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Port of New Orleans Receives Federal Funding for New Mississippi River Container Terminal
By Mike Schuler. The Port of New Orleans (Port NOLA) has been awarded $73.77 million by the federal government to support the construction of a major new container terminal on the Mississippi River. The funding will be provided through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s MEGA Grant Program and will be… SEE MORE
Clearing the Waterways
By Eric Colby. Abandoned vessels threaten navigation and the environment, but removing them can be complicated. Kara Diehl was in the hospital with complications from Type 1 diabetes when her phone rang. The caller was inquiring about her late father’s abandoned boat. “I didn’t know my dad had owned a… SEE MORE
Recipes for the Boat: Halibut Ceviche
By LaDonna Rose Gundersen. Celebrate the holidays with the magic of ceviche – a dish that transforms raw fish into a festive delight! Alaska halibut, my top pick for its wild-caught, sustainable goodness, takes center stage. The sweet and mild flavor dances in a citrus marinade, where the acid performs… SEE MORE
From urchin crushing to lab-grown kelp, efforts to save California’s kelp forests show promise
By apnews.com. CASPAR BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A welding hammer strapped to her wrist, Joy Hollenback slipped on blue fins and swam into the churning, chilly Pacific surf one fall morning to do her part to save Northern California’s vanishing kelp forests. Hollenback floated on the swaying surface to regulate… SEE MORE
Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor
By scientificamerican.com. Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic era and figure out how it moved Despite incredible advances in modern genomic research, science is nowhere near being able to clone long-extinct animals like the fictional ones in Jurassic Park. Even relatively recent… SEE MORE
Oysters: Unsung Climate Heroes for your Holiday Buffet
By Rochelle Baker. There are moments when Steve Pocock questions the wisdom of his chosen profession as a shellfish farmer. Picking oysters off a beach in the dead of night during a low winter tide, then navigating whiteout conditions to get a loaded vessel home to port, while freezing and… SEE MORE
Climate Change is Hurting Coral Worldwide. But these Reefs off the Texas Coast are Thriving
By Jamie Stengle, LM Otero and Kendria Lafleur. OFF THE COAST OF GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — Divers descending into azure waters far off the Texas coast dip below a horizon dotted with oil and gas platforms into an otherworldly landscape of undersea mountains crusted with yellow, orange and pink coral… SEE MORE
Seabirds Can Help Predict the Size of Fish Stocks—If Only We’d Listen
By Abby McBride. The scientists who study terns, puffins, and other fish-eating birds are trying to get fisheries managers to heed their warnings. In 2015, fisheries managers monitoring Atlantic herring in the waters off the United States and Canada made a grave miscalculation. Things were looking good for the multimillion-dollar… SEE MORE
At Sharkathon, Shark Fishers Are a Keen Audience for Conservation Advice
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
Biden-Harris Administration Makes $106 Million Available for Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund as Part of Investing In America Agenda
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
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
Twin Crises Send Cargo Ships Back to 18th Century Trade Routes
By gcaptain.com. A year that started with smooth sailing for the global economy — vanishing supply snarls, slower inflation and fading pandemic gloom — is ending with another gathering storm as the maritime industry and retailers that rely on it confront crises in the world’s two big ocean-to-ocean canals. The… SEE MORE