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Noise from passing motorboats increases stress levels in young coral reef fish and reduces their ability to flee from predators - causing more than twice as many to be killed.

The Great barracuda is amongst the top predators in their environment and use very highly developed smell and vision senses to locate their prey....

Lionfish, genus Pterois, is very popular amongst those with aquariums, and this trade may have led to them being described as amongst some of...

A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge has shown that the dusky dottyback, a small predatory reef fish, can change the...

The number of US fish stocks listed as overfished, or subject to overfishing, has dropped to an all-time low since NOAA Fisheries began monitoring...

When tunas dive down to cold depths their body temperature stays warm but their heart temperature can fall by 15 degrees within minutes. The heart is chilled because it receives blood directly from the gills which mirrors water temperature. This clearly imposes stress upon the heart but it keeps beating, despite the temperature change. In most other animals the heart would stop.

In the last 60 years the fishing industry have caught nine out of every ten large fish. That's only 10% of large fish like...

SCUBA divers underestimate the amount of life in heavily-fished areas, a study suggests. Scientists from Australia compared fish counts by SCUBA divers—who produce noisy...

Eels are losing the fight to survive when faced with marine noise pollution such as that of passing ships, according to a study published...

For the first time, Britain's Royal Mail has issued stamps championing an environmental issue - and that issue is over-fishing.