http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news The latest news from below the surface Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:22:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After being exhibited for two months at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a young female white shark was released back into the ocean Wednesday this week. “I’ve always said that these animals will tell us when it’s time to put them back to the ocean. Now was clearly the time,” said ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/471 Europe's first artificial surf reef was officially launched this Monday. Around a dozen surfers and body boarders headed for the waves as soon as the Bournemouth Borough Council declared the reef open. As reported earlier, the artificial reef – which is located in Boscom on UK’s South Coast ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/470 Last month, 82 Green sea turtles hatched at SeaWorld in San Diego, California. The eggs hatched on Shipwreck Beach and the youngsters didn’t need any human aid to get out of their shells and into the water. The park had decided to let nature take its course by refraining from incubating ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/469 A new method for distinguishing between tuna species has been presented in a paper co-authored by Dr Jordi Viñas, a fish genetics specialist at Girona University in Spain and Dr Sergi Tudela, Head of Fisheries of WWF Mediterranean. The new method is based on gene sequencing and the researchers ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/468 The Monterey Bay Aquarium has launched a national campaign asking top U.S. chefs and culinary decision makers to take a “Save Our Seafood” pledge not to serve items listed in the “avoid” section of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch List. Seafood Watch is one of the best known ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/467 The amazing eyes found on the mantis shrimp may inspire a new generation of CD:s and DVD:s, according to a new study from the University of Bristol. Odontodactylus scyllarus, a species of mantis shrimp living on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, has the most complex vision system known to ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/466 The fossilised skull of a gigantic predator has been found off the English Channel coast of southern England. The skull is 2.4 meters long and scientists believe it once belonged to a 16 meter long pliosaur which probably weighed an impressive 12 tons. The pliosaurs were a type ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/465 The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) has announced their plans to create a cryobank for corals. Corals will be collected from tropical areas and placed in liquid nitrogen at the Whipsnade zoo in Bedfordshire. “Carbon dioxide emissions are rising fast and are already above the safe level for corals,” ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/464 An algae bloom stretching from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state to the northern parts of Oregon has killed thousands of seabirds by stripping them of the natural oils that keep them waterproof. Without these oils, seabirds quickly get wet and succumb to hypothermia. "This is huge," says Professor ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/463 The Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) has officially announced that they are deploying five warships and one reconnaissance plane to protect the Natuna waters from illegal fishing and poaching. "The five warships and reconnaissance plane have conducted routine patrols in the Natuna waters as part of efforts to reduce the ... http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/news/lib/462