This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, School of. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=201&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:44:52 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Twenty one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists - many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world's fisheries - have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51229 Environment Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51229 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:25:31 GMT The planet Mars has a moon named Deimos, so it seems only appropriate that the ocean observatory MARS in Monterey Bay have its own DEIMOS. This DEIMOS, however, is an underwater acoustic package designed to monitor movements of fish and zooplankton. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48087 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48087 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:00:17 GMT "Psychedelica" seems the perfect name for a fish that is a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and behaves in ways contrary to its brethren, including bouncing like a ball along the seafloor instead of swimming. The fish, which has rare forward-facing eyes like humans, also has a secretive nature. That could be the reason they weren't spotted by divers until just last year nor described in the scientific literature until now. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47496 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47496 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:00:30 GMT The discovery in the last decade of new suites of microorganisms capable of using various forms of nitrogen -- discoveries that have involved a number of University of Washington researchers -- is one reason to rethink what we know about the nitrogen cycle. So says University of Washington's Claire Horner-Devine, assistant professor of aquatic and fishery sciences, in a recent Science magazine opinion piece. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42407 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42407 Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT Most ocean robots have to talk to scientists or satellites to share information. A school of robotic fish developed at the University of Washington communicate directly, allowing them to work cooperatively without ever coming to the surface. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42371 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (hickeyh@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42371 Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:51:28 GMT A fish that would rather crawl into crevices than swim, and that may be able to see in the same way that humans do, could represent an entirely unknown family of fishes, says a University of Washington fish expert. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40737 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40737 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:43:45 GMT A new way of looking at maximizing fishery profits, published this week in Science, could lead fishers to buy into the idea of catching fewer fish than they are allowed under commonly used management guidelines. It could be a win-win for groups wanting to see depleted fish stocks rebuilt and fishers wanting to stay in business because, it turns out, conservation promotes both large fish stocks and higher profits. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38463 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38463 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:10:26 GMT The ability of salmon to migrate extraordinary distances makes it hard at a management level to know whose fish are whose and at a biological level to unravel the mystery of their ocean migration. A $4.1 million effort just launched by the University of Washington's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences aims to help by gathering genetic information for thousands upon thousands of Pacific Rim salmon populations and creating open-access databases for managers, treaty-makers and scientists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38029 Environment Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38029 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:53:37 GMT A ghostly, mutant ratfish caught off Whidbey Island in Washington state is the only completely albino fish ever seen by both the curator of the University of Washington's 7.2 million-specimen fish collection and a fish and wildlife biologist with more than 20 years of sampling fish in Puget Sound. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36703 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36703 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:52:48 GMT A technique used since the 1930s to estimate the abundance of fish has shown for the first time that enforcement patrols are effective at reducing poaching of elephants, African buffaloes and black rhinos in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28391 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28391 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT The nature of the fisheries crisis is a clash of objectives, not a collapse of world fisheries, says a University of Washington aquatic and fishery sciences professor. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27980 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27980 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT Ray Hilborn, UW professor of aquatic and fishery sciences, and two University of British Columbia professors are being rewarded for their work in understanding the human impact on the world's fisheries and ocean environment with an international environmental award and $206,300. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26614 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26614 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:00:00 GMT Scientists with a just-announced $19 million grant are poised to develop new technologies and infrastructures to monitor changes in the Columbia River and predict how they affect wide swaths of ocean. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26440 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26440 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT With few of the Pacific Northwest's 200 coastal rivers remaining unaltered by human development, watershed scientists are meeting this week to consider emerging policy issues and scientific challenges they foresee in the decade ahead. Ten presentations and a panel discussion are planned as part of the "Stewardship and Restoration of Coastal Rivers" conference, Wednesday. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23677 Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23677 Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:00:00 GMT Like an armada of small rototillers, female salmon can industriously churn up entire stream beds from end to end, sometimes more than once, using just their tails. A University of Washington researcher writes in this month's BioScience journal that the silt, minerals and nutrients that are unleashed cause changes in rivers and lakes far from the nests. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23076 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23076 Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT A common notion is that in some places the more valuable species of fish have been fished out, but that didn't hold true in two-thirds of the world's large marine ecosystems selected for study by University of Washington researchers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22505 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22505 Tue, 14 Feb 2006 08:00:00 GMT The authors of a paper in this week's Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Section B, who say their 7.9 mm-long fish from a peat swamp in Southeast Asia is the smallest fish and vertebrate known, have failed to make note of work published last fall that describes sexually mature, male anglerfishes measuring 6.2 mm to 7.4 mm in length. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22209 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22209 Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington faculty members are able to provide background on the ways local watersheds have been managed, the effects of land-use changes on watersheds, and other information concerning flooding and landslides as the region continues to experience wet, winter weather. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21857 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21857 Fri, 13 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington Alaska Salmon Program, the world's longest-running effort to monitor salmon and their ecosystems, has received nearly $2.4 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to expand its sampling scope and sophistication. The program has applications for Pacific salmon all along the West Coast. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9808 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9808 Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:00:00 GMT The ones that stay and the ones that stray are biological puzzles among Pacific salmon, of whom the vast majority - but not all - travel thousands of miles to sea and back to the streams where they hatched, says Thomas P. Quinn, author of a recently released book, "The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9665 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9665 Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:00:00 GMT Contradicting previous assumptions, new fisheries research shows that allocating catch among vessels reduces the amount of fish discarded at sea. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9186 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9186 Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT The connection between species richness and area occupied, recognized by biologists for more than a hundred years as a fundamental ecological relationship in plant and in animal communities, has been discerned for the first time at the microbial level. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6867 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6867 Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT James R. Karr, who helped define the characteristics of healthy waterways and developed a system for documenting aquatic well being, has received the top fishery conservation award from the American Fisheries Society, the nation's oldest and largest professional organization representing fisheries scientists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6454 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6454 Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT In the midst of substantial debate surrounding recommendations made to the president by the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and Congressional work on reauthorizing the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the symposium "Improving Fishery Management: Melding Science and Governance," Nov. 15 and 16, will weigh the latest findings on how fisheries are managed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6041 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6041 Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT