Warming ocean waters are an invitation to all sorts of pathogens with the potential to remake ocean life.
The 2015 to 2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world.
Research finds farmed salmon virus may cause jaundice/anemia.
Over the past few months, a massive toxic bloom of the marine diatom Pseudo-nitzschia, stretching from central California to the Alaska Peninsula, has resulted in significant impacts to coastal resources and marine life. NOAA has been working closely with federal, state, tribal, academic, and other partners to respond to this unprecedented harmful algal bloom (HAB).
Reports that the sea star population was rebounding appear to have been overly optimistic, says the Coastal Ocean Research Institute.
A mysterious disease, possibly a virus, has afflicted ring seals along Alaska's coast, killing scores of them since July, local and federal agencies said on Thursday.
NANAIMO — Island Health and the BC Centre for Disease Control are warning anyone who's eaten herring eggs recently to stay hydrated and safely dispose of any remaining eggs.
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.
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