Fun little fact I learned today. Bats can swim. Behold the majesticness. Hat tip to Lauren Coons on Twitter. Newsflash: 🦇Bats can swim 🦇And are…
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Tag: fishing
And now for the all robot performance of “To Catch a Fish”
Give a robot a fish, you will feed it for a day. Teach a robot to fish, you will feed it for a lifetime. At…
View More And now for the all robot performance of “To Catch a Fish”It’s Time to Throw in the Trawl
Les Watling is a professor at the University of Hawaii who is simultaneously one of the leading experts on two very different types of organisms–deep-sea…
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Rockfish Recompression. (because sometimes gas just happens)
Question: What’s better than famed ichthyologist Milton Love masquerading as a hand puppet in a rockfish rap video? Answer: Not much. Barotrauma can be a…
View More Rockfish Recompression. (because sometimes gas just happens)The Mortal Sea
The Mortal Sea, by University of New Hampshire maritime environmental history professor Jeff Bolster, seems to be an interesting book up many of our readers’…
View More The Mortal Sea“Small Victories Win Big Wars”
The post title was exclaimed by French oceanographer Philippe Cury upon hearing the news that a tiny non-profit organization won a major battle with a…
View More “Small Victories Win Big Wars”Hot air and #epicFAILs for Ocean Conservation
The present dialogue on marine conservation is failing our oceans. It isn’t just a science/public communication fail – missteps are happening in a variety of…
View More Hot air and #epicFAILs for Ocean Conservation“Product of Thailand” Could Be Result of Slave Labor
Two weeks ago I wrote about southeast Asian fishermen, mostly from Cambodia, being forced to work Thai and South Korean fishing vessels. Men are promised…
View More “Product of Thailand” Could Be Result of Slave LaborSweeping Fishermen’s Human Rights Under the Rug
While some think that being a marine scientist is somehow more elitist than being a fisherman, they can’t be further from the truth. As a…
View More Sweeping Fishermen’s Human Rights Under the RugDoes Weeping Help? Recent Conservation News
Recently, news streams, scientific journals, and the web are exploding with conservation news. Below is few highlights from the past few weeks. I’ll take my…
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