Category: Marine Science
Devon and Cornwall fisheries to get Christmas and New Year boost. Thousands of fish have found new homes just in time for Christmas thanks to the Environment Agency’s annual restocking programme. For the third year ...
More than 150 000 Europeans call on EU to ban bottom-trawling to protect ocean and climate. Environmental NGOs present Commissioner Sinkevičius with giant pop-up storybook on how bottom-trawling impacts our marine environment. A giant colourful ...
Big-headed ancient fish had land on its mind. New insights into emergence of tetrapods. Sophisticated CT scanning of the cranium of an Australian fish fossil has given new insights to explain how fish first left ...
Patricia Orme – Our People. In 2021, the Marine Institute is profiling our people, sharing their study and career paths, the work they do at the Marine Institute and the important contribution their work delivers. ...
High levels of aquatic plant cover benefits juvenile Atlantic salmon. In response to three decades of declining Atlantic salmon in most of their native range, scientists are looking at how the management of juvenile habitat ...
Extended protection for flapper skate in Scotland The critically endangered flapper skate is to gain further protection following the extension of an urgent Marine Protected Area (MPA) within the Inner Sound of Skye. The site ...
Fish help control crown-of-thorns starfish numbers on Great Barrier Reef. Reef fish, such as emperors, tropical snappers and rockcods, help keep numbers of crown-of-thorns starfish in check on the Great Barrier Reef, according to a ...
Civil society calls for ocean health protection. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) last week concluded their 26th Meeting of the Council in Kingston, Jamaica to debate a “roadmap” designed to open a whole new frontier ...
Jonathan White – Our People. In 2021, the Marine Institute is profiling Our People, sharing their study and career paths, the work they do at the Marine Institute and the important contribution their work delivers. ...
2021 Stock Book Launched By The Marine Institute The Marine Institute has launched the 2021 Stock Book, the annual publication which provides the latest impartial scientific advice on the status of 74 key fish stocks ...
Chemical pollutants disrupt reproduction in anemonefish By Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ocean pollution is unfortunately becoming more commonplace, raising concerns over the effect of chemicals that are ...
Heartbeat of the ocean: Stunning Mural Delivers Ocean & Climate Action Message in European Commissioner’s Hometown “Save the Ocean to Save the Climate” – message to Virginijus Sinkevičius in Vilnius, Lithuania Our Fish presented a ...
Nanomaterials will be important in the future of food packaging Nofima scientists have studied which nanomaterials are suitable for encapsulating natural antimicrobial agents. The purpose is to make food packaging greener. The most important reason ...
Business backlash against deep-sea mining grows. Volkswagen Group, Triodos Bank, Scania, and Patagonia today joined growing calls for a moratorium on the emerging deep-sea mining industry. The world’s second-biggest car manufacturer, a leading ethical bank, ...
Behavioural adaptations that may help Antarctic fishes adapt to warming Southern Ocean. Scientists describe how Antarctic fishes with and without haemoglobin react to acute thermal stress. The responses may help the fish withstand the impacts ...
US proposal rescinding critical habitat regulations. To better fulfil the conservation purposes of the Endangered Species Act, NOAA Fisheries and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are proposing to rescind the joint regulatory definition of ...
Forests could be key to estuarine fish conservation. The diversity of threatened fish in estuaries increases when surrounded by forest cover, whereas estuaries surrounded by farmland show the opposite effect. Estuaries — areas where rivers ...
Globally acclaimed artists’ ocean-climate-action mural in Lithuania. The world-renowned team of Spanish artists Boa Mistura is this week creating a reminder of how important healthy oceans are to our wellbeing, by creating a huge mural in ...
David Reid – Our People. In 2021, the Marine Institute is profiling our people, sharing their study and career paths, the work they do at the Marine Institute and the important contribution their work delivers. ...
Endangered mako sharks get a break. International fishery managers agree to historic yet potentially short-term North Atlantic ban. Conservationists are heralding a hard-fought ban on retention of North Atlantic shortfin mako sharks adopted today by ...
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