 01/04/2010 - 16:20
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
An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.
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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast...
Sunset over a fishing net.
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Technology and Sea Turtles

Sea turtles may have survived the planetary changes that killed the dinosaurs, but...
A Turtle Excluder Device (TED) enables a loggerhead turtle to escape from a net.
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Loggerhead Escapes from Fishing Net

One of the biggest threats to sea turtles, such as the loggerhead turtle (Caretta...
The Charles W. Morgan tallship
Personal Perspectives

History and Modern Science Collide for the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan

Traveling aboard the Charles W. Morgan, a 173-year-old whaling ship on its 38th...
July 2014
A juvenile Kemp's ridley sea turtle emerges from the nest
Article

Taking the Temperature of the Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle

The Kemp’s ridley is a “riddler” among sea turtles. Although the species was...
May 2014
Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage

Shark Snapshot - Saving sharks with an underwater photoshoot

Sharks make headlines, but we don’t actually know a whole lot about...
July 2017
Orange roughy and various marine species, bycatch, on the deck of a research trawler
Photo

Orange Roughy and Bycatch

Orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus) is a deep ocean fish that grows and matures...

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