Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have reduced Atlantic cod populations in that region and distorted estimates of how many fish were available to catch, a new study finds. Cod stocks have decreased ...
Louisiana’s coast supports a wide variety of uses, including conservation, recreation, commercial fishing, energy, and ...
Alaska's fishing industry and environmental groups don't always agree. But this week, they were on the same side — both warning that recent cuts to federal fisheries science could jeopardize Alaska's ...
The management of aquatic ecosystems and restoration of water quality are vital to species survival. Gain in-depth knowledge on a molecular level and hands-on experience in the water assessment as you ...
A pair of recent papers, led by biologists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published in Fisheries Research and ...
Fishing communities can survive, and even thrive, as fish abundance and market prices shift if they can catch a variety of species and nimbly move from one fishery to the next, a new study finds.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center (LMRCSC) was established in 2001 as a multi-institutional collaborative program with the ...
The Alaska Fisheries Science Center lost 45 people, more than half its staff, while the Northwest center lost 42 staffers, agency data shows. The Trump administration’s purge of federal employees took ...
Rebecca Howard is a marine biologist who spent six years in graduate school — largely funded by federal scholarship dollars — to earn a doctorate at Oregon State University. Last April, she was hired ...
Successful fisheries management can be best achieved by implementing and enforcing science-based catch or effort limits, research shows. Research published this week in the Proceedings of the National ...
Ray Hilborn, a prominent University of Washington fishery scientist, is under attack from Greenpeace for sometimes leaving out mention of industry funding he receives in articles published in academic ...
Aquatic and fisheries science is the study of aquatic ecosystems to increase scientific understanding and to apply this knowledge to their management and conservation, thereby sustaining them for ...