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Is It Time To Catch The Wave Of Rebounding Atlantic Bluefin Tuna?

Fish market workers in Jersey City, N.J., prepare a bluefin tuna for shipment to some of New York's top sushi restaurants. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Is It Time To Catch The Wave Of Rebounding Atlantic Bluefin Tuna?

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November 9, 2017 • New England fishers say it's been decades since they've hauled in so many tuna, and some in the industry are urging higher quotas. But some environmental groups fear the population is still imperiled.

Coral Reef Fish Are More Resilient Than We Thought, Study Finds

An orange clownfish, Amphiprion percula, lives in symbiosis with a host anemone on the Great Barrier Reef. Alejandro Usobiaga/Scientific Reports hide caption

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Coral Reef Fish Are More Resilient Than We Thought, Study Finds

August 31, 2017 • Ocean acidification can cause reckless behavior in coral reef fish. But researchers say that coral reef environments have large chemical variations daily, which can offer recovery time for fish.

Truckin': Salmon Take A Long, Strange Trip To The Pacific Ocean

Pacific Or Bust: Fingerling Chinook salmon are dumped into a holding pen Tuesday as they are transferred from a truck into the Sacramento River in Rio Vista, Calif. From here, they'll be towed downstream for a bit, then make their own way out to the Pacific Ocean. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption

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Truckin': Salmon Take A Long, Strange Trip To The Pacific Ocean

March 26, 2014 • California's severe drought has left rivers so dry that young salmon can't make their usual migration. To save the fish and the industry, the state is giving millions of salmon a lift.

Truckin': Salmon Take A Long, Strange Trip To The Pacific Ocean

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Animal Magnetism: How Salmon Find Their Way Back Home

Bright red sockeye salmon swim up the Fraser River to the stream where they were hatched. Current Biology, Putman et al. hide caption

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Animal Magnetism: How Salmon Find Their Way Back Home

February 7, 2013 • When salmon are ready to leave the ocean and go back to their birthplace, they use magnetism to find their home river. But scientists fear fish born in hatcheries might have a poor sense of direction if they're raised in places surrounded by man-made objects that drown out the planet's natural magnetic field.

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The $1.76 Million Tuna: Great For Publicity, Bad For The Species

January 7, 2013 • A sushi chain owner paid about $3,600 per pound for a Pacific bluefin tuna on Saturday, during the first auction of the year at Toyko's Tsukiji fish market. Alas, the headline-grabbing species is in danger of being overfished, scientists say.