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A school of anchovies swims in shallow water in the Bahamas.
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Tiny Creatures May Play a Difficult-to-Detect Role in Ocean Mixing

by Carolyn Wilke 20 May 20222 June 2022

As an idea that began as a joke, critter-driven ocean mixing has long been controversial. Now scientists have caught spawning anchovies causing turbulence and stirring the sea.

A school of silver marine fish in the Maldives
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Ancient Fish Thrived During a Period of Rapid Global Warming

by Elyse DeFranco 14 December 202114 December 2021

Teeth and scales preserved in marine sediments suggest that fish thrived during one of Earth’s fastest-warming periods.

A group of snailfish, animals that live in deep-sea ecosystems, feeding on a dead fish
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Sinking Fish May Fast-Track Mercury Pollution to the Deep Sea

by Carolyn Wilke 22 December 202018 March 2022

Isotopic analysis indicates that mercury found in deep-sea organisms may have an origin in carrion from near the surface.

Metal and concrete salmon pools at Oregon’s McKenzie River Hatchery
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Internal Compass Guides Salmon’s Incredible Journey

by Mary Caperton Morton 9 June 20203 May 2022

New study finds evidence that magnetite particles play a role in fish navigation.

One person’s hands hold a mahi-mahi while another person uses instruments to tag it.
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Oil-Exposed Mahi-Mahi More Likely to Lose Oil-Avoidance Behavior

by R. Crowell 30 January 202018 May 2022

Contact with oil may make it harder for the fish to avoid additional exposure, creating a vicious cycle following offshore oil spills.

A crew in safety vests uses nets and holding tanks to rescue salmon from the Fraser River
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Remote Landslide Puts Fraser River Salmon on Shaky Ground

by Lesley Evans Ogden 22 January 20206 December 2021

An alliance of First Nations, provincial, and federal leaders worked with scientists, engineers, and emergency responders to rescue critical salmon stocks in western Canada.

Salmon fillet and vegetables
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Climate Change Is Coming for Our Fish Dinners

by Jenessa Duncombe 17 September 201918 March 2022

Your fish fillet may have less omega-3 fatty acids, an important nutrient for brain health, by the end of the century.

Fishes swim in a coral reef
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Damselfish in Distress?

by Mara Johnson-Groh 31 May 201918 March 2022

Noise pollution may be changing how some species of fish develop.

Satellite image of the Cape of Good Hope
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Shifting Winds Drive Ocean Temps Along South African Coast

by E. Underwood 24 May 201915 November 2021

A new study could help manage sardine populations in coastal waters.

3D rendering of an O. megalodon shark
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Extinct Megatoothed Shark May Have Been Warm-Blooded

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 11 December 20183 May 2022

Preliminary results from a recent study may begin to shed light on why megalodons died out before the most recent ice age.

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