The results of the Plate Watch program only indicated one invasive species in the area, Caprella mutica, otherwise known as the Japanese skeleton shrimp.
Ice in the north Bering Sea is diminishing, researchers aboard a Coast Guard ship report.
While their main target appears to be the region's soft-shell clam population, they're also munching through acres of eelgrass, a native flowering plant that shelters and nourishes life under the sea.
The Division of Marine Fisheries is analyzing the clams and expects to have preliminary results in the coming days that might point to a cause.
NOAA and NASA satellites measured an average sea-surface temperature of 68.93 degrees Fahrenheit in the Gulf of Maine on Aug. 8, only 0.05 degrees below the all-time record high of 68.98 set in 2012. It is the epicenter of the U.S. lobster fishing industry, an important feeding ground for rare North Atlantic right whales .
But the appearance of new chemicals is creating an uncertain future for polar bears, orcas and seabirds.
Hundreds of sea turtles have washed up dead along the southwest Florida coast as an ongoing red tide event persists in the waters. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has logged 287 sea turtle deaths since the virulent algal bloom started in October, the Associated Press reported.
The report on Wood Buffalo National Park says industry, dams, climate change and natural cycles are sucking the lifeblood from the vast delta of northeastern Alberta's Peace and Athabasca rivers
Australia has seen an unprecedented number of widespread, catastrophic transformations in response to extreme weather events.
Shellfish in the Puget Sound tested positive for the prescription opioid oxycodone, and this was not the only drug found by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Underwater camera captured ‘a wasteland, covered in brown sediment.’
Portions of Grays Harbor, Kitsap, Pierce and Thurston County currently have shellfish harvest restrictions due to pollution.
Lobster stocks around Iceland’s coast are so low a fishing ban is not out of the question.
For a few decades now, retired surgeon Jon Reiswig has lived with a perplexing oddity: the water in front of his North Douglas home constantly bubbles.
Previously, regulators monitored the presence of certain toxins and shut down fishing when they exceeded safe limits.
The herds are increasingly moving around in Bristol Bay, perhaps seeking new feeding grounds, a biologist said.
Opalescents, also known as market squid, are showing up in waters previously considered too cold for them, and fishermen are paying attention.
In just a few short years, the Northern California waters stretching from Sonoma to Southern Humboldt have undergone a dramatic transformation, with stretches stripped bare of their once varied marine life in a phenomenon known as "urchin barren."
At a lab in Kodiak, researchers are working to understand whether crabs can adapt to ocean acidification.
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