Latest Fish News

US Navy plans to raise jet plane off Hawaii coral reef using inflatable cylinders

Dec. 02, 2023 00:02 AM EST

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy plans to use inflatable cylinders to lift and roll a jet plane off a coral reef in Hawaii before removal from the ocean waters where the aircraft crashed on Nov. 20. Rear Adm. Kevin Lenox, the commander of Carrier Strike Group 3 who is leading the...

US agency ends use of 'cyanide bomb' to kill coyotes and other predators, citing safety concerns

Nov. 28, 2023 22:43 PM EST

RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has halted the use of spring-loaded traps that disperse cyanide powder to kill coyotes and other livestock predators, a practice wildlife advocates have tried to outlaw for decades due to safety concerns. The M-44 ejector-devices...

'Adopt an axolotl' campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species from pollution and trout

Nov. 24, 2023 18:22 PM EST

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Ecologists from Mexico's National Autonomous university on Friday relaunched a fundraising campaign to bolster conservation efforts for axolotls, an iconic, endangered fish-like type of salamander. The campaign, called "Adoptaxolotl,” asks people for as little...

Canned seafood moves beyond tuna sandwiches in a pandemic trend that stuck

Nov. 20, 2023 00:33 AM EST

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sardines swirling in preserved lemons. Mackerel basking in curry sauce. Chargrilled squid bathing in ink. All are culinary delicacies long popular in Europe that are now making their mark on U.S. menus. The country's canned seafood industry is moving well...

Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push

Nov. 19, 2023 02:14 AM EST

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Wildlife officials across the Great Lakes are looking for spies to take on an almost impossible mission: stop the spread of invasive carp. Over the last five years, agencies such as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Minnesota Department of Natural...

Harvest of horseshoe crabs, used for medicine and bait, to be limited to protect rare bird

Nov. 13, 2023 14:46 PM EST

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Interstate fishing regulators are limiting the harvest of a primordial species of invertebrate to try to help rebuild its population and aid a threatened species of bird. Fishermen harvest horseshoe crabs on the East Coast for use as bait and in biomedical...

Wildlife refuge pond in Hawaii mysteriously turns bright pink. Drought may be to blame

Nov. 10, 2023 19:43 PM EST

HONOLULU (AP) — A pond in Hawaii has turned so bubble-gum pink it could be from the set of “Barbie,” but the bizarre phenomenon is no cause for a dance party. Drought may be to blame for the strange hue, scientists say, and they're warning against entering the water or drinking it. ...

Commercial fishing groups sue 13 US tire makers over rubber preservative that's deadly to salmon

Nov. 08, 2023 15:35 PM EST

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The 13 largest U.S. tire manufacturers are facing a lawsuit from a pair of California commercial fishing organizations that could force the companies to stop using a chemical added to almost every tire because it kills migrating salmon. Also found in footwear,...

U.S. regulators will review car-tire chemical that kills salmon, upon request from West Coast tribes

Nov. 05, 2023 14:30 PM EST

U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn. The Yurok tribe in California and...

UN nuclear agency team watches Japanese lab workers prepare fish samples from damaged nuclear plant

Oct. 20, 2023 13:14 PM EDT

ONJUKU, Japan (AP) — Scientists from the U.N. nuclear agency watched Friday as Japanese lab workers prepared samples of fish collected at a seafood market near the Fukushima nuclear plant to test the safety of treated radioactive wastewater released from the damaged plant into the sea. ...