Douglas Indian Association catalogs marine debris at the bottom of Gastineau Channel | Though it sounds like the subtitle to a Pirates of the Caribbean movie, ghost fishing is a real phenomenon. It's going on right now in Gastineau Channel.

Sea otter population growth not seen in recent history and shellfish harvest have been dropping.

Sea star wasting disease, a type of densovirus, reduced the count of sea stars in Kachemak Bay from 180 last spring to a measly five this year.

No one really knows why algae put so much effort into making poisons. Alexandrium makes saxitoxin, and causes PSP. Another algae called Pseudo-nitzschia produces domoic acid, the source of amnesiac shellfish poisoning.

A limpet not seen in the area before.

The novelty of seeing a jumbo squid in Unalaska is not wearing off: a second one washed ashore Monday night.

The prevalence of "weak meats" syndrome in 2014, 2015 meant that somewhere on the order of half of all scallops shucked couldn’t be marketed. That was much higher than the fleet had ever seen before.

Coral degradation, fish species decline and an increase in jellyfish population.

What has eight arms, two tentacles and washed ashore on a beach in Unalaska Monday night? A more than six-foot long squid.

Both squid were of the genus/species Onykia robusta, previously known as Moroteuthis robusta, and commonly known as the robust clubhook squid.

Victoria's biggest-ever reef restoration project is underway, in attempt to restore the once abundant populations of native oysters in Port Philip Bay.

The parasite that causes rat lungworm disease is now endemic in the southeastern United States, and it’s expected to spread northward.

Researchers with Southeast Alaska Tribal Ocean Research found high levels of Paralytic Shellfish Toxin in a population of mollusks at Auke Recreation Area in Juneau on Friday.

Global warming has likely caused permanent damage to the world's largest coral reef, according to a new report in the journal Nature.

A big emphasis in the last few years has been updating and adding to the list of species known to occur in the Yukon. This past year, a whopping 1,973 species of plants, insects and animals have been added.