Kelsey James/NOAA Fisheries Gary Longo was looking for what he thought would be small genetic differences across a single species of small, ocean-dwelling fish: Pacific sardine. But as he examined ...
Sardines collected during NOAA Fisheries 2023 Coastal Pelagic Species Survey. Genomic analysis later revealed that the catch contained both Pacific and Japanese sardine. The two species look so ...
The researchers say analyses of sardines collected from 2013 to 2021 off the US West Coast found no sign of Japanese sardines, suggesting that their cross-ocean travel is a more recent development.
Gary Longo was looking for what he thought would be small genetic differences across a single species of ocean-dwelling fish: Pacific sardine. But as he examined the early data, he suddenly got a ...
Besides the Pacific sardines common on the West Coast, many of the fish appeared to be another species. “It was a total shock,” he said. Then he compared their genetic code to other known species.
Another thing they have in common is that the majority of sardines and anchovies that we eat come in tin cans. This often confuses people, and they immediately assume it's a variation of the same ...