Commercial fishing for Pacific sardines is prohibited because the population is estimated to be below a precautionary level set by managers. Pacific sardine is overfished (2025 stock assessment), and ...

When research scientist Gary Longo first saw the results of his genomic analysis of sardines, he thought he must have mixed up his samples. Besides the Pacific sardines common on the West Coast, many ...

Pacific sardines are small, but they play a big role in marine ecosystems. Now their recovery is under threat.

The Amazon River harbors the largest biodiversity of freshwater fish in the world. What is the origin of this abundance of species? Researchers at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have ...

Mass sardine die-offs have prompted the government to limit sardine catches until 2 October, but conservationists say this is ...

The National Fisheries Institute reports that canned tuna was the third most consumed type of seafood in the United States in 2022. While sardines weren't in the top 10, which is 79% of total seafood ...

Eating sardines can boost essential nutrients like protein, B vitamins, and vitamin D. The nutrients in sardines can protect against diabetes and cognitive decline. Although sardines are lower in ...

Sardines collected during NOAA Fisheries 2023 Coastal Pelagic Species Survey. Genomic analysis later revealed that the catch contained both Pacific and Japanese sardine. The two species look so ...