Category: Ocean Awareness

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At Sharkathon, Shark Fishers Are a Keen Audience for Conservation Advice

12/24/2023 - By Claudia Geib. Catch-and-release fishing can kill sharks. But fishers will work to limit the damage—once they know how.Every fall, more than 900 recreational anglers in Texas gather their gear and wade into the blood-warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico for Sharkathon. In this four-day catch-and-release shark fishing tournament,… SEE MORE

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Biden-Harris Administration Makes $106 Million Available for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund as Part of Investing In America Agenda

12/23/2023 - By ecomagazine.com. The Department of Commerce and NOAA are announcing the availability of up to $106 million in funding through the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) for Pacific salmon and steelhead recovery and conservation projects. This funding—which includes funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and Inflation Reduction Act… SEE MORE

Fun Crossword Puzzle that Explores Kelp Forests

12/22/2023 - Atlas Obscura and the Monterey Bay Aquarium worked together with crossword genius Brendan Emmett Quigley to create a fun diversion: this interactive puzzle that explores the aquarium’s Kelp Forest exhibit. The puzzle is available to download here as a .pdf (link below), but you can also do interactively online here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/monterey-bay-aquarium-crossword-kelp-forest. The links in… SEE MORE

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The ‘Christmas Tree Boat’ Shipwreck That Devastated 1912 Chicagoans

12/18/2023 - By climatecentral.org. Marine archaeologists are beginning to understand what really happened to Captain Santa’s ill-fated ship. THE storm sweeping down from the north had ships running for cover throughout Lake Michigan—among them, a three-masted schooner, the Rouse Simmons, filled with thousands of evergreens. Having harvested its load from the coniferous forests of Michigan’s… SEE MORE

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Cuttlefish and Their Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoats

12/14/2023 - By Olivia Ferrari. A person might wear their heart on their sleeve, but cuttlefish seem to wear their thoughts right on their skin. Horst Obenhaus, a neuroscientist working with the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, is studying how these unusual creatures communicate with color. In particular, he and… SEE MORE

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Persistent Pollutants from Mother’s Milk Turn Dolphin Calves More Toxic Than Mom

12/12/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. May raise concerns for killer whales that are closely related. When bottlenose dolphins nurse their young, they transfer toxic pollutants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and DDT to their calves through their milk. New research shows that the calves end up with higher concentrations of the toxins than their mothers.… SEE MORE

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Navy to build $146.7 million NOAA marine operations center in Rhode Island

12/11/2023 - By nationalfisherman.com. The U.S. Navy awarded a $146.7 million contract to New York-based Skanska USA to design and build a new National Oceanic and Atmospheric base on Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island, with plans for the facility to eventually be homeport for NOAA’s Marine Operations Center – Atlantic. Design… SEE MORE

NOAA Fisheries’ white abalone recovery team–which includes partner organizations–had been planning this research trip for years. They were overjoyed at the discovery of a juvenile white abalone. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Rare Juvenile White Abalone Spotted Off California Raises Hope for Endangered Shellfish

11/30/2023 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. During a recent research cruise off the southern coast of California, NOAA Fisheries divers and partners found a juvenile white abalone. It’s one of only three live juveniles observed in natural subtidal reefs along the California coast during the past 20 years. They once numbered in the millions, but… SEE MORE

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This Billion-Dollar Plan to Save Salmon Depends on a Giant Fish Vacuum

11/27/2023 - By propublica.org. Many endorse opening dams and letting fish coast the natural current as the best way to avoid extinction. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has other ideas. To free salmon stuck behind dams in Oregon’s Willamette River Valley, here’s what the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has in… SEE MORE

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Bull Kelp

11/20/2023 - By bullkelp.info. Redwoods of the Ocean Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) is the majestic kelp that grows up to sixty feet in one season, to reproduce and be washed away by winter storms each year. It is the signature species making up the vastly productive kelp forests of the Northern Pacific coastline from… SEE MORE

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