fishing

Meet the sargassum belt: 5,000-mile-long snake of seaweed circling Florida

Photo: People remove Sargassum in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, in April, 2022. Researchers expect this year will bring another massive…

1 year ago

Regulators signal no California salmon season this year amid dismal return of adult fish

Photo: Stephen James caught the only salmon at the 2016 Albion Open kayak fishing tournament in Albion, CA. (JOHN BURGESS/The…

1 year ago

Microplastics pollution is filtering up into the fish we eat

Photo: Fish and plastic (Getty Images/Sergi Escribano) Oysters, tuna and other wild-caught fish we eat often contain plastic As an agrarian…

1 year ago

Why? Billions of snow crabs disappear from Bering Sea

Photo: A snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) pictured underwater in Canada. There were once billions of snow crabs in the Bering…

1 year ago

NOAA Rejects Wespac’s Proposed Fishing Rule for Hawaii Marine National Monument

Photo: NOAA has rejected Wespac’s proposed rule to allow Native Hawaiian subsistence fishermen to recoup their cost of fishing in…

1 year ago