The odds are that every second farmed salmon we eat has lost much of its ability to hear. Although fish senses aren’t usually a consideration when they’re on a plate, researchers now know that deafness in farmed salmon is due to a deformity in the ear, caused by accelerated growth in aquaculture.

Fish transplanted to Lake Michigan already had the genes to adapt to their new lifestyle

A newly discovered “lachrymal saber” could illuminate relationships between an order of deadly fishes

Scientists have long been trying to figure out how exactly our ancestors evolved from fish to land vertebrates some 375 million years ago. Now a tiny, eyeless fish that walks and climbs up waterfalls could offer some clues... By Kaitlyn Tiffany.

In Asia, there will be no fish stocks for commercial fishing by 2048 if trends continue. That's one of the projections made by four new United Nations scientific reports on biodiversity that showed the Earth is losing plants, animals and clean water at a dramatic rate.

Humans are destroying the natural world at an alarming and unsustainable rate, according to four landmark U.N. reports presented at a meeting of scientists in Medellín, Colombia, on Friday. This devastation and the decline of biodiversity—the variety of plant and animal life—is so severe, that it is endangering economies, livelihoods, food security, access to drinking water, and the general quality of life of people around the world.

Researchers introduced SoFi, a soft robotic fish that can be operated underwater with a souped up Super Nintendo controller.

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One of the best documented cases ever of a ‘rain’ of fish took place in Cross Creek Ranch, a planned community development in Fulshear, Texas on the afternoon of January 16, 2018. By Paul Cropper.

A Japanese city has been placed on high alert after a supermarket sold portions of a potentially-deadly blowfish more poisonous than cyanide. 

Climate change poses a looming threat to Hawaiian fishponds, which have undergone a renaissance in recent years, University of Hawaii researchers have concluded. The study was conducted from 2004 to 2016 at Heeia Fishpond by scientists with the UH School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology and the fishpond stewards Paepae o He‘eia.

That was a fish, once. Tuna specifically. Katsuobushi—repeatedly smoked, fermented fish—holds the record as the hardest food on earth, bearing more in common by the end of its processing to petrified wood than to sealife.

How I transformed my freshwater aquarium into an aquaponics garden for year-round organic produce (and stopped doing water changes).

With every toilet flush, we expose fish and other aquatic wildlife to the pharmaceuticals we're taking. By Reynard Loki.

Trump's 2018 budget would cut programs that protect declining salmon fisheries. By Saul Elbein.

This Clip of Clownfish Working Together Could Be Straight Out of a Disney Movie.

Concerns over animal welfare have led to changes in recent years in how livestock are raised. But seafood has been missing from the conversation. One group aims to change that.

Can a fish be depressed? This question has been floating around my head ever since I spent a night in a hotel across from an excruciatingly sad-looking Siamese fighting fish. His name was Bruce Lee, according to a sign beneath his little bowl. There we were trying to enjoy a complimentary bloody mary on the last day of our honeymoon and there was Bruce Lee, totally still, his lower fin grazing the clear faux rocks on the bottom of his home. When he did finally move, just slightly, I got the sense that he would prefer to be dead.

We hear that trash like food wrappers, plastic bottles, straws, and cigarette lighters can pose a problem for birds and marine life, but for many of us “out of sight, out of mind.” But sometimes it takes a photograph to drive home the damage our litter is causing.   Dan Clark, with the US Fish …