Trapped on island habitats made smaller by rising seas, Indonesia's Komodo dragons were listed as "endangered" on Saturday, in an update of the wildlife Red List that also warned overfishing threatens nearly two-in-five sharks ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 4, 2021
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Bluefin tuna, a long-lived migratory species that accumulates mercury as it ages, can be used as a global barometer of the heavy metal and the risk posed to ocean life and human health, according to a study by Rutgers and ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2021
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We live in an era—the Anthropocene—where humans and societies are reshaping and changing ecosystems. Pollution, human-made climate change and overfishing have all altered marine life and ocean food webs.
Environment
Nov 8, 2019
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Global tuna stocks are fast reaching the limits of fishing sustainability, decimated by an absence of comprehensive, science-based catch limits, conservation experts warned Saturday.
Ecology
Sep 8, 2012
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On a warm summer day in August 2012, Greenlandic fishermen and biologists caught an unusual catch while conducting an exploratory fishery for mackerel.
Ecology
Sep 5, 2014
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A team of researchers with members from the AZTI, Marine Research, Basque Research and Technology Alliance, the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation and Simon Fraser University's, Earth to Ocean Research Group ...
A study published in the journal Science shows for the first time that carefully placed no-fishing zones can help to restore tunas and other large, iconic fish species. It is well known that no-fishing zones can benefit sedentary ...
Ecology
Oct 20, 2022
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Bluefin tuna, swordfish and Atlantic mackerel are among the fish species considered commercially extinct or extirpated on the Turkish side of the Marmara and Black Seas.
Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2020
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Asia-Pacific fishing experts on Sunday warned against depleting tuna stocks, saying the region needs to reduce its catch of the vulnerable bigeye species by 30 percent.
Ecology
Dec 2, 2012
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(AP) -- A new study suggests that more than 40 fish species in the Mediterranean could vanish in the next few years.
Ecology
Apr 19, 2011
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