On January 29, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) completed a $5.5 million conservation project to remove three wrecked ships, weighing a total of one million pounds, from protected wildlife areas in the Pacific Ocean. The restoration project is part of an ongoing...
A rise of recent shark attacks is not stopping swimmers or surfers from getting in the warm waters around the Hawaiian island. In Maui waters last year, there were eight shark attacks. Statewide, there were 14 attacks in 2013. In 2012, there were 11 attacks in Hawaii...
Sushi restaurateur Kiyoshi Kimura paid 7.36 million yen (about $70,000) for a 507-pound bluefin tuna in the year’s celebratory first auction at Tokyo’s Tsukiji market on Sunday, just 5 percent of what he paid a year earlier despite signs that the species is in serious...
Shark attacks seem to be increasing in recent years, and although the number are minuscule compared to the millions swimming in beaches everyday, attacks still pose a valid concern for swimmers. However, with the help of Twitter, researchers in Western Australia are...
An attack by a school of carnivorous fish has injured 70 people bathing in an Argentine river, including seven children who lost parts of their fingers or toes. A seven-year-old girl had her finger partially amputated and dozens more suffered bite wounds on their...
Seven months ago things looked pretty bleak for the Mangarahara cichlid Ptychochromis insolitus. The only habitat for this rare Madagascar fish species had been destroyed and the cichlid was down to its last 3 known individuals, all of which were males. In a...
 Fluval "Room Tank-Over" Contest! Grand Prize includes a completely stocked 24 gallon Fluval M60-Reef Aquarium Set with Cabinet or a 22.4 gallon Fluval F60Freshwater Aquarium Set with Cabinet. Plus, Fluval Aquatic Expert Francis Yupangco will personally come to your...
A recent study done by the University of Florida, focused primarily on reefs in the Grand Caymans, suggests even damaged reefs can recover. Researchers at UF studied coral reefs in the Cayman Islands for the past 13 years. The Grand Cayman was optimal for the study,...
Western Australia is planning on using controversial shark culling as a "more aggressive" way to prevent shark attacks on humans. The total number of shark attacks per year is very low, a study in 2011 cited that on an average year there is 1.1 shark attacks per year....
Governor Neil Abercrombie signed the controversial West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area Rules which limits the collection of many commonly kept marine aquarium fishes from Hawaii . The rules are the result of ten years of the discussion and debates  to...