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Quicksilver Pro France 2012
Day 1 Highlights [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31TLv4mppXg&[/youtube] Day 5 Highlights [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijyvfVMPmtk&[/youtube] UPDATE: Kelly Slater wins the 2012 Quicksilver Pro France! At 40! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaHtmTdHpkg&[/youtube]
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The State of the World’s Unassessed Fisheries
To assess the state of the World’s fisheries is not an easy task but to evaluate those fisheries that lack formal assessment is a major endeavor. A new study published online in Science evaluates the status and solutions for the World’s unasssessed fisheries. These fisheries represent over 80% of the global catch. The results… well…
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Saving the world’s fisheries
A new editorial from the WaPost: THE WORLD’S WATERS are dangerously overfished, threatening the health and livelihood of millions across the planet. A new study from consulting firm California Environmental Associates, part of which appeared in the journal Science last week, estimates that “over 40 percent of fisheries have crashed or are overfished, producing economic losses…
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Opinons on the GBR coralapocalypse
There is no shortage of opinions about what the GBR coral loss reported Monday (De’ath et al 2012 in PNAS) means and what we should do about it. Below is a guest post by William Precht. Bill is based in south Florida and recently left the NOAA program to go back to consulting, primarily on coral…
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Nancy Knowlton discusses GBR decline on the PBS News Hour
[youtube]http://youtu.be/M7b6gRUi820[/youtube]
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Exploring Bloody Bay wall
A winner from the Blue Oceans Film Festival. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRjUt4AH7Lk&[/youtube] Compass Light Productions- David Conover, Mish Morgenstern, Peter Neill Exec Prod. A neuroscientist, marine geologist, and an underwater photographer each pursue their own questions at Bloody Bay Wall on Little Cayman Island. We see how the diversity of reef life provides practical solutions to diverse human…
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The GBR is losing coral even faster than assumed
Elizabeth Selig and I took a lot of heat when we published a paper in 2007 (Bruno and Selig at PLoS One) in which we found the state of western Pacific reefs in general and the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) in particular was much worse than assumed: The results of our analysis of 6001 quantitative…
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Scents and sensibility
From the Economist. Courtney Endres is a PhD student at Carolina in the Lohmann lab. JELLYFISH may not be most people’s idea of a tasty snack, but if you are a loggerhead turtle, they are top of the menu. Though jellyfish can swim, they are not exactly the greyhounds of the ocean, so they are easily…
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Traceability of the seafood supply chain
This is a repost of two articles by Mark Gibson from Breaching the Blue: FishWise’s Mariah Boyle just put out an excellent white paper on seafood traceability efforts by nonprofits, governments, and companies. It is comprehensive and concisely written. I highly recommend it for those marine policy wonks out there. The report can be found here. A few excerpts to…
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The coral jungle – from The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau
One thing that inspired me to become a coral reef biologist is this episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuUNVISSpKA&[/youtube] This episode first aired in the spring of 1968 when I was only 3, so I must have seen a rerun. Like practically every marine scientist of my generation, waiting for “The Undersea…