Scientists have identified 181 California dams that may need to increase water flows to protect native fish downstream. The screening tool developed by the Center for Watershed Sciences at the ...

MONTE RIO, Sonoma County -- As Northern California finds itself between two desperately needed rounds of rain, compounding years of drought have taken a toll across the state and particularly on our ...

Fish raised in hatcheries need to go on training courses to help them cope with life in the wild. This tactic could make a big difference to the survival rates for the fish, which often succumb to ...

A genetic study of a fish that lives in the icy waters off Antarctica sheds light on the adaptations that enable it to survive in one of the harshest environments on the planet. A genetic study of a ...

An international team based at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK, the University of Oslo in Norway as well as institutes in the Netherlands, Switzerland and the ...

Fish are losing their survival instinct – even becoming attracted to the smell of their predators – as the world's oceans become more acidic due to climate change, according to new reseach. The study ...

PORTLAND, Maine - What happens when a fisherman tosses a fish back overboard? It's not a frivolous question. The government bases catch quotas and other rules in part on the mortality of tossed fish, ...

As oceans get warmer, for marine life that can’t get to colder waters, like clownfish, it could mean a death sentence. But Nemo and company have a trick. Just like animals on land, those in the oceans ...

You may be wondering: Why should I learn how to gut and scale a fish at home when I could easily ask a fishmonger to do it for me? Isn’t that the whole point of going to a fishmonger? Why is ...

More than 400 so-called ‘dead zones’ exist in oceans and seas worldwide: areas where aquatic life is limited or completely absent, largely because there isn’t enough oxygen to support it. Manchester ...

Researchers find declining survival of juvenile steelhead trout in the ocean is strongly coupled with significant declines in populations of wild and hatchery steelhead in the Pacific Northwest.