Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes ...

The oarfish, which is also referred to as the doomsday fish, is a deep-water creature and spends most of its time floating ...

(Credit: Dan Costa; photo taken under research permit NMFS 23188) For context, each seal makes an average of about 75,000 foraging attempts during a seven-month, roughly 6,000-mile journey across the ...

1 nuclear power plant. And despite the presence of small amounts of radioactive tritium, it said no abnormalities have been detected in Pacific Ocean fish stocks. Aug. 24 marked the first ...

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help estimate ...

Newborn fish are mistaking tiny bits of trash for ... Not long ago I went snorkeling in the Pacific Ocean, a half mile off the southwest coast of Oahu. The flanks of the Hawaiian island are ...

Fears are being raised that Pacific saury ... will move deeper in the ocean when the water temperature is high, spelling fewer opportunities for the fish to catch their favorite plankton in ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct and deadly ... The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a gyre of plastic debris in the ...