The future of cod stocks in the North Sea and the Barents Sea may be much easier to predict than before. This is the result of an international research project led by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon and its Institute of Coastal ...
Ecology
Jul 6, 2021
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Postdoctoral Fellow with CSIRO's Environomics Future Science Platform Dr. Ben Mayne said the new method is a non-lethal alternative to counting growth rings in their otoliths, or ear bones of fish, to reveal their age.
Ecology
Jun 24, 2021
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As Earth warms, species around the world—Adélie penguins, earthworms, gray snapper, pin oaks—are shifting into habitats once too cold for them. One such "climate migrant" is the Atlantic mud fiddler crab Minuca pugnax. ...
Ecology
Nov 18, 2020
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Nick Muto has fished up and down the New England coast and there is nothing that gets his blood boiling more than the sight of a seal.
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2020
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When people who haven't been to the Arctic think of this remote and cold region, they may picture animals, such as polar bears, narwhal or ringed seals, and the people who live there. Rarely does this vision include modern ...
Ecology
Apr 2, 2020
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It's not spring in New England until the herring are running. From late February to early April, two species of herring —alewife and blueback herring—return from the ocean and swarm the region's ponds and streams, seeking ...
Ecology
Mar 16, 2020
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Atlantic cod on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland supported one of the world's greatest fisheries for over three centuries. Yet this seemingly inexhaustible resource is in bad shape. Some stocks are now endangered and their ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2020
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A computational analysis has surfaced new insights into the wind and water conditions that cause Kemp's ridley sea turtles to become stranded on beaches in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Xiaojian Liu of Wuhan University, China, ...
Ecology
Dec 4, 2019
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EU quotas for cod in the Baltic will be cut next year to try to shore up dangerously dwindling stocks, according to an agreement by fishing ministers published Tuesday.
Ecology
Oct 15, 2019
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At the entrance to Newcomb Hollow Beach, at the tip of the Cape Cod peninsula, the picture of a great white shark reminds swimmers that the US shores of the Atlantic must be shared with the ocean's most feared predator.
Ecology
Jul 17, 2019
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