A groundbreaking new environmental DNA (eDNA) tool is set to transform how scientists monitor rockfish populations. Rockfish are important to both commercial and recreational fisheries in Alaska. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black rockfish. Though females can live up to 60 years, few older than 30 years are found off the Oregon Coast today. (Photo ...

A rockfish born in 1878 was still in a federal fish archive 144 years later, in the form of an ear stone. NOAA Fisheries says the otolith came from a fish collected in 2022 during a survey in the ...

There are over 35 species of rockfish along the coast of British Columbia (BC) and some live for over 100 years. Rockfish grow and reproduce slowly and many BC rockfish species are in decline and of ...

More than 60 species of rockfish live along the U.S. West Coast, including about 10 commercially important species (often sold as red snapper) that inhabit the shallow rocky reefs and kelp beds of the ...

Oregon Department of Fish Wildlife’s Marine Fisheries Research team is headed out to sea to search for old female rockfish, particularly black, canary and yellowtail rockfish. The team, along with two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shortraker rockfish is one of 33 rockfish species found in Alaska. The deep, cold waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound hold ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

SECHELT, BC, March 4, 2025 /CNW/ - Canada's marine species are a precious resource and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)'s mandate is to help sustain and protect them, now and for the future. On ...

A wasting disease that kills rockfish and can cause a severe skin infection in humans has spread to nearly three-quarters of the rockfish in the Chesapeake Bay, cradle of the mid-Atlantic's most ...