The topics include civil engineering, insect genetics, invasion biology, fish population dynamics, and toxic chemical exposures, among others.
That helps assure a good mix of genetics and a robust fish population.
Peter Kerr, director of the trust, said he had "high hopes" it will help the fish population in the county.
Also, "the estuaries here are a nursery ground, literally a nursery ground, for the entire fish population in this area, " Bossart said.
The fish count mobilizes and trains volunteer divers to identify and document fish diversity and population trends.
What is surprising is that this is the first report of this from a wild population of fish.
Prof Thompson said the plastics had been found "in relatively low quantities - one or two pieces per fish - so this is certainly not a risk from the point of view of the human population, people eating those fish, because of course we don't eat the guts normally".
But dams, diversions and recent drought have combined to push the spawning salmon population in the Klamath well below the 35, 000-fish threshold deemed necessary for the river to maintain a sustainable salmon population.
How is the salmon population doing now that the fish is listed on every menu in the country?
They don't breed, and no fish are added back to the wild population.
But the population plunged in the smallest fish species, the fathead minnow.
The FAO says that, taking into consideration population growth, we will need an additional 37 million tons of fish a year to feed us all by 2030.
Conservation efforts have led to an increase in the manatee population, the commission said, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working on a rule that would reclassify the manatee from endangered to threatened.
The decision by US Fish and Wildlife Service comes after a 20-year programme to grow the wolf population.
The Midwestern wolf population has reached the recovery goals set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1978.
Their conclusion is that, on current trends, the population in the north-east Atlantic and Mediterranean will collapse because young fish are being caught before they have the chance to breed.
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Florida has a population that appears to be breeding, but only in Hawaii, where the fish is isolated on the island of Oahu, does it truly thrive, and there it's aggressively fished.
The oceans can't keep up with demand for fish, which has been climbing 3.6% a year (twice the growth in population) since the 1960s.
Fish is a vital source of protein and is about to become ever more important as the world's population increases to 9 billion by 2050, said the World Bank's vice president of sustainable development, Rachel Kyte.
The Utah prairie dog population numbers only about 40, 000, far lower than historic levels, says Laura Romin, a Fish and Wildlife official in Salt Lake City.
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