Small ocean fish are thriving while humans eat up all their predators. Major study shows impact of overfishing on sensitive marine ecosystems. Tom Bawden. Wednesday 22 October 2014 20:33 BST.

For the study, researchers trawled 1,000 miles off the coast for fish living among floating debris particles in an area of the ocean known as the Eastern Garbage Patch. They dissected and analyzed ...

Small fish, big ocean: Saving Pacific forage fish Photo: Eric Ch A few weeks ago, we told you about the contentious debate over the fate of a tiny fish known as menhaden.

Ocean scientists worry that pressure to harvest small schooling fish such as herring, smelt and sardines could have serious consequences for other sea life.

In more recent years, over 55,000 public votes were cast in 1984 to name the State of Hawaii’s official fish. The lauwiliwili nukunuku ‘oi’oi finished in third place following a narrow ...

Aquaculture, the fancy word for fish farming, is increasing in viability, and even now makes up more than 50 percent of the world’s seafood production.Mariculture, the practice of, basically, roping ...

Our trash has reached the stomachs of some of the deepest fish in the ocean. Researchers said 73% of deepwater fish in the North Atlantic Ocean had eaten particles of plastic, known as microplastics.

For its preparation, the authors retrieved fish otoliths — small stones in the inner ear of bony fishes that facilitate the fishes’ sound and balance perception — from sedimentary formations ...

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Meet the Neobythites superocellatus, or "large eyespotted cusk-eel," a new species of fish discovered in the Pacific Ocean. Uiblein and Nielsen Its third eye is blind. Scientists discovered a five ...