SeaMonster blog
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Shark fins banned in world’s 2nd largest market — California
Yes, America, the California market for shark-fin soup is the largest outside Asia. Which means that much of the carnage John has documented in previous SeaMonster posts (see here, here, and here) is washing up right here in your backyard. Read it and weep. But the sun also rises. The California legislature passed the shark-fin…
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Flying South for the Winter: I’m Going to Antarctica!
I write to you from a ship in the middle of the ocean, somewhere off the tip of Chile. Later tonight, my boat will be in the Drake Passage: notoriously the roughest seas on Earth. I left my home in North Carolina on Tuesday, and some 30 hours later I was standing on a pier…
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Rough seas for National Ocean Policy
Last summer, to the excitement of ocean policy wonks and yawns by pretty much everyone else, President Obama unveiled a new National Ocean Policy. The basic idea was to cut through the impenetrable tangle of regulations governing marine activities like fishing, shipping, oil drilling, and conservation that have sprouted up willy-nilly in the various agencies…
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Fisherman
I love this list of images of the fisherman that supply the innovative seafood project “Sea to Table” here. We always talk about them but rarely see or meet them.
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How many gray whales were there?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsIhzv8bv_0&feature=fvsr[/youtube]
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Wallace J. Nichols – the loggerhead turtle
Blue Marbles founder and all-round ocean good guy Wallace J. Nichols appears on this month’s Naked Oceans podcast as he faces the question “If you were a marine critter, which would you be, and why?” Here’s what he had to say… [mp3j track=”Critter of the Month on the Naked Oceans podcast@http://nakeddiscovery.com/downloads/split_podcasts/11.09.11/Naked_Oceans_11.09.11_8957.mp3″]
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Hidden cost of shark fin soup
An article from 2006 on the Manta Ecuador shark fishery that puts the Galapagos shark fishing we documented into context (note the fisherman in that case were also from Manta): Hidden Cost of Shark Fin Soup: Its Source May Vanish, By Juan Forero January 5, 2006 MANTA, Ecuador – Early every morning, the cold water lapping…
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Divers want sharks. Guides need them…
A video from StudioUp and SharkAmigos about Angel Quimis, a Dive Master at Wreck Bay Dive Center, on San Cristobal island in the Galapagos. Angel used to be a fishermen, but decided to change professions and become a diver. He makes a really important point about the real economic value of sharks and other critters people go…
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Just because you can’t see it
… doesn’t mean it isn’t there. A Seamonster thumbs up to the striking visuals on this campaign from Advertisers Without Borders.
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Fish – the tool user
Used to be us primates. Then the birds, and now this. Watch your back–the lower vertebrates are getting uppity: The perpetrator was an an orange-dotted tuskfish. The deed was caught on film by Giacomo Bernardi of UC Santa Cruz. From the story at Science Daily: ‘”What the movie shows is very interesting. The animal excavates sand…
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