By BETTINA WASSENER. The New York Times A few years ago, something surprising began turning up in Asia’s fish markets: the gill rakers of manta and mobula rays. Manta Ray of HopeManta and mobula ray gills at a market. Shawn Heinrichs and Paul Hilton, photographers who have been monitoring the international soaring trade in shark […]
by Underwatertimes.com News Service – December 14, 2011 12:49 EST COLLEGE STATION, Texas — There’s an unseen foreign invasion going on in the Gulf of Mexico. Its stealth and speed is matched only in the uncertainty it has created among scientists and the people who make their livings from the Gulf’s waters. Lionfish and black […]
Coral Reef Fact: Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) can live up to 40 years, but the normal life span is estimated at between 20 and 30 years. Help protect our marine world today donate at https://www.reefrelief.org/act/donate Fact source: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/invertebrates/queenconch.htm
By David Fleshler. Sunsentinel.com 2:40 p.m. EST, November 30, 2011 Could one of these species be the next lionfish? Three non-native tropical fish have reappeared off the southeast Florida coast, years after they had last been seen, according to a news release from the U.S. Geological Survey. A yellow tang, a native of the northwest […]
Posted: 14 Nov 2011 04:57 PM PST Reef Relief is the proud new owner of an HP color printer thanks to the generosity of Coldwell Banker Schmidt Real Estate in Marathon. The company discovered that Reef Relief needed the printer on KeysReuse.com, which lists the needs of 26 non-profits. Pictured with the printer and supplies […]
Jeremy Hance. mongabay.com . November 03, 2011 Researchers with the Smithsonian have catalogued almost as many crab species on tropical coral reef bits measuring just 20.6 square feet (6.3 square meters) as in all of Europe’s seas, finds a new paper in PLoS ONE. The team used DNA barcoding to quickly identify a total of […]
By David Fleshler. Sun Sentinel. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 They are whimsical symbols of the beach, appearing on key chains, murals, logos and postcards. They form inseparable, monogamous couples. And they are hauled from the sea in nets, ground into powder for traditional Chinese medicine and dried for sale in souvenir shops. The world’s four dozen or so […]
By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News The Marshall Islands government has created the world’s largest shark sanctuary, covering nearly two million sq km (750,000 sq miles) of ocean. The Pacific republic will ban trade in shark products and commercial shark fishing throughout its waters. Tourism, including diving, is a staple of the Marshall Islands […]
by Underwatertimes.com News Service – September 22, 2011 16:32 EST NEW YORK, New York — Leaders from eight countries launched an initiative today to prevent the extinction of sharks, symbolizing the latest development in the growing movement to safeguard the ocean’s top predator. Members of the coalition committed to a declaration supporting the development of […]
by Underwatertimes.com News Service – September 14, 2011 21:43 EST DURHAM, North Carolina — The number of sea turtles accidentally caught and killed in fishing gear in United States coastal waters has declined by an estimated 90 percent since 1990, according to a new study by researchers at Duke University Project GloBAL and Conservation International. […]