As climate change intensifies across the global ocean, fish stocks are shifting their distributions in search of suitable ...

Commonly known as billfishes, the large fishes of the families Xiphiidae and Istiophoridae are active predators characterized by a protruding upper jaw that extends considerably beyond their lower jaw ...

Eggs of Huffmanela cf. carcharhini from the skin of an aquarium-held, juvenile sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus, from the Pacific Ocean were studied using light and scanning electron microscopy.

The show features award-winning artist Karen Talbot’s bird art, including some three-dimensional representations of birds. It also includes other species that “take flight,” such as sturgeon, tarpon, ...

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the availability of the Final Atlantic Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) 5-Year Review (Final HMS EFH 5-Year Review) and intent to initiate Amendment ...

Anglers who catch Bluefin Tuna and billfishes in North Carolina no longer need to report those catches to the state. As of Tuesday, April 1, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality’s ...

Climate change influences marine environmental conditions and is projected to increase future environmental variability. In the North Atlantic, such changes will affect the behavior and spatiotemporal ...

Unsurprisingly, studying what most experts consider to be the fastest fish in the ocean is a challenge. Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) belong to a group of fishes called billfishes, which also ...

Scientists from Simon Fraser University are part of an international team of researchers that has developed a new science-based indicator to assess the state of health of the oceans—and the possible ...

A newly published paper has shown that populations of tuna and billfishes in the world's oceans have started to recover after decades of decline. Since 1950, the global extinction risk of oceanic ...

Then, the implementation of management measures in international fisheries organizations effectively reduced fishing mortality, recovering tunas and billfishes. Yet the extinction risk in the ...