Category: Coastal News

Suzuki Marine USA’s 800-Mile Sustainable Fuel Journey to Promote Eco-Friendly Boating

4/18/2023 - Tampa, FLA. — Suzuki Marine USA will embark on an important journey beginning Tuesday, April 18, setting out from Jacksonville, Florida on a nearly 800-mile journey by water to Washington D.C., where the 259 Sea Pro center console will be highlighted in an on-the-water display during the 2023 American Boating… SEE MORE

Fishing in South Padre Island, Texas

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4/17/2023 - By Adam Young, Our US Harbors Fishing Expert South Padre Island, located on the Gulf of Mexico in south Texas, is a paradise for fishing enthusiasts. With its warm climate, sandy beaches, and clear waters, it offers abundant opportunities to catch a variety of fish inshore and offshore. Especially during… SEE MORE

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Interior Disburses Over $353 Million to Gulf States to Support Coastal Restoration and Conservation

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4/16/2023 - By ecomagazine.com. The Department of the Interior announced the distribution of over $353 million in fiscal year 2022 energy revenues to the four offshore Gulf oil and gas producing states—Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, and their coastal political subdivisions (CPS), such as counties and parishes. The funds, disbursed annually based… SEE MORE

Most of World’s Salt Marshes likely to be Underwater by 2100, Study concludes

4/15/2023 - By Emily Greenhalgh. WOODS HOLE, MASS. -- Cape Cod’s salt marshes are as iconic as they are important. These beautiful, low-lying wetlands are some of the most biologically productive ecosystems on Earth. They play an outsized role in nitrogen cycling, act as carbon sinks, protect coastal development from storm surge,… SEE MORE

Inbreeding Contributes to Decline of Endangered Killer Whales

4/10/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. New genome sequencing shows Southern Residents are highly inbred. The small size and isolation of the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales in the Pacific Northwest have led to high levels of inbreeding. This inbreeding has contributed to their decline, which has continued as surrounding killer whale populations… SEE MORE

Is It a Seal or a Sea Lion?

4/6/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. Seals and sea lions are both pinnipeds, but there are distinct characteristics to tell them apart. Seals and sea lions, along with walruses, belong to a group of marine mammals called “pinnipeds.” Pinniped means fin or flipper-footed in Latin. These animals spend the majority of their time in… SEE MORE

Novel Coastal Wave Overtopping System Developed to Improve Coastal Hazard Forecasts

4/5/2023 - By ecomagazine.com. The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has developed WireWall, which is the first system that can measure the speed and volume of overtopping water on a wave-by-wave basis in the field. The ability to measure overtopping will ultimately reduce uncertainty in overtopping forecasts and improve hazard warning systems. Previous… SEE MORE

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Suzuki Marina and Buccaneers Complete Beach Cleanup in Tampa

Suzuki Marine & Buccaneers Remove 210 Pounds of Trash From Tampa Beach

4/3/2023 - Tampa, FLA. — The partnership between Suzuki Marine USA and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers achieved an important new milestone yesterday, as Suzuki leadership, staff, and company volunteers teamed up with key representatives of the Buccaneers organization and regional non-profit Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful to remove trash from the beaches along… SEE MORE

University of Miami Researchers Submerge Hybrid Reef Structures Off Miami Beach

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4/3/2023 - By ecomagazine.com. A team of marine scientists and engineers from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, and the College of Engineering, in collaboration with the City of Miami Beach, deployed two innovative artificial reef structures off Miami Beach on Wednesday, March 1, 2023, to… SEE MORE

This Arctic Ichthyosaur Should Not Exist

4/2/2023 - By atlasobscura.com. A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction. Australian-born Benjamin Kear is a hunter of the High Arctic. With colleague and friend Jørn Hurum, he chose a quarry, and set off across the treeless expanse of Norway’s Spitsbergen, part of the… SEE MORE