Handling fish and exposing them to air can cause discard mortality, which is when fish die after they are caught and released, said Holden Harris, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the UF/IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station
The complexity of disassembling a reel may seem daunting at first, but it can turn out to be quite easy if you use a bit of method, photos and a very good screwdriver of the right size
This was surprising to me, particularly because biofluorescence requires a light source, and light is not something we typically attribute to the deep sea, says Christopher Martinez, a fish biologist and an assistant professor in the department of ecology and evolution at UC Irvine
Whoever decorated this tree has an impressive collection of baitcasters
With only sixty miles to go, can they all make the final push