A recent Advocate/Times-Picayune article examined what Louisiana anglers caught in 2025 and what those numbers could suggest ...

To get to the bottom of it, they looked at the fish’s anatomy and physiology and discovered something curious in their gills.

Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have reduced Atlantic cod populations in that region and distorted estimates of how many fish were available to catch, a new study finds. Cod stocks have decreased ...

The management of aquatic ecosystems and restoration of water quality are vital to species survival. Gain in-depth knowledge on a molecular level and hands-on experience in the water assessment as you ...

Alaska's fishing industry and environmental groups don't always agree. But this week, they were on the same side — both warning that recent cuts to federal fisheries science could jeopardize Alaska's ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Living Marine Resources Cooperative Science Center (LMRCSC) was established in 2001 as a multi-institutional collaborative program with the ...

Fishing communities can survive, and even thrive, as fish abundance and market prices shift if they can catch a variety of species and nimbly move from one fishery to the next, a new study finds.

Rebecca Howard is a marine biologist who spent six years in graduate school — largely funded by federal scholarship dollars — to earn a doctorate at Oregon State University. Last April, she was hired ...

Successful fisheries management can be best achieved by implementing and enforcing science-based catch or effort limits, research shows. Research published this week in the Proceedings of the National ...

For Alaska’s fishing industry and fishing-dependent communities, 2025 was a year of turmoil and uncertainty, much of it ...

Ray Hilborn, a prominent University of Washington fishery scientist, is under attack from Greenpeace for sometimes leaving out mention of industry funding he receives in articles published in academic ...

Aquatic and fisheries science is the study of aquatic ecosystems to increase scientific understanding and to apply this knowledge to their management and conservation, thereby sustaining them for ...