Sentences with phrase «ocean fish such»

Fatty ocean fish such as salmon and tuna are high in omega - 3 fatty acids and can help reduce cholesterol levels, especially when you eat fish instead of saturated fats from red meats.

Fresh ocean fish such as tuna, marlin, snapper, grouper, salmon, or pompano are all good choices.

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It is reducing habitat for fish reproduction such as mangrove groves and degrading the ocean floor.

Commercial fishing has damaged the ocean's ecosystem to such an extent that large fish populations are only 10 per cent as large as they were in the 1950s.

The Town Board passed rules Tuesday night that limit aquaculture — the growing of ocean life such as kelp, crustaceans or fish for sale — to particular zoning districts in Southold, defining exactly what the practice is and exactly where it's allowed.

These include unpopulated, unfished regions such as the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, and areas that are close to towns and where fishing takes place — such as Kiribati and the Solomon Islands, also in the Pacific.

Bruce Collette, who studies ocean fish at the National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory in Washington DC, and his colleagues conducted the first global assessment of the scrombids and billfish, groups of fish that include some of the species with the highest value as seafood, such as tuna and marlin, as well as staples such as mackerel.

Economists, fisheries and evolutionary biologists from Kiel University, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, and the Finnish University of Helsinki working together in an interdisciplinary project have calculated how fishery and aquaculture will develop in the coming decades in regard to popular types of edible fish such as sea bass, salmon, cod and tuna.

Many freshwater and ocean fish contain dangerous elements such as mercury, industrial chemicals such as dioxins and pesticides such as DDT that are linked to cancer, reproductive effects or other health problems.

«This record of such an unusual and extremely rare fish is exciting, but its also an important reminder that we still have much to learn about the species that inhabit our oceans,» Grace added.

«We used these estimates to map natural extinction risk in modern oceans, and compare it with recent human pressures on the ocean such as fishing, and climate change to identify the areas most at risk,» says Professor Pandolfi.

Indeed, certain species of fish are migrating away from mid-latitude oceans toward cooler waters such as the Arctic Ocean, according to recent studies.

Scientists are finding that, in general, larger ocean organisms such as fishes have less tolerance for temperature change than the microorganisms they consume, such as phytoplankton.

Without fish, there can be no fishing — and such an outcome could be the future: A recent study indicates that the world's oceans appear headed toward a global collapse as overall fishing yields continue to decline dramatically, having dropped by some 10.6 million metric tons since 1994.

As such, the fish is one of the Arctic Ocean's most ecologically important animals.

This is the first time such a «retirement» pattern has been seen in fish that make this river - to - ocean migration, according to University of Washington - led research published in July in the journal Ecology.

And so it was, when I reported on January 21 that fish were found living in an isolated corner of the ocean beneath 740 meters of ice in Antarctica: People asked what this might mean for finding life on distant worlds such as Europa, a moon of Jupiter that very likely harbors an ocean of liquid water beneath a crust of ice.

Trevorhi Taylor, a conservationist at the Canadian nonprofit group Oceans North, said the deal would protect Arctic fish and marine mammals, such as walrus and seals, on which many coastal communities in the North rely.

The research published in the journal Science Advances predicts that as the oceans warm fish — which appear to be superior predators in warm water — will extend their ranges away from the equator and cause a decline in the diversity of invertebrates such as crabs, lobsters, sea urchins and whelks.

Other nations, such as Norway, have already begun fishing in newly opened Arctic waters — meaning the U.S. - controlled zone could be a very small refuge unless the government can persuade the seven other nations with Arctic Ocean claims to follow suit.

Russia and the Ukraine on Friday again scuttled plans to create the world's largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica, pristine waters rich in energy and species such as whales, penguins and vast stocks of fish, an environmentalist group said.

Much of the plastic in the patch comes from humans» ocean activities, such as fishing and shipping, the researchers found.

Some seafood choices are more ocean - friendly than others, based on factors such as whether a species is abundant and whether it is fished or farmed in ways that harm other marine life.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- Russia and the Ukraine on Friday again scuttled plans to create the world's largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica, pristine waters rich in energy and species such as whales, penguins and vast stocks of fish, an environmentalist group said.

