June 25, 2020 By Miranda Weiss Hakai Magazine
After last year’s heatwave, sockeye fishers watch, wait, and worry in the Bristol Bay watershed.
Uncertain Summer in Alaska’s Fish Basket
Dolphins Learn How to Use Tools from Peers, Just Like Great Apes
June 25, 2020 By Liz Langley National Geographic
In Shark Bay, Australia, bottlenose dolphins that aren’t related have been observed teaching each other a new way to use a tool, a behavior that until now scientists have found only in humans and other great apes.
A Shipwreck’s Incalculable Toll on a Remote Reef
June 24, 2020 By Doug Johnson Hakai Magazine
After a fishing boat ran aground on a fragile atoll, the consequences for the ecosystem were alarming—and curious.
Crab Command and Control
June 22, 2020 By L. Clarke Tate Hakai Magazine
A California team uses science to predict the risk of whale entanglements and shut down the Dungeness crab industry when necessary in “near real time.”
Happy Father’s Day to All the Fish Dads Underwater
June 21, 2020 By Elizabeth Preston The New York Times
Paternal care has evolved dozens of times in aquatic life, and is more common than maternal or combined parenting.