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Bottom trawler, fishing boat sailing along the North Sea coast silhouetted against orange sunset in front of Nieuwpoort, Flanders, Belgium. (Arterra/Philippe Clément/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What exactly is aquaculture?

Frida Garza - Grist

Crew members of purse seiner hauling in net while fishing for salmon (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Untangling catch shares

Ryan Nebeker - FoodPrint

Gray Reef Shark (Getty Images)

Sharks virtually extinct from reefs

FILE - This Nov. 11, 2014 file photo shows a deforested area dotted with blue tarps, marking the area where miners reside, and craters filled with water, caused by illegal gold mining activities, in La Pampa, in Peru's Madre de Dios region. Peru's government declared an emergency across a broad jungle region because of mercury contamination, much of it caused by wildcat gold mining. Photographer Rodrigo Abd of The Associated Press and three other journalists in Brazil, Colombia and El Salvador won the 2016 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, which recognizes excellence in coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File) (AP)

Tax havens skirt conservation efforts

Cassie Freund - Massive Science

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In this Aug. 23, 2016 photo provided by OCEARCH, a juvenile male great white shark named Paumanok swims away after researchers tagged and sampled him off the point of Montauk, N.Y. (AP)

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Protecting the things we love

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How science reinvented meat

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U.S. takes on seafood fraud

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Wildlife's shocking decline

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Sylvia Earle sits on a tiny one-person submersible called the Deep Worker. (Kip Evans)

Changing the nature of nature

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Gillian Anderson poses topless with a conger eel (Denis Rouvre/Fishlove)

Nude celebrities, dead fish

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The fish we don't eat

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The brink of collapse

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European Seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) (Al Pidgen/Shutterstock)

Sardine fishermen (Reuters/Nacho Doce)

Sustainable fish is a fantasy

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