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July 22, 2009

Sharks may be used as biofuel

Filed under: Sharks & Rays - By. William

Thousands of Greenland sharks get caught and die in nest off Greenland each year, but their meat is toxic to humans and the carcasses are therefore thrown back into the sea.




July 20, 2009

Florida lobster poachers sent to jail; will pay 1.1 million USD to restore marine sanctuary

Filed under: Uncategorized - By. William

A married couple based in Florida Keys have been sentenced to prison for lobster poaching and will have to pay 1.1 million USD to restore the marine sanctuary in which they carried out their illegal activities




Anchor-free zone established to evaluate anchoring impact on British seahorses

Filed under: Uncategorized - By. William

A 100 metre by 100 metre* anchor-free zone will be established in Studland Bay in Dorset bay to protect the largest seahorse breeding colony in the United Kingdom.




July 17, 2009

France joins Monaco in call for international Bluefin tuna trade ban

Filed under: Uncategorized - By. William

Yesterday, French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced that France backs Monaco’s call for an international trade ban for Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna.




Dutch government bans eel fishing three months a year

Filed under: Fishing - By. William

The Netherlands now join Norway in the effort to save the European eel Anguila anguila from extinction.




July 16, 2009

Chevron remedies historic damages by restoring important habitats

Filed under: Environmental - By. William

Significant areas of coastal wetlands have been restored and enhanced in Port Arthur, Texas. The largest restoration took place in the Lower Neches Wildlife Management Area near the Gulf of Mexico where historic water flow has been brought back into roughly 1,300 acres of wetland.




July 15, 2009

Federal law prohibits krill fishing off U.S. west coast

Filed under: Fishing, Law & Law Enforcement - By. William

As of August 12, 2009 the harvesting of krill in the in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington will be prohibited by federal law.




Ocean-going robot will warn us of harmful algal blooms

Filed under: Environmental, New Discoveries - By. William

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) have developed an aquatic robot capable of collecting algal cells from the ocean and extracting the genetic information needed to identify them.




July 14, 2009

Shark Attack 3: Megalodon

Filed under: Law & Law Enforcement, Sharks & Rays - By. William

When the writers of the movie “Shark Attack 3: Megalodon” decided they needed a book on sharks to set the stage for their newest b-flick, they didn’t make up a phoney professor and write the necessary lines on their own. Instead, they used a very real book written by a very real Manhattan based marine conservationists




Shark on the move

Filed under: Aquarium, Sharks & Rays - By. William

Larry, a 3-foot-long Tawny nurse shark (Nebrius ferrugineus) has been moved from his cramped dwellings in a Burbank pet store to the Birch Aquarium, a public aquarium and museum capable of offering him much more spacious accommodations. The Birch Aquarium is a part of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, which in turn is part of the University of California in San Diego.




July 13, 2009

Scientists hope to develop ballast water treatment

Filed under: Environmental, Invasive species - By. William

Ballast water is great for stabilizing a ship in rough waters. Unfortunately, it is equally great at carrying all sorts of aquatic organisms across the world before releasing them into new ecosystems where many of them become problematic invasive species.




Fishermen hired to clean up their pots

Filed under: Environmental, Fishing - By. William

Tens of thousands of crab pots litter the ocean floor, forming lethal obstacle courses of plastic lines and weighed-down metal cylinders. Lost crab pots are responsible for killing a long row of air breathing ocean dwellers, such as whales, sea lions and turtles.




July 11, 2009

How did the turtle get its shell?

Filed under: Uncategorized - By. William

Ever wondered how the turtle got its shell? So has a Japanese team of scientist and they decided to investigate the subject by comparing turtle embryos with those of chicks and mice.




July 10, 2009

Miso soup kelp resists Californian eradication efforts

Filed under: Invasive species, Sea food - By. William

The invasive kelp Undaria pinnatifida is has now spread from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay, despite eradication efforts.




New coral areas found off the coast of Iceland

Filed under: Coral - By. William

New coral reefs and hills have been discovered in Lónsdjúp, off Iceland’s eastern coast.




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