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Experts: Deep Sea Fishing Impacts Greater Than Thought; 'Deep-water Fisheries Are Unsustainable'
Glasgow, Scotland - Mar 12, 2009 14:59 EST
Scientists have long known that commercial fishing affects deep-water fish numbers, but its effects appear to be felt twice as deep as previously thought. Dr David Bailey of the University of Glasgow, who led the study - published in the journal...
 
SeamountsOnline Portal Launches As One Stop-shop For Seamount Managers And Researchers
San Diego, California - Mar 12, 2009 14:30 EST
A free online portal is providing deep-sea researchers and managers with new tools for finding and accessing information on the biological communities that live on seamounts (undersea mountains), facilitating improved management of seamount resources, and conservation of seamount habitat. Since...
 
NOAA Public Service Announcement: 'Don't Feed Wild Dolphins'
Washington, D.C. - Mar 11, 2009 22:21 EST
“Just stop feeding me!” says an animated dolphin in a new public service announcement released today that highlights the dangers of dolphins getting hooked on human handouts. The PSA was produced by a coalition of government agencies and private organizations. The...
 
New Tracking Tags Are Providing Fish-eye Views Of Ways To Manage Depressed Fisheries
Ithaca, New York - Mar 11, 2009 22:00 EST
New tracking and observing technologies are giving marine conservationists a fish-eye view of conditions, from overfishing to climate change, that are contributing to declining fish populations, according to a new study. Until recently, scientists provided fishery managers only such limited data...
 
Study: Septic Tanks Affect Coastal Water Quality; 'It Is What We Expected'
Palo Alto, California - Mar 11, 2009 21:29 EST
California Sea Grant researchers have strong evidence that septic tanks in Northern California are leaking nitrogen and phosphate into coastal waters that can trigger algal blooms. Reporting in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, they report finding elevated levels of these “nutrients”...
 
Sedation Used For First Time To Free Entangled Right Whale; 'New Tool In The Large Whale Disentanglement Toolbox'
Woods Hole, Massachusetts - Mar 11, 2009 13:51 EST
On Friday, March 6, 2009, for the first time ever, a North Atlantic right whale that had been severely entangled in fishing gear, was administered a sedation mixture that made it possible for rescuers to remove 90 percent of the...
 
Study: Coral Reefs May Start Dissolving When Atmospheric CO2 Doubles; 'Simple Chemistry Taught To Freshman'
Standford, California - Mar 9, 2009 17:59 EST
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the resulting effects on ocean water are making it increasingly difficult for coral reefs to grow, say scientists. A study to be published online March 13, 2009 in Geophysical Research Letters by researchers...
 
Lobster Traps Going High Tech; eMOLT Sensor 'provides A Lot Of Data At A Reasonable Cost'
Washington, D.C. - Mar 9, 2009 17:55 EST
New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help improve ocean circulation models in the Gulf of Maine. Environmental Monitors on Lobster Traps, or eMOLT,...
 
No Mercy: Florida Fishers Face $10,000 Fine Over Undersized Swordfish; 'We Hope This Case Serves As Deterrence'
Tallahassee, Florida - Mar 7, 2009 09:21 EST
That’s some expensive fish. Taking three undersized swordfish may end up costing four Broward County men $10,000. NOAA issued a “notice of violation and assessment” to the owner, permit holder, boat operator and fisherman of the fishing vessel “No Mercy.” The...
 
Research: See-through Fish Fed Junk Food Diet Develops Early Symptoms Of Heart Disease
San Diego, California - Mar 6, 2009 18:01 EST
We usually think of fish as a "heart-healthy" food. Now fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart attacks. Scientists at the University of California,...
 
New Antarctic Fish Discovered In The Bellingshausen Sea; 'Completely' Unknown
Barcelona, Spain - Mar 5, 2009 15:05 EST
The new species of Antarctic fish, Gosztonyia antarctica, has been discovered at a depth of 650 metres in the Bellingshausen Sea in the Antarctic Ocean, an area which has not been studied since 1904 and where the fauna is 'completely'...
 
New Deep-Sea Bamboo Coral Discovered On NOAA-Supported Mission; 'Live, 4,000-year-old Corals'
Washington, D.C. - Mar 5, 2009 14:29 EST
Scientists identified seven new species of bamboo coral discovered on a NOAA-funded mission in the deep waters of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Six of these species may represent entirely new genera, a remarkable feat given the broad classification a...
 
Three Louisiana Fishers Face Fines, Jail For Having 85 Sharks On Their Boat
Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Mar 4, 2009 12:42 EST
Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents cited three Louisiana men for allegedly possessing over the limit of shark on Feb. 19. Agents stopped a commercial fishing vessel for license compliance during a National Marine Fisheries Service joint enforcement...
 
Research: Algae 'Soap' Stripped Birds Of Waterproofing; 'Combination Of Red Tide, Birds, And Big Storm Waves'
Santa Cruz, California - Mar 3, 2009 16:44 EST
In late 2007, hundreds of dead and stranded seabirds washed up on the shores of Monterey Bay, their feathers saturated with water and coated with an unknown substance. After an intensive investigation, scientists determined that a massive "red tide" bloom...
 
