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As countries commit to bans on bottom trawling, an island community in Cambodia is implementing its own method: dropping large cement blocks in near-shore waters. These not only snag trawling boats’ ...

A groundbreaking study of 7,000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: As sharks declined by 75 percent and fish preferred by humans ...

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What does a decline in healthy coral reefs mean for fisheries? A new study published in Marine Resource Economics, led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), examines the correlation ...

Caribbean reef food webs have compressed by up to 70% over the past 7,000 years as fish diets converge and ecosystems become ...

When we think of fossils, giant prehistoric creatures like dinosaurs may come to mind. But the fossil record also holds the remains of smaller organisms, such as fish and corals, that tell us about ...

Where do you go when you’re a fish and you need a skincare treatment? Coral reefs contain natural “beauty salons,” lively social hubs of activity where fish “clients” swim up and wait to be serviced ...

Once the new Interstate 10 bridge over eastern Lake Pontchartrain is completed, a marine conservation organization wants to use the rubble from the existing twin spans to create two artificial reefs ...

Work is scheduled to start Monday on a project to build stone fish reefs along the Monongahela River near Elizabeth, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This is the first of five segments ...

Fish otoliths—the calcium carbonate structures found in fishes' inner ears—from human harvested fish, prey fish (those eaten by predatory fish) and reef-sheltered fish (also known as cryptobentic fish ...