The Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Ore., shared images of the fish on its Facebook page. In the photos, the large, brightly colored opah can be seen laying on the sand near the water’s edge. The ...

Pelagic fish – species that occupy the water column of the open ocean, neither near the bottom nor near the shore – are more impacted by both human pressure and protection than bottom-dwelling benthic ...

This story was originally published by iWatch Africa, and a shorter version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing partnership agreement. An investigation led by Gideon Sarpong ...

Floating macroalgal acts as a raft that provides habitat for a diverse array of juvenile oceanic fish a new study has found. The study conducted in the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Area, Western ...

A Scottish pilot project, Catch to Batch, has developed a system to track mackerel and herring from capture to processing and distribution, giving buyers and consumers full confidence in the ...

A vast, productive portion of the Pacific Ocean abounds off the coast of Panama. Known as the eastern tropical Pacific, nutrient-rich currents there associated with the northern flank of the Humboldt ...