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• White Shark Tagging: controversial technique flounders in the Farallons

  
  RTSea Blog: keeping an eye on Nature — Authority: 465
  Controversy is now dogging the white shark tagging efforts of Dr. Michael Domeier of the Marine Conservation Science Institute . The SPOT (smart positioning or temperature) tagging began in Isla Guadalupe under the eyes of a film crew for a National Geographic Channel program to air on the 19th. It involves a ...
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• Seafood Choices Alliance – Seafood Summit 2010

  
  MarineBio Blog — Authority: 108
  Seafood Summit 2010 – Challenging Assumptions in a Changing World31 January – 2 February 2010Paris, FranceSeafood Summit brings together global representatives from the seafood industry and conservation community for in-depth discussions, presentations and networking with the goal of making the seafood marketplace ...
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• Blue Carbon – The Role of Healthy Oceans in Binding Carbon

  
  MarineBio Blog — Authority: 108
  Oceans play a significant role in the global carbon cycle. Not only do they represent the largest long-term sink for carbon but they also store and redistribute CO2. Some 93% of the earth’s CO2 (40 Tt) is stored and cycled through the oceans.The ocean’s vegetated habitats, in particular mangroves, salt marshes and ...
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• Saving Seahorses, Conserving Corals

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 110
  Good news today for ocean wildlife, here at home in the United States and overseas in Cambodia. In the U.S., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a new pilot program -- backed up with money -- to protect coral reefs in...
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• Governments, public failing to save worlds species

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  According to the International Union for the Conservation of Natures (IUCN) 2008 report, released yesterday, 36 percent of the total species evaluated by the organization are threatened with extinction. If one adds the species classified as Near Threatened, the percentage jumps to 44 percent—nearly half.
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• Californias great white sharks are a distinct population

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Researchers have long thought that white sharks Carcharodon carcharias migrated across oceans, but a new study in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows that the population in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, along California, hasnt mixed with other white sharks for tens of thousands of years.
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• Bite-Back calender

  
  HUCK magazine — Authority: 444
  Shark and marine conservation group Bite-Back have launched their 2010 calender to help save the ocean. Bite-Back have joined forces with marine photographers including Jeff Rotman , Doug Perrine and the fantastically-named Dr Alex Mustard to celebrate the beauty of the ocean. The calender ...
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• Fun new items in the MarineBio Gear Shop

  
  MarineBio Blog — Authority: 108
  Like everyone else, we’re trying to find ways to stay afloat in this crazy economy. To help support MarineBio and to be the envy of all of your friends – check out the new items in the MarineBio gear shop: http://www.zazzle.com/marinebioYou’ll find everything from apparel, our new 2010 calendar, stickers and ...
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• Oceana.org: new web site keeps score of accomplishments

  
  RTSea Blog: keeping an eye on Nature — Authority: 465
  There are many conservation organizations vying for our attention and support. I subscribe to several to get the latest updates on what is happening in the world of conservation. Typically each organization has a particular strategy that best maximizes their available resources: some focus on legal action, others go ...
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• Atlantic bluefin tuna should be banned internationally: ICCAT scientists

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Scientists with the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) have said in a new report that a global ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna fishing is justified. ICCAT meets in November to decide if they will follow their scientists recommendations.
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• The Art Of Breathing

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Devon Tighe is a two-week volunteer, assisting with GVI’s marine conservation research. She hails from New York City where she does strategic research at the New York Times.   Back home in New York City I practice yoga. Now, let’s be honest: When most people think of yoga they think of a flaky, tree-hugging, ...
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• The Art Of Breathing

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 419
  Devon Tighe is a two-week volunteer, assisting with GVI’s marine conservation research. She hails from New York City where she does strategic research at the New York Times.   Back home in New York City I practice yoga. Now, let’s be honest: When most people think of yoga they think of a flaky, tree-hugging, ...
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• Biologist Saves Thousands Of Sea Turtles Over 20 Years

  
  MarineBio Blog — Authority: 108
  Todd Steiner of Sea Turtle Restoration Project Has Ended Sea Turtle Slaughter, Closed Deadly Fisheries and Protected Nesting Beaches During Two Decades of Global Grassroots Organizing20th Anniversary – Big Splash – Nov. 14 – Berkeley, CABiologist and ocean activist Todd Steiner of Sea Turtle Restoration Project ...
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• Aquarium re-vamp for Bristol Zoo Gardens

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  Staff at Bristol Zoo Gardens have just finished the whale-sized task of revamping the Zoo’s aquarium. The make-over aims to alert visitors to the link between sustainable seafood choices and marine conservation, and to promote greater awareness among Zoo visitors of the sustainability challenges facing the ...
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• Europe’s first multi-purpose artificial reef

  
  MarineBio Blog — Authority: 108
  PRESS RELEASE: ASR, LTD. ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF EUROPE’S FIRST MULTI-PURPOSE REEFThe New Reef is the First in the Northern Hemisphere to Revitalize a Seaside Community, Provide Coastal Protection and Foster Marine HabitatVenice Beach, Calif. and Raglan, New Zealand – October 21, 2009 – Amalgamate Solutions and ...
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• Blink 10-22

  
  Spoutingoff's Blog — Authority: 112
  Chadwick students spoke at MPA hearing but didnt get satisfaction of a vote Thursday night Most of the signs Thursday pointed towards a state panel adopting a protective Marine Protected Area (MPA) network for Southern California. A strong op-ed piece supporting Map 3 was penned by her deepness herself — Sylvia ...
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• Killer jellyfish spotted off Mull

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Mauve Stringers, a species of jellyfish that killed thousands of farm salmon off Northern Ireland’s Antrim Coast in 2007 has been spotted swarming off Argyll’s Isle of Mull and the Isles of Skye and Fair Isle, out in the Atlantic off Scotland’s north coast.The Marine Conservation Society has reported the swarms ...
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• To save species conservationists must focus on conserving at least 5,000 individuals

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  The tiger has an estimated population of 3,400-5,000 individuals; the giant panda, 1,000-2,000; the Sumatran rhino, 250; the North Atlantic right whale, 200-250; and the California condor, 170. A new study shows that none of these species is safe from extinction yet, although each has received considerable ...
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• Whales, Dolphins And Tourists: The Tensions

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 419
  The start of GVI’s marine research this October was certainly an incredible one. As part of the daily dolphin survey we were heading through Funzi Bay towards the Wasini Channel when Nick (our conservation intern/staff) excitedly drew our attention to a potential sighting. To our amazement it was a humpback whale ...
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• Obama Administration Opens Gulf To Industrial Fish Farms

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  ivanwalshs photostream (creative commons) The Obama administration may have fumbled their short, but mostly positive environmental track record last week, when they allowed for the opening of the Gulf of Mexico to unregulated, industrial-scale, open-water fish farms . The unfortunate approval may have occurred ...
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