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DFO documents reveal treatment failures and inability to protect migrating salmon.

Scientists have identified a spike in ‘vagrant’ species of fish including damselfish, wrasse and triggerfish

UChicago grad student analyzes ecosystem changes due to climate change on clams, snails, worms, crabs, urchins, starfish and more

Warming ocean waters are an invitation to all sorts of pathogens with the potential to remake ocean life.

March becomes the hundredth month in a row with temperatures above normal. "It is unique and shows how fast climate change is happening in the Arctic," says climate scientist Ketil Isaksen at the Meteorological Institute (MET).

Fish provide a vital source of protein for over half the world's population, with over 56 million people employed by or subsisting on fisheries. But climate change is beginning to disrupt the complex, interconnected systems that underpin this major source of food.

The survey started in 1971 as a review of commercially important fish like cod and halibut, but has grown into an annual scientific assessment of all sea life hauled up from the deep.

The winter commercial crabbing season in the Norton Sound will begin February 25 with a quota less than half of its 2018 figure and a third of the 2017 quota.

Greenhouse gas emissions provide extreme warming on Svalbard.

Climate change is ravaging the natural laboratory that inspired Darwin. The creatures here are on the brink of crisis.

December 3, 2018 – A new study by MBARI scientists shows that pulses of sinking debris carry large amounts of carbon to the deep seafloor, but are poorly represented in global climate models.

The California overwintering population has been reduced to less than 0.5% of its historical size, and has declined by 86% compared to 2017.

PORTLAND, Maine -- Valuable species of shellfish have become harder to find on the East Coast because of degraded habitat caused by a warming environment, according to a pair of scientists that sought to find out whether environmental factors or overfishing was the source of the decline. The scientists reached ...

Fisheries and Oceans Canada confirms the findings of independent research that says sea lice on salmon farms are becoming resistant to SLICE, a pesticide used to kill sea lice.

Reports that the sea star population was rebounding appear to have been overly optimistic, says the Coastal Ocean Research Institute.

The Icelandic lobster stock is at an historic low and last fishing season was the worst catch ever known in Iceland.

Sockeye salmon runs across Alaska were dismal this year. But no one is certain why.

This cute little guy makes you trip so hard you'll want to die, and could soon start popping up on the Gold Coast.

Crayfish were first observed on Kodiak around 2015. Now, a local tribal organization is studying their movement, distribution and diet.