NOAA Lists Shipwreck Joffre On National Register Of Historic Places; Landed Over 15 Million Pounds Of Fish
Washington, D.C. - Mar 3, 2009 16:31 EST
The wreck of an early 20th century fishing vessel that represents technological changes in New England’s fishing industry has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the nation’s official list of cultural resources worthy of preservation. The 105-foot...
 
Oldest Fossil Brain Found In Kansas And Imaged In France; 'It Is Really Bizarre'
Paris, France - Mar 2, 2009 20:46 EST
When Alan Pradel of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris CAT scanned a 300-million-year-old fossilized iniopterygian from Kansas, he and his colleagues saw a symmetrical blob nestled within the braincase. This turned out to be the oldest brain found...
 
Silent Diving Systems Recalls Uncrimped Scuba Diving Hoses Over Drowning Hazard
Washington, D.C. - Feb 27, 2009 18:24 EST
Silent Diving Systems is recalling about 820 scuba diving hoses because of a drowning hazard. The diving hoses may have been made without crimps, which can allow gas to leak or water to enter into the re-breather unit of the scuba...
 
Study: Commercial Ships Spew Half As Much Particulate Pollution As World's Cars; 'A Significant Health Concern'
Boulder, Colorado - Feb 27, 2009 17:27 EST
Commercial ships emit almost half as much particulate pollutants into the air globally as the total amount released by the world's cars, according to a new study led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the University of Colorado...
 
Kiwi Study: Scat And Regurgitate Reveal Seals Eating Fish With Little Or No Commercial Value
Wellington, New Zealand - Feb 26, 2009 14:07 EST
Every so often departmental staff are asked the question: ‘Are seals to blame for reduced fish catch?’ A recent study, undertaken by the Department of Conservation (DOC) has looked at the diet of New Zealand fur seals/kekeno around Banks Peninsula,...
 
Researchers Expose Sherlock Holmes Of The Marine World; 'Physiological Basis For Color Vision'
Brisbane, Australia - Feb 25, 2009 21:27 EST
Scientists from The University of Queensland have revealed a coral reef fish has been successfully living incognito by using its colour-changing ability. Lead author of the study Dr Karen Cheney, from UQ's School of Biological Sciences, said the blue-striped fangblenny...
 
Fossilized Fish Shows Sex Began 380 Million Years Ago; 'Concrete Evidence For Vivparity'
London, England - Feb 25, 2009 20:49 EST
A 380-million-year-old fossil fish that shows an unborn embryo and umbilical cord has been discovered, scientists report in the journal Nature. The extremely rare specimen shows incredible detail. The umbilical cord is attached to an area of small bones, corresponding to...
 
Research: Oceanic Seesaw Links Northern And Southern Hemisphere During Abrupt Climate Change
Cardiff, Wales - Feb 25, 2009 18:44 EST
Very large and abrupt changes in temperature recorded over Greenland and across the North Atlantic during the last Ice Age were actually global in extent, according to an international team of researchers led by Cardiff University. New research, published in the...
 
Great Lake's Sinkholes Host Exotic Ecosystems; 'Materials From 400 Million Years Ago'
Washington, D.C. - Feb 24, 2009 22:18 EST
Researchers are exploring extreme conditions for life in a place not known for extremes. As little as 20 meters (66 feet) below the surface of Lake Huron, the third largest of North America's Great Lakes, peculiar geological formations—sinkholes made by water...
 
Psychedelica: DNA Evidence Is In, Newly Discovered Species Of Fish Named
Seattle, Washington - Feb 24, 2009 22:06 EST
"Psychedelica" seems the perfect name for a species of fish that is a wild swirl of tan and peach zebra stripes and behaves in ways contrary to its brethren. So says University of Washington's Ted Pietsch, who is the first...
 
Researchers Studying Spiny Dogfish, Gulf Of Maine's Mini Shark; 'We Need To Understand Their Basic Life History'
Durham, New Hampshire - Feb 24, 2009 21:41 EST
For such a small shark species, there seems to be super-sized confusion about its population status. But for researchers at the University of New Hampshire, one thing is clear — definite changes have occurred to spiny dogfish shark populations in...
 
Barreleye: Researchers Solve Mystery Of Deep-sea Fish With Tubular Eyes And Transparent Head
Monterey, California - Feb 23, 2009 18:22 EST
Researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute recently solved the half-century-old mystery of a fish with tubular eyes and a transparent head. Ever since the "barreleye" fish Macropinna microstoma was first described in 1939, marine biologists have known that...
 
Beginning Of The End As Vandenberg Undergoes Final Cleanup, Inspections Before Trip To Key West
Key West, Florida - Feb 23, 2009 18:08 EST
After an almost nine-month stall, a Key West artificial reef project is back on course. The 524-foot Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg is undergoing final cleanup and inspections, so it can be towed to Key West for a planned scuttling in the...
 
