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For the second year in a row, dead seabirds are washing up on beaches throughout the region by the hundreds. The birds appear to be starving, but scientists say the story is more complicated.

Rare observation of sea otter in Haro Strait, perhaps first since 2014.

Heavy mats of seaweed are washing up on South Florida beaches, creating thick barriers to the ocean.

Biologists blame the Blob of warm water in the Gulf of Alaska for poor sockeye returns that also led to the second lowest commercial harvest in 50 years.

Second Noctiluca bloom we have had in the last 4 weeks

Scientists scramble to explain unusual bloom of Sargassum

An obstruction has disconnected Morris Cove from ocean waters, preventing salmon from moving upstream.

Federal officials have shut down salmon and recreational fishing for the summer in key feeding grounds for killer whales. The closures, which took effect Friday, apply to parts of the southern . . .

Sea Star Wasting Disease has caused sea stars to die off since 2013. As of 2018, there are still no sea stars on Bishops Beach in Homer.

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.

The remains of a possible seal carcass tangled in netting may have come into contact postmortem, "ghost fishing" as a potential cause.

The trout we were gorging on them and the mergansers looked like they had eaten their fill.