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Cut of Atlantic Salmon on a Plate

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Love Salmon? Listen Up.

A beach clean-up in Malaysia brings young people together to care for their coastline.

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How You Can Help the Ocean

An opah at the Honolulu Fish Auction with a printed label attached that includes an ID number, bar code, the date, the receiver's ID number, the cart number, species name, vessel name, and weight of the fish.

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“Storied Fish”: Why Sustainable Seafood Requires A Tale

A variety of organisms make their home on this tropical coral reef in Indonesia.

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Coral Reefs Need You

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Pile of Plastic Trash

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Plastic Trash Plagues the Ocean

yarn artwork of coral

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Webcast: Stories from the Reef

Students share a microscope to get a closer look at plankton samples from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.

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A Current Event in the Classroom: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Plastic bottles and other marine debris cover a rocky beach in Curacao.

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Ocean Trash: Marine Debris From Shore to Sea

A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.

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What We’re Reading 10/6

Screenshot from video of someone demonstrating light painting.

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Light Painting Tutorial

Screenshot of "Rethink the Shark" showing people on a beach.

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Rethink the Shark

A diver collects water samples.

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Ocean Sampling Day – Taking the Pulse of the World’s Oceans

students giving a speech

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2011 Student Summit on the Ocean & Coasts Webcast, Part 2

Participants in the challenge must first set a compass bearing in the direction they are headed to properly navigate underwater.

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SCUBAnauts Splitting The Sign

Sea bass flock to a tropical coral reef in the Red Sea.

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5 Simple Things You Can Do for the Ocean

Satellite view of Earth.

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Earth Day, Spawned from the Sea