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 ...
While government departments are still investigating the cause of the mass sardine die-off along the South African coastline, ...
Kelsey James/NOAA Fisheries Gary Longo was looking for what he thought would be small genetic differences across a single species of small, ocean-dwelling fish: Pacific sardine. But as he examined the ...
High levels of pilchard herpesvirus have been found in sardines involved in South Africa’s extensive mortality event, with ...
Conservationists are concerned that a mass sardine die-off, possibly from the pilchard herpesvirus pathogen, could reduce ...
The deaths have intensified concerns over PHV, a disease that devastated sardine populations in Australia and New Zealand ...
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 ...