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Fish spears and traps placed in rivers are traditional ways of catching salmon.

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Catching Salmon

January 2010

Members of the Squamish Nation paddle to a 1997 festival celebrating Native canoe arts.

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Celebrating Traditional Canoes

January 2010

This illustration shows how fishing lines attached to traps and buoys on the ocean floor present a potentially deadly hazard to North Atlantic right whales.

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How Whales Become Entangled

January 2010

Like snails, clams, and even slugs, giant squids are all mollusks, with soft, fleshy bodies.

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Squid Relatives

January 2010

The tough serrated ring around the opening grips the squid’s prey.

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Giant Squid Sucker

October 2012

A photo of a solitary European green crab on a sandy substrate.

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European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

November 2013

Only 2,000 individuals of the endangered short-tailed albatross remain after the species was hunted for its feathers in the 1940s.

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Short-tailed Albatross

October 2016

Weddell seals grind their teeth on holes in the ice to keep them open to their comings and goings between ocean and air.

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Weddell Seal in Antarctic Water

June 2013

How well could you eat with a saw on your face? If you were a sawshark, you couldn’t eat without one! Sawsharks are named for their long snouts, which have sharp teeth protruding from either side. They attack their prey by slashing these “saws” from

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Sawshark

July 2017

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

February 2014

Citizen Science Tracks Oil’s Path: When oil spills into seawater, it's hard to know where ocean currents will carry it. To map Gulf currents and improve predictions, scientists with GoMRI's GISR project are dropping biodegradable yellow driftcards throug

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Citizen Science With a Drift Card

January 2015

“This image was captured during an evening dive in water where the largest migration on Earth occurs nightly. This miniscule squid was less than an inch long, transparent, and highly reflective, which made proper exposure extremely difficult. Over hundre

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Larval Squid, Coast of Kailua Kona, Hawaii, USA

January 2013