Image by Ray Troll The Gulf of Maine cod fishery was deemed to be on its way to recovery in 2008, with a chance of reaching “rebuilt” status by 2014. This was great news for this historically and economically important (and very tasty) fishery. Then, this year, fisheries scientists working on the 2011 stock assessment . . . → Read More: How did Gulf of Maine cod suddenly go from “recovering” to “overfished”?
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By Miriam Goldstein, on  February 15th, 2012  4 comments  Fish, Fishing  cod, fishery, Gulf of Maine, NEFSC, NOAA, stock assessment By RickMac, on January 23rd, 2012 6 comments Bringin' It, Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Fishing, Opinion, Ramblings causality, conservation strategy, Finning, sharks White-tip reef shark, Fiji © 2011 Angelo Villagomez Causal relationships can be fiendishly tricky. Spend an hour watching any of Star Trek Voyager’s time travel episodes and you begin to understand why the show’s writers often resort to lines such as, “It’s better if we don’t talk about this too much.” Consider another example of . . . → Read More: For Want Of A Shark…
By Dr. M, on December 29th, 2011 3 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Fish, Fishing aircraft, Invasive Species, Lionfish, scuba diving, Wreck Diving Randy Jordan, owner of Emerald Charters in Jupiter, Florida, discovered quite a treasure on a recent dive. “We get down to the bottom and I see some fish that are swimming over to the right and I followed them,” said Jordan. “They swam right up to this airplane. It was the most amazing thing.” Right in . . . → Read More: Scuba Diver Discovers Airplane and Haven for Lionfish
… but sometimes you can. The Perennial Plate Episode 62: A day in the Life from Daniel Klein on Vimeo. Via The Atlantic: Diving for sea urchins off the coast of southern California is just another day in the life for the The Perennial Plate, a web series about sustainable food created by Daniel Klein . . . → Read More: A lot of times you don’t win by doing the right thing…
By para_sight, on November 7th, 2011 3 comments Fishing, Mating & Reproduction, Megavertebrate, Weird albino, cyclops shark, Gulf of Californa, Mexico, mutations, shark If you’ve been out of touch for a while lately and haven’t immediately grokked what this post is about from the title, it concerns a surprising recent find by a Mexican fisherman of a very special little shark. Enrique Lucero León was fishing in the Gulf of California and caught himself a pregnant dusky shark. . . . → Read More: Why cyclops shark grabs at our imagination
By RickMac, on October 27th, 2011 4 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Education, Fish, Fishing Coral Reef Alliance, coral reefs, fiji, Shark Sanctuary, sharks “Bula!” (That’s Fijian for “Yo, wassup!“) Following a successful premier this past Monday in the Fiji capital of Suva, I’m proud to bring you the new short documentary, Shark Hope. Produced by the Coral Reef Alliance and The Pew Environment Group’s Global Shark Conservation Campaign, the film is an entirely Fijian effort that details . . . → Read More: Shark Hope
see more There I Fixed It Hat tip to @vonOberst. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}see more There I Fixed It Hat tip to @vonOberst. Broadcast Spawn!Tweet By Dr. M, on October 9th, 2011 Leave a comment Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation & Environment, Fishing A study released Thursday found that the spineless creatures are becoming the dominant predator in areas where fish species are being reduced by overfishing and habitat destruction.Its not just that reduced competition is giving the jellyfish more room. The jellyfish themselves are evolving into bigger specimens by increasing the water content in their gels, the . . . → Read More: Bigger jellyfish inheriting the ocean
By Dr. M, on September 13th, 2011 One comment Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Fishing, Industry & Government conservation, deep sea, Pew The deep sea is home to an estimated 10 million species, most of which have yet to be scientifically-documented. While this marine biodiversity rivals the world’s richest tropical rainforests, these fragile deep-sea habitats, which have taken centuries to grow, are being destroyed by trawlers dragging enormous weighted nets that, in a single pass, scrape . . . → Read More: Deep Trouble for the Deep Sea
By RickMac, on September 9th, 2011 2 comments Biodiversity, Conservation & Environment, Coral, Ecology, Fish, Fishing, Megavertebrate Shark Sanctuary, sharks By now you’ve no doubt noticed that international shark protections (well, at least legislative shark protections) are beginning to pile-up. It can be truly said that the past few months of 2011 will go down as Summer of the Shark. On June 24, Honduras declared their waters as a permanent shark sanctuary. On July . . . → Read More: Fijians Hope Lives in “Shark Hope”
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