{"id":5765,"date":"2025-01-10T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/florida\/updates\/fish-are-disappearing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:13:35","slug":"fish-are-disappearing","status":"publish","type":"update","link":"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/florida\/updates\/fish-are-disappearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish are disappearing"},"featured_media":56387,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":""},"campaign_tax":[149],"display_option":[],"issue_tax":[],"region_tax":[],"state":[2],"topic_tax":[144],"class_list":["post-5765","update","type-update","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"helper_taxonomies":{"topics":[144],"collection":false,"press_type":false,"person_type":false,"resource_type":false,"event_type":false,"campaigns":149,"department":false,"level":false,"states":[2],"act_option":false,"display_option":false,"primary":{"topic":144}},"featured_image":56387,"caption_override":"","excerpt":"Researchers report bad news for anglers and for nature. A quarter of fish and other freshwater species are swimming toward extinction. ","hide_hero_image":false},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":[{"type":"dynamic","dynamic_person":{"site":2,"people":"1027"},"information":{"name":"","image":null,"role":"","biography":"","contact":{"twitter":"","facebook":"","email":"","phone":""}}}]},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"New research published in <em>Nature<\/em> finds that a quarter of animals living in lakes, ponds, bogs, rivers, streams and other freshwaters face the threat of extinction. The researchers looked at more than 23,496 species of fish, crustaceans, dragonflies and damselflies.\r\n\r\nThis alarming trend of declining fish populations bodes poorly for the fishermen and women who love nothing more than spending a relaxing few hours baiting, casting and waiting -- followed on most occasions by catching and later eating fish.\r\n\r\nPreviously we've <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentamerica.org\/updates\/a-massive-decline-in-migratory-fish-populations\/\">written about a huge decline<\/a> in migratory fish.\r\n\r\nWhat's causing this alarming problem? In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08375-z#\">study<\/a>, researchers list these threats:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>54% of threatened species are affected by <strong>pollution<\/strong>,<\/li>\r\n \t<li>39% by <strong>dams<\/strong> and water extraction,<\/li>\r\n \t<li>37% by <strong>land-use change,\u00a0<\/strong>and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>28% by <strong>invasive species<\/strong> and disease.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nMost threatened species (84%) are affected by more than one threat.\r\n\r\nCatherine Sayer, one of the researchers, points out that freshwater habitats are home to 10% of the Earth's animal species despite making up less than 1 percent of its surface.\r\n\r\nIn other words, even those who aren't hooked on fishing should find this research concerning.","":null}}],"featured_content":[4735]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.8 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fish are disappearing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Researchers report bad news for anglers and for nature. 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