Fish

Octopuses and fish share leadership — and enforcement — in group hunting

12:59pm September 23, 2024

When octopuses and fish hunt in groups in the Red Sea, the leadership roles are more dynamic than researchers knew — as are some ways the animals enforce cooperation.

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Environment

The Blue Ridge Snorkel Trail offers a truly immersive nature experience

4:29pm June 18, 2024

by Paul Garber

Aquatic biologist Andrea Leslie says snorkeling gives people a chance to learn about the fantastic world underneath the water’s surface in a safe way.

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Scientist Amy Apprill, with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, places a recording device onto a coral reef in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Can a playlist of fish music save the world's coral reefs?

4:28pm June 15, 2023

by Nurith Aizenman

The wondrous findings of a global project to record the sound of ocean habitats threatened by climate change and pollution.

Dead fish lay on the bank of the Darling River near Menindee, Australia, Sunday, March 19, 2023.

Millions of dead fish have been found in an Australian river due to low oxygen levels

4:25am March 20, 2023

by Ayana Archie

Millions of dead fish have been found dead in an Australian river due to dangerously low oxygen levels in the water caused by receding flood waters, government officials said.

Takakudjyti Kayapó, better known as Takakre, holds up a matrinxã fish. A community fishing monitor, he will measure and weigh the fish before recording its details in a spreadsheet to be sent to other members of the team studying how the mercury used in illegal mining is affecting fish populations in the Pixaxá River.

Is there mercury in the fish we eat? Amazonians tap WhatsApp to find out

8:46pm December 31, 2022

by Jill Langlois

A community of Indigenous peoples worried that mercury used by gold miners was contaminating the fish they eat. So they created a DIY team to find out more.

A riverside fisherman pulls a captured pirarucu into his canoe in Lake Amanã on Nov. 15.

Rare good news from the Amazon: Gigantic fish are thriving again

5:00am December 07, 2022

by John Otis

Conservationists say a sustainable fishing program has helped the recovery of the local pirarucu — which can be up to 10-feet long and weigh 450 pounds.

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Because of their size, goliath groupers are nearly fearless and easy prey for fishermen and divers with spearguns.

National

Florida Wants To Give Fishermen Another Go At The Great Big Goliath Grouper

8:26am September 24, 2021

by Greg Allen

The massive fish have been protected since 1990, after they were nearly wiped out. But now, Florida is proposing allowing the first catch of goliath groupers in more than three decades.

Shakuntala Thilsted, winner of the 2021 World Food Prize, is one of the world's leading experts on the nutritional benefits of small fish.

Why This World Food Prize Winner Wants You To Reconsider Anchovies

1:09pm May 11, 2021

by Malaka Gharib

Shakuntala Thilsted, one of the world's leading researchers of fish as a source of nutritious food, is the first woman of Asian heritage to receive the World Food Prize.

Jennifer Johnson, a member of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service survey crew, lies down beside a massive lake sturgeon that was pulled from the Detroit River last week. The sturgeon was tagged with a microchip and released back into the river.

National

A Huge, Ancient Lake Sturgeon Has Been Lurking In The Detroit River

11:35am May 05, 2021

by Annamarie Sysling

Imagine catching a really big fish — 7 feet long and weighing 240 pounds and estimated to be 100 years old. Oh, and you caught it in the Detroit River.

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A baby weedy seadragon swims at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla, Calif. Two of the rare fish hatched there recently, making the aquarium one of the few in the world to successfully breed them.

Environment

Rare Weedy Seadragons Hatch At California Aquarium

4:15pm February 14, 2020

by Jordan Pascale

The delicate creatures resemble bits of seaweed and are distant cousins of the seahorse. The aquarium says the two inch-long babies are already feeding on tiny shrimp.