Scientists Spawn Bonefish in Captivity
So is the end game of this breakthrough bonefish hatcheries? In a race to solve a major challenge for conservation aquaculture, a breakthrough by researchers …
Tagfish in the news
Releasing Captive-Bred Salmon Into the Wild Has Negative Consequences
The debate over wild vs hatchery fish is like global climate change. Despite the preponderance of evidence that hatchery fish degrade wild runs, there are …
Glimmer Of Hope For Striped Bass
After the grim news coming out of the Maryland Chesapeake Bay juvenile survey a glimmer of hope from Virginia. The Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s …
Md.Striped Bass Spawn Sinks to Lowest in Four Years
The results of Maryland’s most recent striped bass spawning survey are in, and they aren’t good. Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced that the …
PLEASE STOP CALLING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ABOUT THIS SUNFISH!!
The local government of Wareham, a town in southern Massachusetts’ Plymouth County, has asked locals to please stop calling the police about a big, blobby …
Sockeye are in hot water
New research indicates already struggling and highly imperiled Snake River sockeye survival could decline by 80 percent as the effects of climate change alter inland …
Size of Extinct Megalodon Is Off the Charts
Some creatures are so big they capture the public imagination. T-Rex. Triceratops. Titanosaur. And the megalodon, an iconic megatooth shark that dominated the oceans for …
Half a million sharks could be killed for Coronavirus vaccine
Half a million sharks could be killed for their natural oil to produce coronavirus vaccines, according to conservationists. One ingredient used in some COVID-19 vaccine …
Kill fish to save fish: Behind Colorado’s effort to revive the Rio Grande cutthroat trout
The multi-agency project to restore Rio Grande cutthroat has been years in the making. But the optics still can be shocking. Increasingly scarce in a …
Shad recovery efforts not paying off
The prognosis is not good for the poor man’s tarpon. The American shad’s Atlantic population remains at a historic low, despite longstanding commercial fishing bans …