July 8, 2021
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A vast seabird colony on Ascension Island creates a "halo" in which fewer fish live, new research shows. Ascension, a UK Overseas Territory, is home to tens of thousands of seabirds...whose prey includes flying fish...The findings—which provide rare evidence for a long-standing theory first proposed at Ascension—show how food-limited seabird populations naturally are, and why they are often so sensitive to competition with human fishers.
