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2024's "Best Harbor" Contest Winners Announced
You Voted, and We Have a Clear Winner! Grand Winner, Best Harbor in the U.S. for 2024: Block Island, RI Top 10 Results: Block Island, RI (also 2024’s Northeast regional winner; first time on winners list) Destin, FL (also 2024’s Gulf Coast regional winner; first time on winners list) Padanaram,… Learn More
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Weather Forecasting Is Deadly for Marine Wildlife
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
The Salty, Sun-Dried Shrimp Paste That Tastes Like Home
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
Pacific Bluefin Tuna Quotas Soar by 80 Percent in 2025
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