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  • Japanese seafood’s fine-unless you eat it

    A series of news outlets are reporting that sampled fish near the crippled Fukushima reactor are showing high levels of radioactivity, which isn’t too surprising since workers at the plant dump over 1000 tons of contaminated water into the ocean Monday night. Excellent. The findings are stoking fears in seafood markets and restaurants around the…

  • Leatherback Sea Turtle Nests Increasing in Florida

    Interesting finding by Larry Crowder, one of the world’s leading sea turtle population biologists. His work was key in the imposition of Turtle Exclusion Devices into shrimp nets. The authors postulate that the increase was due in part to climate change (=more food) and overfishing of sharks (=fewer predators). With climate change there will be lots…

  • Climate Change Will Lead to the Extinction of Coral Reef Fish

    One of the many factors causing the global loss of reef building corals is anthropogenic climate change, which is slowly warming the world’s oceans. When summertime temperatures are warmer than usual, corals can die from “bleaching” and disease outbreaks. This in turn is devastating for the countless organisms that inhabit coral reefs. A new paper…

  • Coconut-carrying octopus

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DoWdHOtlrk&feature[/youtube]

  • Tiger Sharks vs Turtles

    This is great footage of my crazy colleague Mike Heithaus working in Shark Bay, West Australia. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_D51Ui_XMI&feature=relmfu[/youtube]

  • Kitesurf Dub

    From Ian Alldredge / TDZ [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/17927046[/vimeo]

  • Diving deep into coral science

    The Raleigh News & Observer has a nice piece about Karl Castillo, a post doc at UNC working with Justin Ries and myself.  Karl is a native of Belize and was the author of a paper I blogged about last week here. – JB Karl Castillo was in his early 20s when he sat with…

  • An antidote to gloom ‘n’ doom: Ocean chill

    The Blue Planet set to music. Lean back . . . [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jema_dTA8wM[/youtube]

  • Have we reached “peak fish”?

    During the 20th century fishing became a heavy industry, expanding rapidly to the global scale, and fishing pressure now appears to be near—if not beyond—the ocean’s capacity to provide. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently reported that “the maximum wild capture fisheries potential from the world’s oceans has probably been…

  • Ian Alldredge signs with Ben Wilson surf

    World class kitesurfer Ian Alldredge – known as “freckles” to my daughters – has left Naish and signed with his pal Ben Wilson at BWS. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/20478411[/vimeo]

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