A sockeye salmon scurries through shallow water in the Adams River while preparing to spawn near Chase, British Columbia northeast of Vancouver October 11, 2006. During their journey through inland waters from the Pacific Ocean to the river, some 405 km (252 miles), the sockeye turn a deep red from their silvery-purple color and their head turns green. In the shallow gravel beds, the males and females pair off as they search for nesting areas where they spawn and then die off. P
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Fish are migrating more than 40 miles per decade as the oceans heat up, pushing populations into fisheries where other countries have exclusive rights and setting the stage for an era of surging international conflict, new research has found
Unless greenhouse gas emissions decrease rapidly, 70 countries are projected to contain one or more new fishery stocks in their exclusive offshore economic zones by the end of the century, according to a study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed […]
