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Weather Forecasting Is Deadly for Marine Wildlife

10/31/2024 by Param Bhatia

By Danielle Beurteaux. Latex balloons designed to collect high-altitude data become a threat to marine animals after they burst—though the scale of their impact remains unknown. On a fall day in 2023, a juvenile Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross was lying listless in southeastern Brazil’s Santos Basin. Beach monitors found the young bird in… SEE MORE

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The Salty, Sun-Dried Shrimp Paste That Tastes Like Home

10/30/2024 by Param Bhatia

By Sumer Rao. A fermented seafood delicacy keeps the Karen people of India connected to their homeland in Myanmar. Our dungi, a six-meter-long dugout canoe, chugs mechanically along the western coastline of India’s North Andaman island. Saw Atto, a veteran shrimp fisher and the captain for this voyage, turns the wooden… SEE MORE

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Pacific Bluefin Tuna Quotas Soar by 80 Percent in 2025

10/29/2024 by Param Bhatia

By nationalfisherman.com. According to NOAA Fisheries, commercial Pacific bluefin tuna fishermen in the United States will be able to harvest nearly 80 percent more tuna in 2025-2026, thanks to new catch limits set by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. The decision, made in September, follows an encouraging stock assessment by the International… SEE MORE

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October 11, 2024 Fishing Back When: Crab Landings Down, First Time in History

10/28/2024 by Param Bhatia

By Carli Stewart. For the first time since the birth of the industry, Alaska King crab landings declined in 1967 to 135 million pounds, down 24 million pounds from the 1966 landings. The hardest hit area was Kodiak, where landings decreased by 26% in the course of the year, a… SEE MORE

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