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A one-of-a-kind killer whale population appears to be threatened by human appetites for Antarctic toothfish, better known to restaurant-goers as Chilean Sea Bass.

As fishing fleets patrol their waters, catching what was their primary source of food, the whales are vanishing. It’s not certain whether they’ve only moved on, or are dying out, or both. But [...]

Transgenic trout with "six pack abs." (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Rhode Island)

ScienceDaily (Mar. 11, 2010) — A 10-year effort by a University of Rhode Island scientist to develop transgenic rainbow trout with enhanced muscle growth has yielded fish with what have been described as six-pack abs and muscular shoulders that could provide a [...]

There are growing concerns about the future of the Lough Neagh eel fishery and the hundreds of jobs it supports.

Fishermen are worried about the lack of elvers returning to Lough Neagh.
Lough Neagh is one of Europe's biggest waterways and its richest eel fishery.
But something has gone terribly wrong.
The millions of young eels, known as elvers, [...]

Throughout America's Rocky Mountain West, rivers and streams are getting hotter and drier, presenting new challenges for trout already struggling with road building, habitat fragmentation, pollution and other man-made disturbances. Pictured: A brook trout swims in a native stream.
Eric Engbretson, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Scientists believe that the nearly 5-degree Fahrenheit temperature increase forecasted for [...]

Bluefin Tuna

This January a 511-pound monster of a bluefin tuna sold at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market for $175,000—by far the highest price paid for a fish in nine years. By that afternoon, customers at Kyubey, a Michelin-starred restaurant a stone’s throw from the market, were dining on the tuna’s fatty belly, or toro, the most [...]

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has unveiled detailed proposals on how whaling could be regulated in a way that countries still engaged in the hunt and those opposed to it could both live with.

The essential dilemma is what it has been for decades: some societies view the whale as just another wild animal to be [...]

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship Steve Irwin, background, and the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru use water cannons to each other in Antarctic Sea. The U.S.-based activist group, sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, trying [...]

A marine ecologist is attempting to break his own world record for rearing deep sea squid in captivity.

According to New Zealand Herald, this is merely a warm-up project for Steve O'Shea from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand – the main goal is to one day raise a giant squid in a tank.
"The end game [...]

ScienceDaily (Feb. 17, 2010) — Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and Montana Microbial Products (MMP) of Butte, Mont., have developed a barley protein concentrate that could be fed to trout and other commercially produced fish.

Fish physiologists Rick Barrows (left) and Gibson Gaylord (right) inspect pellets made of barley protein as technician Jason Frost (background) loads [...]

In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010 released by the Institute of Cetacean Research of Japan, an activist, right, aboard anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Steve Irwin uses a water cannon towards the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru in the waters of Antarctica. The U.S.-based activist group, sends vessels to confront the Japanese [...]