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Oct 31, 2022

How Much Ocean Floor Off the Southeast Coast Do Natural Reefs Occupy?

And how much more territory belongs to natural reefs than to artificial reefs?
image: A ruddy turnstone on the shore of the Mosquito Lagoon, Florida. Credit: Kate Perez/CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Oct 24, 2022

How Do Restored Oyster Reefs Stack Up Against Live Oyster Reefs?

Any angler who has spent time in the estuaries of North Carolina has seen bags of oyster shells and layers of repaired oyster reefs. As you’ve steered your vessel around restored reefs, have you ever wondered whether they actually function like natural reefs?

image: Southern flounder.

Oct 17, 2022

Is Climate Change Making More Flounder Male Than Female?

A new study looks at why populations of southern flounder are declining in the Southeast and the Gulf of Mexico.
Bluefish illustration.

Oct 10, 2022

Do Contaminants Affect the Bluefish Population?

Scientists looked at whether PCBs and pesticides are leaving a chemical "fingerprint.”
illustration: Passive acoustic recorders and seining were used to investi- gate long-term patterns of fish courtship sounds and their relationship to young-of-the-year appearance and abundance, credit: Claire Mueller.

Oct 3, 2022

Can the Sounds of Courting Fish Help Predict the Number of Offspring?

South Carolina scientists compared underwater fish sounds and environmental data with the numbers of young fish they collected.
image: Gulf Coast red tide. Credit: NOAA.

Sep 26, 2022

What Can Twitter Tell Us About Red Tides?

A new study compared tweets and scientific counts of algae during a year-long red tide.

Sep 12, 2022

Do Wildlife Management Areas Support Local Businesses? 

New research shows how visitors to wildlife management areas — including hunters, anglers, and boaters — make significant contributions to the local and statewide economy.
image: Recreational boater family cruises the ICW behind Figure Eight Island.

Sep 1, 2022

Can Boating Cause Carbon Monoxide Poisoning?

Danger is in the air — and you can’t see or smell it.
dolphinfish, caught off Hatteras.

Aug 29, 2022

Where Do Dolphinfish Roam?

As part of the world’s largest fish tagging program, anglers up and down the East Coast have played a key role in tracking the species’ movements — and you can help, too.
oyster toadfish, credit: Allison Scott : NOAA.

Aug 22, 2022

Are Fish Noisier Today Than They Were 70 Years Ago?

Using a new acoustic recording device, a research team captured the underwater soundscape and compared it to recordings that the U.S. Navy made decades ago.