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Colorful fish swim in blue water.

an adult and baby coelacanth specimens on display

Meet the Coelacanth

Learn about the fish that was once thought to be extinct.

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A Honduran small-scale fisherman on a boat setting out to fish.

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Clever Measures Track Fishing Pressures

A blue parrotfish hides among coral.

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Tough Teeth and Parrotfish Poop

On coral reefs fish are important links in the food chain that sustains higher-order predators (including humans) and keeps everything in balance.

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Fish Get Risky Around Oil

A tornado of sardines swirls around diver and photographer Erwin Poliakoff in the Philippines.

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Why the Littlest Fish Matter a Whole Lot

A school of akule (Hawaiian for bigeye scad) explode into a camera's frame.

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Following the Akule

Are You An Educator?

At Smithsonian Ocean, we have lesson plans, activities, and resources to help you engage your students in the wonders of our oceans.

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A school of Atlantic bluefin tuna swimming.

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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna: One Species at a Time

This shrimp is colored to fit in - probably why they are common members of the seaweed community.

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A World Adrift: Life in the Sargassum Slideshow

Photograph of the underside of a gelatinous octopus with a bright yellow bioluminescent ring around her mouth.

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Bioluminescent Animals Photo Gallery

Seafood vendor at historic Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington (USA). The market draws both shoppers and gawkers who come to watch the gregarious crew of fishmongers.

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World Fisheries from Sea to Table

an elephant seal with a tracker

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Citizens of the High Seas

Three fishermen sit on wooden stilts that are sticking out of the ocean as they fish.

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Fishing for Food Security: Small-Scale Fisheries Are Key

A glowing ocean surface.

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Six Ways to See Ocean Ocean Bioluminescence

Cut of Atlantic Salmon on a Plate

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Love Salmon? Listen Up.

a blue larval fish with fanning spines

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Blackwater Divers Illuminate Sea Life at Night

This queen parrotfish scrapes algae from Caribbean reefs with its parrot-like beak.

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From Despair to Repair: Protecting Parrotfish Can Help Bring Back Caribbean Coral Reefs

a graphic depicting the various species of tuna

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The Big Tunas

Colorful fish swimming in a coral tank.

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Wrasse and Anthias Fish Cam

	
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