Colombia Creates New Caribbean Marine Reserve Near San Andrés
Colombia establishes a new Caribbean marine reserve near San Andrés, protecting biodiversity and supporting local communities.
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Shark Conservation (Article courtesy of UMass Amherst)
An international team of researchers studying globally declining shark populations report that they used carbon isotopes as biochemical markers in shark muscle tissue to identify where in the oceans the mobile predators have been feeding, in the hope that such analyses provide a useful tool for conservation.* Michelle Staudinger, an adjunct faculty researcher at the…
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The Sailing Sculptor
Looking at Victor Hempel’s carved creations, it’s difficult to fathom how he knew there was a giant crab lying within a hunk of neem or that a sea turtle lurked inside a piece of star coral. His artistic insight is extraordinary but even more amazing is that he possesses the ability to free those and…
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South Florida News: Marine Industry Day
Marine Industry Day Set for June 18 Educational games, a pirate show, propeller races, water taxi rides and boat displays, plus live music and food trucks, are just a few of the activities scheduled for the Marine Industries Association of South Florida (MIASF)’s third annual Marine Industry Day. Set for June 18 at Fort Esplanade…
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Branson Joins Ocean Voyaging Canoe “Hokulea” in BVI
On March 8, the Hawaiian canoe Hokulea spent its 41st birthday in the British Virgin Islands, just one of many stops in a three-year voyage around the world to create global relationships and raise environmental awareness about the Earth’s oceans. Hokulea is a full-scale replica of a wa‘a kaulua, a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe. Hokulea…
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Sailing With Charlie: Another World
Charlie was scrubbing the bottom of a boat in Trellis Bay (Charlie just hates dirty bottoms) when he looked down and saw what he thought was an anchor, half-buried in the sand in about 15ft of water. He dove down to take a closer look and as he was clearing the sand away a moray…
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Fish & Wildlife Foundation Launches New Program at Miami Show
The Florida peninsula, surrounded by salt seas, ranks number one in the nation for boating based on annual sales, most recently totaled at $1.47 billion, according to the Chicago based National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA). What’s more, an estimated 70 percent of the boaters fish while on the water. It was a natural then that…
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Fisheries Management with Coastal Conservation Association
The Coastal Conservation Association (CCA), based out of Texas, is a national membership-based marine conservation group that stresses science-based fisheries management decisions. Going beyond catch and release, CCA strives for long-term coastal ecosystem health. On November 19-21, 2013 the CCA brought together marine biologists and Association leaders for a summit in Texas to update the…
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Catch-and-Release Makes a Difference to Caribbean Billfish Stocks
Has the advent of catch and release over two decades ago helped to shore up billfish stocks in the Caribbean?
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Showdown for the Bluefin and Endangered Species Status 2010
Status of the endangered species, the Bluefin Tuna.
