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Lobster gauge increase delayed a second time

8/15/2024 - By Carli Stewart. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) just voted to delay the planned gauge change to increase the minimum allowable catch size in Lobster Management Area 1 until July 1, 2025. The Commission also approved Addendum 30, which clarifies that lobsters imported from Canada under the U.S.… SEE MORE

he first Your Shores cohort learning to scuba dive. Credit: Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science

NOAA-Funded Program Helps Miami Teens from Under-Resourced Schools Enter Marine Science Field

8/11/2024 - By fisheries.noaa.gov. The Your Shores program at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science provides high school students from diverse backgrounds with dive certifications, habitat restoration and research experience, and marine science training. To address the inequity of opportunities for students of all backgrounds in the marine science field and… SEE MORE

A skewed approach to props: Schaffran Propeller

8/5/2024 - By Paul Molyneaux. For the average trawler or scalloper, putting a nozzle around the propeller has been standard operating procedure for decades. According to Jan Hass, propeller designer at Schaffran Propeller in Lübeck, Germany, it makes sense. “The nozzle itself, working with the propeller, will produce thrust at lower speeds,”… SEE MORE

Autonomous ‘Bugs’ Can Skim Ocean Bacteria to Collect Data

8/1/2024 - By oceannews.com. Futurists predict that more than one trillion autonomous nodes will be integrated into all human activities by 2035 as part of the “Internet of Things.” Soon, pretty much any object—big or small—will feed information to a central database without the need for human involvement. Making this idea tricky… SEE MORE

Jeff Wasil of the NMMA and Gus Blakely of Suzuki Marine USA. (Image Credit: Suzuki Marine)

Suzuki Marine Trailblazes Viable Path for Sustainable Marine Fuels in Florida

7/9/2024 - By Suzuki Marine. Effort Exemplifies “Kizuna” Commitment to Panama City Community and State. Panama City, FLA — Suzuki Marine USA has joined forces with the National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA), local dignitaries, and representatives of St. Andrews Marina in Panama City, Florida to expand access to sustainable marine fuel for… SEE MORE

The Pointe-Noire Interpretation and Observation Centre, near the village Tadoussac in Quebec, is a whale-watching and research hotspot. Photo by Adrien Le Toux/Alamy Stock Photo

Quieting the Global Growl

6/14/2024 - By Amorina Kingdom. Underwater noise from ships has gotten louder, reshaping marine ecosystems and the lives of animals that depend on sounds to eat, mate, and navigate. Can ships ever pipe down? It’s late September, and autumn colors flush the forested slopes of Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains. Sun dapples the two-lane… SEE MORE

NOAA Groundbreaking for Rhode Island Marine Operations Center

5/13/2024 - By nationalfisherman.com. A May 6 groundbreaking event in Rhode Island marked the start of building a new $146.7 million marine operations center for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The future homeport of the NOAA Marine Operations Center-Atlantic is planned for Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island, where the U.S. Navy awarded $146,778,932 to… SEE MORE

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Gigantic Marine Reptile’s Fossils Found by British Girl and Father

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4/26/2024 - By Will Dunham. April 17 (Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said on Wednesday the… SEE MORE

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A New Electric-Powered-Boat Speed Record

4/24/2024 - By Kevin Falvey. Princeton Electric Speedboating, in coordination with Flux Marine, achieved a record speed for an electric-powered boat. On October 26, 2023, a team of engineering students at Princeton University—Princeton Electric Speedboating—set a new world record of 114.20 mph for an electric-powered boat. The famed pro-outboard hydroplane Big Bird ran on… SEE MORE

Close-Up 4k Underwater Shot Of Beautiful Bluestriped Grunt ( Swim Above Coral Reef In Tropical Sea At Summer.

Adult Fish Struggle to Bounce Back in Marine Protected Areas

4/23/2024 - By ecomagazine.com. Age matters when determining how to protect life in the ocean; every population needs a strong cohort of adults to produce the next generation. But many marine protected areas (MPAs) are falling short of their most basic purpose: to rebuild struggling fish populations. In a new study published… SEE MORE

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