Florida Biologists Use Magnets To Keep Nuisance Crocodiles Away, Break The 'homing' Cycle
Miami, Florida - Feb 23, 2009 17:59 EST
Magnets usually attract, but the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) want magnets to do just the opposite. FWC biologists are studying if magnets can keep state-endangered American crocodiles from returning to situations where they are not welcome,...
 
WWF: Philippines Fishers Face Collapse And Food Security Threat From Live Fish Trade; 'Highly Overfished'
Palawan, The Philippines - Feb 23, 2009 17:51 EST
The livelihoods of more than a hundred thousand people in the Philippines are under threat with the trade in live reef fish destined for the seafood restaurants of Hong Kong and mainland China facing imminent collapse. A summit on sustainable...
 
Japanese Corals Change Sexes On The Sea Floor; 'Males Are Less Expensive To Maintain'
Tel Aviv, Israel - Feb 20, 2009 18:18 EST
Trees do it. Bees do it. Even environmentally stressed fish do it. But Prof. Yossi Loya from Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology is the first in the world to discover that Japanese sea corals engage in "sex switching" too. His...
 
World's First Electronic Water Monitoring Network Begins Tests In Florida's Indian River Lagoon
Fort Pierce, Florida - Feb 20, 2009 18:14 EST
The world's first network of ORCA's Kilroy water monitoring systems, the newest conservation tool being developed by the Ocean Research & Conservation Association (ORCA) to provide more accurate water quality data than conventional sampling methods, will begin initial monitoring tests...
 
Scientists Find Black Gold Amidst Overlooked Data; Oil Seeping From Seafloor Found With 'Sun Glints'
Greenbelt, Maryland - Feb 20, 2009 18:09 EST
About half of the oil in the ocean bubbles up naturally from the seafloor, with Earth giving it up freely like it was of no value. Likewise, NASA satellites collect thousands of images and 1.5 terrabytes of data every year,...
 
Lake Michigan Fish Populations Threatened By Thriving Junk Food Mussel, Decline Of Nutritious Tiny Shrimp
Washington, D.C. - Feb 19, 2009 16:03 EST
The quick decline of a tiny shrimp-like species, known scientifically as Diporeia, is related to the aggressive population growth of non-native quagga mussels in the Great Lakes, say NOAA scientists. As invasive mussel numbers increase, food sources for Diporeia and...
 
Shark Bite Recession: Economy Implicated As 2008 Shark Attack Numbers Slump To Five-year Low; Long-Term Rise Expected
Gainsville, Florida - Feb 19, 2009 14:09 EST
The recession may be responsible for a slump of a different sort: an unexpected dive in shark attacks, says a University of Florida researcher. Shark attacks worldwide in 2008 dipped to their lowest level in five years, a sign that...
 
Curious Gold 'Flowerette' Artifact Discovered On Santa Margarita Shipwreck
Key West, Florida - Feb 18, 2009 21:24 EST
The crew of Keith Webb’s Blue Water Ventures Key West, joint-venture partners of Mel Fishers Treasures, have discovered the first gold treasure of the 2009 search and recovery season, a gold “flowerette” of jewelry, and an intriguing square of decorative...
 
Link Determined Between Unexploded Munitions In Oceans And Cancer-causing Toxins
Athens, Georgia - Feb 18, 2009 21:10 EST
During a research trip to Puerto Rico, ecologist James Porter took samples from underwater nuclear bomb target USS Killen, expecting to find evidence of radioactive matter – instead he found a link to cancer. Data revealed that the closer corals...
 
Bigger, Better 'Super Abs' Raised On Macroalgae; 'Diet Drives The Way Animals Taste And The Way They Look'
San Diego, California - Feb 18, 2009 20:59 EST
If you are looking for ways to improve farmed red abalone growth rates, their shell color, or even taste, you may want to consider supplementing the animals’ diet with some red algae. Mike Graham, a seaweed ecologist at Moss Landing Marine...
 
NASA Unveils 'One-stop' Hurricane Web Page; 'Hurricanes Can Be Scary'
Greenbelt, Maryland - Feb 17, 2009 20:55 EST
Hurricanes and tropical cyclones develop in various places around the world all year 'round, and NASA's Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone Web page covers them. The web page offers daily storm updates and satellite images, latest research, stunning video animations, educational tools, scientist...
 
Study: Historical Photographs Expose Decline In Florida's 'Trophy' Fish; 'Large Fish More Abundant In The Past'
San Diego, California - Feb 17, 2009 20:49 EST
A unique study by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has provided fresh evidence of fishing's impact on marine ecosystems. Scripps Oceanography graduate student researcher Loren McClenachan accessed archival photographs spanning more than five decades...
 
Marine Scientists To Assess Environment Before Offshore Drilling Begins In 'Sensitive' U.S. Arctic Waters
Austin, Texas - Feb 17, 2009 20:29 EST
Through a $2.9 million, three-year grant from the Minerals Management Service (MMS), a team led by University of Texas at Austin marine scientists will assess the biological and chemical conditions on the seabed of the Chukchi Sea before the area...
 


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