The catch of the day brings up a squirming pandemonium of creatures from the deep: sea bream and red snapper, miniature lobsters, an electric ray packing 150 volts, a baby octopus watching with one ...

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Laboratory tests following a mass die-off of fish in the Oder River detected high levels of salinity but no mercury poisoning its waters, Poland’s environment minister said Saturday as the mystery ...

Fish is a healthy diet, it supplies important omega-3 fatty acids and trace elements like iodine and selenium. However, eating fish caught in certain regions can sometimes also have its risks. In ...

PARIS (AP) – France and the European Union are investigating why a massive swarm of dead fish was released by a huge trawler in the Atlantic Ocean off France, after an environmental group released ...

LUX, France (AP) — Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River ...

While cave-dwelling fish might be somewhat of a regularity in certain parts of the world, you used to be able to count Europe out of that equation. Cave fish were unheard of in the region and it was ...

The water separating Iceland from the rest of Europe has been choppy these past few years. After Iceland’s banks collapsed in 2008, the British government used anti-terrorism laws to force Reykjavik ...

The great cormorant bird is eating too much fish for the liking of a group of EU nations that on Tuesday called for a cull. "Cormorants have as much right to eat fish as we do." ...

The substance ciguatoxin is only found in fish from tropical and subtropical seas. For some years now, cases of ciguatera have been reported with increasing frequency in Europe, in particular on the ...