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A metal tray of six shucked oysters on shaved ice with a metal ramekin of sauce and two lemon wedges. Shucked eastern oysters at Row 34 in Boston, Massachusetts. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Brianna Shaughnessy
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A closeup of a small fish with huge eyes Image caption: Close up of a lanternfish. Credit: DEEPEND/Danté Fenolio
Close up photo of a orange-colored snow-Tanner hybrid crab showing its unique trait including a curved mouth. A snow-Tanner hybrid crab collected during the 2026 eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey. Hybrid crab exhibit intermediate morphological traits—such as a curved mouth—relative to snow and Tanner crab parent species. Credit: NOAA Fisheries / Leah Zacher
A large brownish-gray shark on a hook at the surface of the water with a small half-eaten shark on the same hook Documentation of depredation of an Atlantic sharpnose shark by a sandbar shark caught on the same hook during longline sampling. Credit: NOAA Fisheries
Large red crane mounted on a barge dipping a bucket into the open water next to a pile of crushed stone substrate. A crane deposits stone on the bottom of Hooper Strait Oyster Sanctuary to build a new oyster reef. Credit: Molly Feltner/NOAA
A closeup photo of a clump of several oysters being held by a person wearing blue gloves Restored oyster reefs are monitored to ensure the oysters that grow there are thriving. Photo: Oyster Recovery Partnership.

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Nov 2, 2026

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