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• Letter: Saving the Bluefin Tuna

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  To the Editor:.
  10 hours ago

• Spotting talent

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  After years of campaigning, and much debate in parliament, we now have a Marine and Coastal Access Act . This is a truly momentous event for our marine life. As the new age of marine conservation dawns, we are still discovering new marine species. Last month divers discovered two types of sponge never before found ...
  13 hours ago

• Poor Little Crab

  
  Tony Wu's Underwater Photography Blog — Authority: 419
  Yesterday…female hairy frogfish eating male hairy frogfish. Today…octopus in a shell capturing and eating a crab. The crab was alive and struggling, but soon after I took this photo, the octopus wrapped its mantle over the crab and devoured the crunchy treat.
  1 day ago

• Saving The Whales Will Help Preserve Human Life

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 538
  Many species of whale are under threat of extinction but the changes needed to ensure their survival are the same as the ones needed to ensure the continued survival of the planet as a whole. All mammals breathe air into their lungs and whales are no exception. These aquatic mammals are descendants of mammals that ...
  1 day ago

• Sponges Recycle Carbon to Give Life to Coral Reefs

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 733
  Its hard to think of a sponge as an animal, especially if you have a dried up non-synthetic one in your bathtub. Living sponges dont have circulatory, digestive or nervous systems, and they can often regenerate themselves from small fragments. ...
  1 day ago

• A Valuable Lesson

  
  Tony Wu's Underwater Photography Blog — Authority: 419
  I suppose this comes as no surprise, but my first day of diving in Lembeh was terrific. Nudibranchs, octopuses, frogfish, Rhinopias …a nice sampling of the fascinating critters that have made this area world-renowned. Among the encounters I had today, one in particular stands out. This is picture of a female ...
  2 days ago

• "Green Caviar" to Enter Fish Market

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 733
  Have you ever eaten "Green Caviar?" (Image: ayustety) Its a remarkable seaweed, sometimes also called "sea grapes," "ocean grapes," or "Umibido" (in Japan), which has the texture of caviar and even looks like caviar, as evidenced here. OK, so the ...
  2 days ago

• Bryde’s Whale

  
  Tony Wu's Underwater Photography Blog — Authority: 419
  I’ve just arrived at Kasawari Lembeh Resort , and I’m getting ready to get some sleep to rest up for a full day of diving tomorrow (hurray!). Before I hit the sack, I thought I’d post one final set of images from Ogasawara…a couple of photographs of Bryde’s whales. Our final day in Ogasawara was a ...
  3 days ago

• Loch Striven ship dump: rolling story

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 443
  Update 18.00 12th November: Maersk Maryland and Maersk Maine are now both in port in Algeciras in the south of Spain. Both are showing Greenock as their next destination, with an ETA of midday on 16th November for Maine and 6.00pm on the same day for Maryland. This supports the information given by Stew in [...]
  3 days ago

• Not So Pelican Brief

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 116
  Great news to report today. The brown pelican has been officially declared recovered and removed from the Endangered Species list! If you live along the California Coast, you will know this to be true. Large squadrons of the amazing, yet...
  3 days ago

• In praise of … The Cove

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  The eco-documentary has become such a popular genre that it has spawned an industry of critics. They accuse it of being facile, propaganda or simply of making things up. Some of these criticisms are being levelled at The Cove . Each year fisherman drive dolphins into a Japanese cove where dolphin trainers the world ...
  4 days ago

• Worlds First video of a giant Stingray

  
  nevertheless — Authority: 127
  Here is one of the rarest giants of the ocean, that has been caught on film for the first time. An underwater BBC camera crew filming recorded of a smalleye stingray swimming off the coast of Mozambique. The smalleye stingray is the largest of all 70 species of stingray, attaining widths of more than 2m. The ...
  4 days ago

• In pictures: Wildlife Trusts welcome marine protection law

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  The Wildlife Trusts are celebrating exciting new finds around Britain as the Marine and Coastal Access Act, comes into force this week which will give Britains marine life even greater protection
  5 days ago

• National Briefing | Environment: Harmful Levels of Mercury Are Found

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  About half of American lakes and reservoirs contain fish with potentially harmful levels of the toxic metal mercury, a federal study said.
  5 days ago

• State panel recommends Laguna fishing closure

  
  Green OC — Authority: 517
  A state task force recommended a ban on fishing along six miles of Laguna Beach coastline Tuesday, along with a variety of other fishing restrictions up and down the Southern California coast. The 9 1/2-square-mile, triangle-shaped closure area was one of several that the blue-ribbon panel picked after more ...
  5 days ago

• Pushing, shoving erupt at meeting on fishing restrictions

  
  Green OC — Authority: 517
  Emotions ran so high at a meeting in Los Angeles to decide possible restrictions on coastal fishing that one man in the audience began yelling in a threatening manner, then got into a shoving match with another man before being escorted from the room by officials with the state Department of Fish and Game. The man ...
  5 days ago

• Expect fog during early morning commute

  
  Sciencedude — Authority: 127
  Archive photo of fog rolling ashore in Dana Point. Photo by Marvin Smith The winds have picked up and are pushing cool, moist area ashore, creating patchy coastal fog that’s expected to last into early Tuesday morning, when many people are beginning their commute to work, says the National Weather Service. The fog ...
  6 days ago

• Seven-arm Octopus

  
  Tony Wu's Underwater Photography Blog — Authority: 419
  This is what’s left of a seven-arm octopus ( Haliphron atlanticus ) . We came across a couple of these while in Ogasawara. Seven-arm octopuses are the largest known octopus species, allegedly growing up to something like four metres in length and weighing 75kg! The ones we saw were from significantly smaller ...
  6 days ago

• Close Laguna coast to fishing? Big decision expected Tuesday

  
  Green OC — Authority: 517
  A major decision on new protections for ocean life that could include banning fishing off Laguna Beach is expected Tuesday in Los Angeles. A blue-ribbon task force that is part of the state-sponsored Marine Life Protection Act Initiative will resume its discussion of possible new protected areas off Southern ...
  6 days ago

• Learning How Animals Regenerate Body Parts

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Salk Institute scientists found that dual-purpose switches controlled many of the genes activated in the regenerating cells of a zebra fish’s tail.
  6 days ago

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