Author: John Bruno
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Texas shark kill
Yet another illegal shark fishing operation has been caught, this time off Texas. And I heard from a colleague, there was another one caught in the Galapagos. Listen to the story about the texas kill and the 3,000 sharks found dead in the nets here on NPR. HT to Josh Idjadi.
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NYT covers recent shark legislation and SeaMonster!
The NYT ran two articles – here and here – recently about shark fishing and pending legislation to reduce it. I was interviewed for the article exerpted below by Elisabeth Rosenthal because of all the coverage we have had about illegal shark fishing on SeaMonster, eg, here and here. The last 12 months have seen a…
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Acid test – the other carbon problem
A well done movie about ocean acidification – the other carbon problem. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cqCvcX7buo&[/youtube]
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2011 Arctic ice minimum
Another great – if gloomy – movie from Peter Sinclair, this one about arctic ice loss. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRc_9nNTZg0&[/youtube] Also see this from NASA: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzKgLVidLG4&[/youtube]
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Those damned jellyfish!
A jellyfish sting has ended Diana Nyad’s final attempt to swim from Cuba to Miami. I can’t believe her run of bad luck. I still remember her first try. From the AP: Her face and lips swollen from Portuguese man o’war stings, marathon swimmer Diana Nyad tried to remain positive about all she had accomplished in two…
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This is kitesurfing
Ian Alldredge and crew in Mexico on a small day. From The Dredge Zone. Ian keeps getting better. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/28464795[/vimeo]
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Cat got your fish?
A great op-ed by Paul Greenberg (of Four Fish fame) in the NYT (hat tip to my UNC colleague, tuna goddess Dr. Elizabeth Havice). I suspect many people will be surprised to learn the true fate of so many of the wild fish we catch. I just lectured about this in my Marine Ecology course, and made…
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Sharks in the Bahamas
From Nat Geo’s Photo of the Day series by Wilfried Niedermayr. The Bahamas wisely banned shark fishing earlier this year.
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Studying in the Galapagos
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/28165343[/vimeo]
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Jellyfish invasion!
Well not really. This is just a cool jellyfish I got some video of in Cuba. It looked like a spaceship dropping in on the reef for a look around. There were some tiny fish living on top of it – see if you can see them near the end of the video. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29257089[/vimeo]