Seals belong to a large clade of semi-aquatic animals called Pinnipeds. This clade also includes sea lions and walruses.

Sudden impacts on animals can take the form of mass mortality from extreme events such as heatwaves, wildfires, droughts and ...

Undercurrent News has added US longline headed and gutted (H&G) Pacific cod pricing to its price reporting service. The ...

Large pot traps are widely used by American fishermen to catch millions of cod and crabs, especially in Alaska’s productive fishing grounds. These three-dimensional wire or wooden enclosures allow ...

Some species ... of the Cape Cod Fishermen’s Alliance explained, catching a halibut is like “catching a unicorn.” Today, the 2,300 or so halibut fishermen in Alaska fish with longlines ...

This could lead to upland farms of halibut and black cod, two species important to ... I singled out arctic char and sheefish, two species which show great promise, and are important in traditional ...

And it's not just snow crabs that have been affected by warming waters. Other Alaskan species, like Pacific cod, king salmon and pollock have also experienced population decline. Between 2022 and ...

As temperatures in Alaska rose, the murres’ food supply dwindled, with one of their primary prey, Pacific cod, plunging by about ... s population of the seabird species. However, when comparing ...

The number of Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska crashed by ... A review of a wide range of Gulf of Alaska species from predators to plankton showed about half came out “neutral,” and others ...

By Catrin Einhorn The first evidence was the feathered bodies washing up on Alaskan ... species, are not regaining their numbers, reminded him of what happened when people overfished Atlantic cod ...

which includes many other species of cod fish. They are found in the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea, mainly near Alaska. Pelagic cod are relatively small, reaching an average size of 7.3 ...

which have contributed to declines in some species like Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska,” Robert Foy, director of the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, told CNN. Foy, who is not involved with ...