Coastal Restoration

The nest found in the city of Blaine near the Canadian border is about the size of a basketball and contained an estimated 100 to 200 hornets.

(Honolulu) –The last known Achatinella apexfulva in the Hawaiian Islands, “George,” died on New Year’s Day, 2019. George was approximately 14 years old and his name was derived from the Pinta Islan…

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- U.S. commercial fishing generated more than $144 billion in sales in 2016, buoyed by growth in key species such a

Boats are damaged and stones thrown as French and UK fishermen duel in the English Channel.

Every night, a great migration takes place. It's bigger than any you've probably heard of—and even more surprising is that it's vertical.

Despite raising wages and expanding overtime, owners of seafood business on the Eastern Shore say they cannot find locals to replace seasonal Mexican workers.

A walker found the "odd-looking" sea creatures while walking on a Cornish beach.

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union made a key breakthrough on Friday to completely ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination. Th

Pennsylvania State University scientists analyzed images of impacted and non-impacted deep sea corals to characterize their symbiotic relationship with brittle stars and determine if brittle stars influenced coral recovery from the Deepwater Horizon spill.

More than a thousand feet below the surface, the ocean floor seemed to come alive before the eyes - and cameras - of a team of scientists.

3-Minute Market Insight: Pacific Loligo Squid have been dramatically impacted by the warm water effects of El Nino. The Loligo fishery started strong, but as...

My job is to write about the wonders and challenges of our coast and oceans, but I’ll admit: Before this story, I had no idea what an abalone looked like.

More challenging than birdwatching and not nearly as popular, insect-watching — noting and sharing exactly what one sees and where — is nevertheless on the rise. Concern about dwindling native insect populations is one reason why. And new technolog

Researchers analyzed high-definition imagery of over three hundred deep-sea coral colonies from 2011 – 2017 to quantify their recovery from the oil spill.

South Florida’s water woes come as researchers in their annual State of the Climate report released Wednesday warn that a warming globe could lead to an increase in ecological tragedies.

The animal rights group PETA put up a billboard urging Baltimore to stop eating meat, crab specifically.

It's not every day that an amateur gardener's observations become the subject of scientific study. But one keen-eyed French naturalist named Pierre Gros has managed to alert professional entomologists to a long-ignored giant predatory worm invasion. In a Peer J study published on May 22, "Giant worms chez moi!" zoologist Jean-Lou Justine of the Muséu

The shellfish should arrive in restaurants as early as Wednesday and in fish markets later this week, meaning Bay Area families can return to the tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving with platters of freshly steamed and cracked Dungeness crab. The best retail prices are expected to be $5.99 to $6.99 per pound, according to Mike Lucas, president of North Coast Fisheries, a shellfish processor and distributor in Santa Rosa. On Wednesday, the two Woodhouse locations will return to offering their “Dungeness Madness” special: a whole steamed crab with potatoes, greens and garlic bread for $20 (the price will likely rise over the weekend). After last year’s season was delayed by months because of a toxic algal bloom, the start of this year’s brought a sense of relief to those in the fishing industry. Crab boats began dropping their pots in the ocean Monday and were allowed to start pulling them up at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. At Sun Fat Seafood, a market in the Mission District, employee Hoa Kuu said he expects to have local crab in the store this weekend. There is one limit on the fishery, though, as a 60-mile stretch of the coast between Point Reyes and the Mendocino-Sonoma county line is not yet open because of sporadic domoic acid showing up in tests conducted by the California Department of Public Health.

A Environment Canada study looking at the environmental impacts on organisms near Nova Scotia hatcheries has found some negative effects on downstream ecosystems.