The energy system in the United States has a significant opportunity to meet society's needs
for reliable, affordable, and clean energy by utilizing offshore wind. Development is moving …

Despite progress in understanding and predicting climate change impacts and possible
responses for US marine fisheries, use of climate-related information in federal fishery …

In 2018, the giant manta ray was listed as threatened under the US Endangered Species
Act. We integrated decades of sightings and survey effort data from multiple sources in a …

Biodiversity offsets aim to counterbalance the residual impacts of development on species
and ecosystems. Guidance documents explicitly recommend that biodiversity offset actions …

Some locations have extraordinary ecological and conservation significance and
subsequently need protection to guarantee the persistence of species that depend on them …

Offshore oil and gas platforms (OGP) have been installed worldwide and initially with limited
consideration given to the nature of their positive or negative long-term interactions with the …

Identifying fish spawning aggregations is crucial to determine effective fisheries
management measures and protect key reproduction sites. We found direct evidence (the …

During spawning activity, fish release large amounts of sperm and eggs into the water,
which has been assumed to cause an increase in environmental DNA (eDNA) levels and …

The vulnerability of a fish stock to becoming overfished is dependent upon biological traits
that influence productivity and external factors that determine susceptibility or exposure to …

There is growing interest in understanding the ecological benefits of oil and gas structures.
This is the first reported case of the spawning aggregation and mating behaviour of bigeye …