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No California Dungeness crab until 2025.
News

No California Dungeness crab until 2025.

  • Katie Rodriguez
  • Dec 6, 2024

‘Tis a crabless Christmas season this year, again.

Visuals 02.16.23
Arts & Culture

Visuals 02.16.23

  • Feb 16, 2023

CHUCK DAVIS

Oceana report reveals new seafood fraud rules aren't promising.
Eat + Drink

Oceana report reveals new seafood fraud rules aren't promising.

  • Mark C. Anderson
  • Jun 9, 2016

A new study from Oceana reveals you definitely don't want to order the "wild salmon" when dining at the White House with Barack and Michelle.

Oceana: Blame sardine overfishing, not just warmer waters, for sea lion deaths.
Blogs

Oceana: Blame sardine overfishing, not just warmer waters, for sea lion deaths.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Mar 24, 2015

The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center counted 170 sea lion pups in its care earlier this month. (In a normal year, they have about 12.)

Aquarium exhibit helps scientists test new method for ocean life surveys.
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Aquarium exhibit helps scientists test new method for ocean life surveys.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Aug 12, 2014

DNA sequencing has made major leaps forward since the Human Genome Project wrapped up in 2003. What just a decade ago was a really expensive, …

Conservation groups reveal the dark side of your swordfish steak.
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Conservation groups reveal the dark side of your swordfish steak.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Aug 6, 2014

Loggerhead sea turtles caught a break July 25, when the National Marine Fisheries Service closed 25,000 square miles of ocean off Southern Cal…

Grunion run caps week of good news for local ocean lovers.
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Grunion run caps week of good news for local ocean lovers.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Jun 27, 2014

UPDATE: The grunions are running! These curious little fishes spawn by flinging themselves by the thousands onto the beach during a rare combi…

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