Grim Reports From News Today

Bottom trawling involves the use of a fishing net to pull bottom-dwelling fish from the seafloor. Click to read more.

Norway's fish farms are feeding their salmon an increasingly vegetarian diet in order to make their businesses more sustainable, but for these carnivorous pink-fleshed fish, all is not rosy.

Scottish water temperatures have risen since March 2023. Click to read more. Salmon fishing in Scotland is threatened by a Category 4 marine heatwave, which has caused rising sea temperatures that led to mass marine fatalities over the past several months.

Analysis of Riversleigh fossils has revealed fascinating new facts about a tiny possum's ancestors. Scientists have long known that the miniature feather-tailed possums in Australia and the island of New Guinea—members of the marsupial family Acrobatidae—were evolutionary cousins, but where they started their long evolutionary journey has been a bit of a mystery—until now.

The escape of thousands of fish from a farm in Iceland puts at risk the salmon's local population. Read more here.

An angler from the UK was able to reel in a 200-pound monster catfish in a river in Spain. Read more here.