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Close-up, high angle shot of a mottled grey seal, looking up at the camera with wide dark eyes and an open mouth, showing a pink tongue and tiny teeth. “Pearl” the gray seal pup in rehabilitation at the Mystic Aquarium Animal Rescue Clinic, after stranding in Charlestown, Rhode Island, in January 2025. Credit: Mystic Aquarium.
A school of silvery Pacific bluefin tuna swim underwater, lit from above. New allocations determined at a recent international meeting will increase harvest opportunities for Pacific bluefin tuna off the West Coast. Credit: Adobe Stock.
Two scientists wearing foul weather gear sort palm-sized sea scallops into baskets and count the total number of baskets. Caption: A large catch of young Atlantic sea scallops collected during the 2025 survey is sorted into baskets and counted aboard the F/V Selje. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Dana Morton
Five researchers in waterproof gear stand on a ship deck around a large bin filled with sampled fish, one waving. Acting Alaska Fisheries Science Center Director Dr. Jamal Moss (center, waving) from the deck of a chartered fishing vessel engaged in a pelagic fish survey in the eastern Bering Sea. The sorting table contains numerous juvenile walleye pollock, which were sampled for energetic condition, size, and abundance. Credit: NOAA Fisheries
A sea surface height anomaly map displaying elevated sea levels (dark red) moving along the Equatorial Pacific, Central America, and the U.S. West Coast as coastally trapped Kelvin waves, alongside active ocean eddy signatures in the Gulf of Mexico. Coastally trapped Kelvin waves, one of the first indications of El Niño, are traveling north along the West Coast, as shown in a map of sea surface height anomalies. Darker reds show sea levels higher than normal, while darker blues show heights below normal. Credit: Dillon Amaya/North Carolina State University.
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Kelvin Waves, Explained

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A table with a variety of fish and shellfish dishes Fish and shellfish dishes. Credit: iStock