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Full Tanks and Empty Reefs - Honolulu Magazine - September 2006 - Hawaii
He drives them like cattle along a fenceline of billowing, fine-mesh net—butterflyfish, damsels, yellow tangs. Slowly pumping his fins through the current, fisherman Neil Dart glides over the reef, pushing the small school into a corner of ...
PHOTO IN THE NEWS: Flat-Faced Crawling Fish Discovered
After countless centuries, this odd anglerfish (right) may finally be ready for its close-up. Discovered in Indonesia in January, the species has forward-looking eyes like a human and crawls rather than swims. These and other traits suggest...
Reef development independent of coral diversity | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
The development of coral reefs is independent of coral species diversity, scientists from UK and USA have found. In a study published in a recent issue of the journal Science, Kenneth Johnson, Jeremy Jackson and Ann Budd compared changes in c...
Reef specialists decline when corals suffer | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
Scientists have confirmed that reef specialists suffer more when corals decline by studying damselfishes (pomacentrids) in the Great Barrier Reef.The study by Shaun Wilson, Scott Burgess, Alistair Cheal, Mike Emslie, Rebecca Fisher, Ian Mille...
Giant marine life found in Antarctica - Yahoo! News
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish...
Rabbit Fish To The Rescue Of The Reef
ScienceDaily (Mar. 21, 2008) — While rabbits continue to ravage Australia’s native landscapes, rabbit fish may help save large areas of the Great Barrier Reef from destruction. The reason, say scientists, is the same in both cases – bot...
Woman killed when ray leaps onto boat | NEWS.com.au
AN eagle ray has leapt onto a boat off the Florida Keys and stabbed a woman with its barb, knocking her to the deck and killing her. "It's a bizarre accident," said Jorge Pino, an agent with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commissi...
MontereyHerald.com : - Monterey Bay Aquarium's great white shark goes back to the ocean
Monterey Bay Aquarium has released its third great white shark into the wild. The juvenile male shark was released at dawn Tuesday from a boat in Monterey Bay after being fitted with two electronic tags, said aquarium spokeswoman Angela Hain...
Monitoring Reefs
The head of a working group that is studying ways on the restoration of impacted coral reefs and how to come up with cost effective measures has just completed a five-day monitoring assignment here in Palau, where one of the two sites of an e...
$150 Yellow Tangs a possibility
Check out this bill being proposed in Hawaii. Report Title: Fishing; Ornamental Fish; Bag Limits; No Take Category; Appropriation Description: Imposes bag limits on certain ornamental fish; prohibits catching of certain ornamental fish; approp...
Sharks, 550 Fish Leave Casino For Aquarium - Connecticut News Story - WFSB Hartford
UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- The Mystic Aquarium has taken in 550 fish, including three blacktip sharks, after a fish tank sprung a leak at the Mohegan Sun gift shop. Divers caught the three sharks on Wednesday so they could be taken to their new ho...
Underwater robots help scientists study reefs
3:10 p.m., Jan. 25, 2008--The Caribbean island of Bonaire arguably has some of the most unspoiled coral reefs in the world. A multinational team of researchers, including two UD scientists and 16 undergrads, is taking a collaborative, high-te...
World's Largest Shark Species at Risk, Expert Says
This is the fifth story in a continuing series on the Megafishes Project. Join National Geographic News on the trail with project leader Zeb Hogan as he tracks down the world's largest fishes. From a spotter airplane buzzing off the coast of ...
Study shows reef fish colour vision | Practical Fishkeeping magazine
A study published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology has shown that coral reef fish are capable of colour vision. Ulrike Siebeck, Guy Wallis and Lenore Litherland trained groups of freshly-caught (held for only 3â...
UnderwaterTimes | New Tool Developed To Study Drifting Larvae And Juvenile Marine Species
Miami, Florida (Jan 19, 2008 14:37 EST) One of the most significant questions facing marine ecologists today, is just how much of an impact global variations in the environment are having on the dispersal of larval and juvenile marine species...
Ocean Parks Help Corals Rebound: Scientific American
Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park in the Bahamas has existed since 1959 and been protected from fishing since 1986—but it took until now to prove that such fisheries management could actually help corals rebound. One of the Caribbean's largest ...
Strange Fish Caught In Fla. Identified - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando
Editors Note: Don't release your freshwater or saltwater fish and animals in your area! DUNNELLON, Fla. -- Kristine Sweet thought she had caught an oversized piranha in the Withlacoochee River because of the large teeth the fish had in its mouth. W...
Wildlife Extra - New Species of Moray Eel discovered in the Red Sea
This species was discovered by Shai Einbinder during a fish course that was taking place at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences of Eilat (IUI). The specimen was fished from 200m depth near the edge of the deep coral reef. It was...
Practical Fishkeeping magazine | Blog: Sealed condom aquarium causes stir
Practical Fishkeeping Forum regular Bennystalebread (not his real name) pointed out a shocking video today which shows how you can make an ecosphere-like aquarium from a condom. The video below, which Bennystalebread found on Metacafe, shows ...
How baby fish find a home
One of the most significant questions facing marine ecologists today, is just how much of an impact global variations in the environment are having on the dispersal of larval and juvenile marine species from open oceans to coral reefs. Previou...
AFP: Human settlements main culprits for decline in coral reefs: study
ARIS (AFP) — The world's coral reefs are in alarming decline, but what -- or who -- is most to blame? A groundbreaking study published Wednesday singles out human settlement, especially coastal development and agriculture, as the main culpr...
Close encounters with the ray's mighty barb - 09 Jan 2008 - NZ Herald: Accidents News from New Zealand and around the World
Max Wakefield had not seen a stingray since one pierced his belly in March, but was adamant he felt no fear. In fact, the 47-year-old father of three was more concerned with the cold than the potentially deadly rays when the Herald enticed hi...
