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How Feather Extensions Are Changing the Way Chickens Live (and Die)

Whether it’s Steven Tyler, Miley Cyrus, or sorority girls all across the country, demand for long "saddle feathers" is way, way up.

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Uncovering Fictitious and Fraudulent Fish with the Barcodes of Life

Could the DNA barcodes used to expose widespread fish fraud also become a shopper's best friend?

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Superb Idea: Pay Fishermen to Catch Trash

A pilot project will begin this month which will pay fishermen to ease up on taxed European fish stocks and catch plastic trash instead.

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Wait, a Fishing Hook That Sets Tuna Free?

These new "weak hooks" bend enough to give a greater percentage of the Gulf's bluefin tuna a fighting chance when they're caught accidentally.

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A World Without Fish, and What You (and Your Kids) Can Do to Change That Good Books to Read: Mark Kurlansky's World Without Fish

Mark Kurlansky's newest book, the illustrated World Without Fish, is a grim primer on the destruction of the ocean ecosystem.

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Feast Your Eyes: Shark Fin Fishing in Japan

The brutal Japanese shark fin trade is exposed in this new video—and a San Francisco-based reporter taste tests the resulting soup.

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Feast Your Eyes: The Shocking Shark Fin Trade

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay goes on the hunt for illegal shark fin traders in Costa Rica.

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Overfishing Is Over

One former fisheries scientist says that for the first time in a century, U.S. commercial fishing fleets aren't overfishing.

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Have We Reached Peak Tuna?

Savor that tuna roll, it might be your last. Barry Foy, author of the fictional culinary reference manual, The Devil's Food...

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Urban Aquaculture

Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare,...