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Ganges River Dolphin population falls below 300, faces new threat from oil exploration

Did fish poisoning drive Polynesian colonization of the Pacific?

Over 30 percent of open ocean sharks and rays face extinction

Madfish?: scientist warns that farmed fish could be a source of mad cow disease

New report predicts dire consequences for every U.S. region from global warming

Will jellyfish take over the world?

Marine scientist calls for abstaining from seafood to save oceans

Sushi restaurant, Nobu, warns patrons not to eat bluefin tuna, but serves it anyway

85 percent of oyster reefs gone, threatening coastal environments and a favored delicacy

Six nations pledge to protect the Coral Triangle

Blue whales return to migration pattern used before commercial whaling

Turkey ignores bluefin tuna quotas, further imperiling critically-endangered species

Secret movements of the basking shark uncovered

Not only do fish feel pain, it changes their behavior

Coral reef loss in Caribbean leads to ongoing fish declines

New protections for coral reefs and dwindling fish species in Belize

Mediterranean bluefin tuna has only three years left unless fishery closes

Whale sharks threatened by interbreeding

Massive population of rare Irrawaddy dolphins discovered in Bangladesh

Tuna industry launches new organization to save tuna from itself

Shortsighted recommendations to eat more fish ignore large-scale environmental impact

Massive freshwater stingray takes 13 men to pull it ashore in Thailand

Illegal fishing estimated at $10-24B per year

Iceland reaffirms whaling targets for 2009

Climate change to have a big impact on marine fisheries

Little-known flatback sea turtle receives extra attention at symposium in Australia

Fishermen – not whales as claimed by Japan – are the cause of fisheries depletion

Middle class communities are worst managers of fisheries

As sea ice retreats, swathe of Arctic closed to fishing

Indigenous rights’ groups to oppose effort to certify ‘sustainable’ aquaculture

Iceland raises whale killing quota to 150 fin whales, 100 minkes per year

Saving leatherback turtles in South America’s smallest country, Suriname: An interview with Liz McHuron

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