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Fog Horn (A Call to Action) The fight for our Marine National Monuments isn’t over. We finally know *some* of the contents of Zincke’s monument review memo, and it’s not great. The DOI wants to see commercial fishing return to the Pacific Remote Islands and Rose Atoll Marine National Monuments. Longline fishing in these regions … Read More “A shark for all floods, Crowdfunding scams, old fish, bold fish, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: September 18, 2017” »
Carlotta Leon Guerrero is a former Member of the 23rd, 24th, and 25th Guam Senate. She was also a two-term president of the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures and previously worked as a radio and television journalist in Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. In April 2017, President Donald Trump ordered Secretary of Interior Ryan … Read More “Protect Our Oceans: from the ground in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands” »
Fog Horn (A Call to Action) Hurricane Harvey is sitting over the city of Houston, dumping biblical amounts of rain and flooding nearly the entire metropolitan area. There’s lots of great organizations to donate to, but in the immediate aftermath, it’s often best to donate to local relief programs that already have a ground team … Read More “How to help Houston, GameBoy SONAR, buy a lighthouse, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: August 28, 2017” »
Fog Horn (A Call to Action) We Should All Care About Sea Grant. Despite being one of the most bipartisan research programs in the United States, with a huge return on investment for coastal communities and businesses, Sea Grant is under attack from the current administration. Read the latest at Deep Sea News: Pam DiBona: #IAmSeaGrant. … Read More “Seasteading, ivory diving, seabed mining, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: June 5, 2017” »
Fog Horn (A Call to Action) This is you last day to submit public comments in defense of the Environmental Protection Agency! The time to save the EPA is now! If you don’t know quite what to say, I’ve prepared a script for you. 27 National Monuments are under review by the Department of the Interior. … Read More “Bony-eared assfish, shark swarms, ocean plastics, and more! The Monday Morning Salvage: May 15, 2017” »
Mariah Pfleger is a marine scientist at Oceana, an international marine conservation non-profit, advising both the responsible fishing and sharks campaigns. She graduated from Florida State University in 2012 where she studied coastal sharks and their relatives. In 2016 she earned her Master’s degree from the University of West Florida where she researched both coastal … Read More “The Case for Shark Fin Trade Bans” »
Fog Horn (A Call to Action) The time to save the EPA is now! The EPA is seeking public input on the new administrations approach to environmental regulations. They are required to seek public input. They are required to respond to public input. Go tell them how you feel. Public comments close May 15. Here’s … Read More “Terraforming Mars on Earth, giant larvaceans, conservation jobs, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: May 8, 2017” »
After a month hiatus for packing, moving, and unpacking, we’re back! Cuttings (short and sweet): Watch a dogfish swim around British Columbia, video by GEERG. Follow Dr. Andrea Kroetz, a postdoc studying sawfish, on twitter! What to look for in canned tuna, a new update from Seafood Watch. 13 facts about mola mola, the ocean sunfish. … Read More “Thursday Afternoon Dredging: May 4th, 2017” »
Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now) Ruby Sea Dragons! For the First Time, a Ruby Sea Dragon has been filmed in the wild, and it is magnificent. Some SFS deep history: I got my start in marine science working in a seahorse lab. Seahorses are among my favorite animals. Jetsam (what we’re enjoying from around the … Read More “Monday Morning Salvage: January 16, 2017” »
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is adapting new technology to the business of saving and endangered species: they’re sending in the drones. Black-footed ferrets are a small, solitary, extremely territorial weasel-like animal that lives in the American west. Once abundant in central North America, today, their wild population stands at around 500. Black-footed ferrets … Read More “The plague-busting, prairie-dog-vaccinating, ferret-saving drone” »