They are therefore probably better adapted to ocean acidification than other fish species such as the cod that spawns near the surface,» Clemmesen said.

Fish - farming companies such as HiddenFjord, in the town of Sørvágur, are the lifeblood of the Faroe Islands, a small nation in the North Atlantic Ocean halfway between Iceland and Norway.

Why do our oceans contain such a staggering diversity of fish of so many different sizes, shapes and colors?

The researchers further note that similar mechanisms might guide other ocean migrants, such as fish, marine mammals and some migratory birds.

And while other creatures thought to be long - extinct have been found lurking in the oceans today — such as the coelacanth fish — it's unlikely the plesiosaur would be absent from the fossil record for 65 million years.

«But this research has shown that fish such as barramundi — which only spend a short part of their lives in the ocean — will be impacted by ocean acidification.»

«Changes in ocean conditions that affect fish stocks, such as temperature and oxygen concentration, are strongly related to atmospheric warming and carbon emissions,» said author Thomas Frölicher, principal investigator at the Nippon Foundation - Nereus Program and senior scientist at ETH Zürich.

Hundreds of meters below the ocean, bioluminescence is such a useful adaptation for living in near - total darkness that fish have evolved it 27 separate times, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Coral reefs, which support diverse communities of fish and other marine life, are declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human - caused impacts, such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

The report found that ocean warming is affecting a multitude of ocean processes, including breeding and migration patterns of ocean species such as plankton, whales and fish.

However, Tara Oceans takes such investigations one step further by integrating the genetic, morphological, and functional diversity in its environmental context at global ocean scale and at multiple depths (Figure 1), from viruses to fish larvae.

In Tanzania, meanwhile, the US Agency for International Development has backed a project to help eight AIDS - affected villages on the Indian Ocean develop enterprises such as paprika cultivation and fish farming, while bringing in theatre groups to perform plays that discuss HIV and AIDS.

Several groups investigate effects of ocean acidification and warming on commercially important fish species such as cod, herring or tuna.

Eventually, humans consume ocean creatures such as fish.

The microorganisms are used as food by other organisms, such as fish and ocean mammals, making the iron available to other creatures in the food chain.

He will be presenting his research findings on ocean acidification and moderators will lead a discussion with the community on what the changing oceans mean for a fishing community such as Dillingham.

Key components of land - based sources include litter, trash and debris from construction, ports and marinas, commercial and industrial facilities, and trash blown out of garbage containers, trucks, and landfills.1 Ocean - based sources, such as, overboard discharges from ships and discarded fishing gear, account for the other 20 %.

The researchers use computer models to forecast future ocean conditions such as surface temperatures, salinity, and currents, and project how the distribution of different fish species could respond to climate change.

«Industrial activities such as commercial fishing, use of plastic abrasives, and spillage of plastic pellets are probably the main source for plastic ending up in the ocean.

An international research group led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has now found evidence for potentially harmful effects the increasing acidification of the oceans may have on larvae of commercially important fish species such as cod.

In the 2007 outbreak, nine people fell ill due to ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP), which can occur after consuming predatory ocean fish — such as barracuda, amberjack, red snapper, and grouper — that have eaten contaminated plant - eating fish.

However since the rivers and oceans contain wastes and chemicals such as drugs and mercury they end up in fish.

Include ocean fish (not farmed) such as salmon, sardines, tuna, anchovies, and mackerel.

Where to find it: Ocean - caught fish and shellfish, eggs, iodized salt and dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt.

We are still lucky living down - under close to Antarctica with our relatively low polluted waters, sadly though, seafood and fish, whether from the ocean, lakes and streams, or farm - raised, are all showing signs of such contamination in the Northern Hemisphere.

I do NOT recommend eating fish or taking fish oil as our oceans are dying from these things... there's just no such thing as sustainable fishing anymore and it's so bad that the government uses our taxes to massacre dolphins and seals and other endangered marine life, for eating the fish they're meant to, instead of stopping the reason fish are so depleted in the first place, commercial fishing.