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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
Students of the Alaska SeaLife Center delegation.
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Teens Take Action on the Ocean & Climate

What can students do to help the ocean? It turns out, a lot! These students from...
Tue, 02/08/2011 - 16:37
A bright red sea anemone clings to rocks underwater.
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Blue on the Big Screen

Islanders made homeless by sea-level rise, a dreaming dolphin, and deep underwater...
Fri, 03/18/2011 - 14:52
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
Sunset over a fishing net.
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Success Stories in Ocean Conservation

It is easy to feel hopeless when reading the news coverage of ocean conservation....
Thu, 06/12/2014 - 11:09
A pile of bycatch species.
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Bycatch: The Cost of Catching What You Don’t Want

When people go out fishing, they  often have something specific in mind, but...
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 11:38
Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.
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A Tale of a Right Whale

Suspended at the center of the Sant Ocean Hall is a life-size model of a North...
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 15:58
“Upon returning from the reef after a night dive, I swam toward a bright reflection and came eye-to-eye with this beautiful, curious squid.” -- Nature's Best photographer Charles Viggers.Equipment Used to Capture the Shot: Nikon D700; 105mm ƒ/2.8 lens
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Stunning Squid Pictures

From the giant squid to microscopic squid babies, squids are beautiful and...
Thu, 06/20/2013 - 16:54
A reddish-orange nudibranch.
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A Collage of Nudibranch Colors

Nudibranchs are a kind of sea slug, and their 3000 species are found from the poles...
Wed, 01/22/2014 - 12:51

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