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Traditional fishing techniques now involve monofilament nets, with snorkelers diving down to ensure the bigger fish don't get away.
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Field Notes from the East African Coast

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An unidentified earplug from the National Museum of Natural History collection.
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Ocean Objects of Wonder

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Colorful corals and brittlestars on Manning Seamount off the New England coast.
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Seamounts: Underwater Oases

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A screenshot of a map with links to stories on the side.
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Smithsonian Ocean Optimism Around the World

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An Atlantic puffin with small fish in its beak.
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Atlantic Puffin

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Researchers can study ocean acidification in the lab by rearing organisms (here, Lophelia deep-sea corals) in seawater with variable pH and measuring if they grow, eat, breathe, reproduce, or develop differently.
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Studying Acidification in the Lab

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Shell of an orange and white cone snail species.
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A New Cone Snail - Attenuiconus marileeae

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Gulf Marsh Animals Bounce Back But Monitoring Continues: One of the biggest questions is how Gulf animals will fare in the years after the spill, since oil spill impacts don't often happen immediately. One group of GoMRI researchers studied salt marsh anim
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Fiddler Crabs In a Gulf Marsh

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Seaside sparrow chicks beg for food from their nest
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A Nest of Begging Chicks

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Lost nets become entangled on a coral reef in the NW Hawaiian Islands, doing damage for decades. Wave action on the net breaks pieces of coral off until the net breaks, when it is free to catch on new reefs and do more damage.
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Lost Nets Hurt Coral Reefs

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A ribbon worm curled up in a mud flat.
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A Ribbon Worm From the Mud Flats

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