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These statistics come from a United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization review.
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Global Status of Marine Fish Stocks

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Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative researchers collect samples from a Pensacola Beach with oil layers in the sand. They use genomics to track how the communities of microbes change as they digest different components of oil after a spill.
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Microbial Layers In the Sand

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A C-130 Hercules from the Air Force Reserve Command deploys dispersant into the Gulf of Mexico May 5, 2010, as part of the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill response effort.
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Dispersant Deployed From The Air

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On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.
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Black Axil Chromis on a Coral Reef

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Dr. Erica Miller, of the Louisiana State Wildlife Response Team, cleanses an oil-covered pelican in Plaquemines Parish, LA.
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Cleaning an Oiled Pelican in Louisiana

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a white power cord unplugged on a brown table
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Flip the Switch

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A frame-by-frame view of a Great White Shark breach- frame 7.
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Breaching Sequence 7

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a fossilized ancient sea creature
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Wiwaxia

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A walrus sits on a floating piece of ice.
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Walrus on Ice

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A school of yellowfin surgeonfish feed near dusk off Canton Island in the Phoenix Islands.
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Yellowfin Surgeonfish

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Acorn barnacles living on top of a crab.
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An Edible Crab Covered with Barnacles

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A photograph of a bright blue-speckeled dinoflagellate bioluminescing at night.
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Bioluminescing Dinoflagellate

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