Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

The dolphins herd the fish toward human fishers who wait by the shore, hip deep in water. Then, at exactly the right moment, the dolphins dive, a signal for the fishers to cast their nets.

Humans have worked with other species to find food for millenniums, including honeyguides in southeast Africa and Indigenous American accounts of hunting alongside wolves.And net-casting fishers ...

Eastern Baltic cod have evolved to be smaller and slip through nets, according to landmark research that links overfishing to ...

A study of 7000-year-old exposed coral reef fossils reveals how human fishing has transformed Caribbean reef food webs: as ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mauricio Cantor, behavioral ecologist at Oregon State University, about his study on how humans and dolphins work together to fish in a southern Brazilian city.

In Brazil, where humans and dolphins fish in tandem, ... The dolphins can then pull a few fish from the net to eat or more easily prey on the mullet trapped against the outside of the nets.

About 10 dolphins work with humans out of a group of about 60. The team calculated that dolphins that worked with people were 13 per cent more likely to survive through the study period than ones ...

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This story was updated at 8:37 p.m. EDT. Landings of tuna and other large predatory fish species in warm-water oceans account for roughly 70 percent of all methylmercury in seafood, according to ...

For generations, bottlenose dolphins have cooperated with artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil, to catch migratory fish called mullet. The dolphins herd groups of fish toward shore ...