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Scientists call for end to Deep Sea Fishing
Tax payers subsidise deep sea fishing which is causing profound, lasting damage to fishes and life on the seafloor. Many deep-sea fish populaters around the world are collapsing, including sharks. -
Soft Coral is Reef Building
Scientists have long believed soft corals, one of the many endangered elements of marine life, are only minor contributors to the structure of coral reefs. But that’s not true, says new research from Tel Aviv University. A new in-depth analysis of reefs in the South China Sea has revealed that massive parts of the reefs [...] -
World’s Most Robust Marine Reserve is at Baja California
A thriving undersea wildlife park tucked away near the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula has proven to be the most robust marine reserve in the world, according to a new study led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Results of a 10-year analysis of Cabo Pulmo National Park (CPNP), [...] -
Mapping Coral Disease Clusters in the Caribbean
In the last 30 years, more than 90 percent of the reef-building coral in the Caribbean has disappeared because of a disease of unknown origin. Now, scientists from the University of Florida have used a GIS (geographic information system) to show the whereabouts of the clusters of diseased coral. Their findings, published in the journal [...] -
Ningaloo Reef On World Heritage List
UNESCO adds Ningaloo reef in Western Australia to its World Heritage List. One of the longest near-shore reefs in the world, Ningaloo Reef hosts annual whale shark gatherings and is home to numerous marine species including a wealth of turtles. -
Scientists Warn of Unprecidented Marine Exctinctions
We knew it was bad, but it is even worse than we thought. World rushing heedlessly towards global marine extinctions. -
Jellyfish blooms move food energy from fish to bacteria
Over the last few years reports of jellyfish blooms around the world have been increasing. This is bad news for the marine food web, as the jellyfish are voracious predators of plankton, but are not readily consumed by other predators. New study shows that jellyfish shunt food energy from fish toward bacteria. -
Scientists Reveal New Technique to Monitor Coral Reef ‘Vital Signs’
With the world’s coral reefs threatened by coastal development, pollution, rising sea temperatures and other factors, scientists have developed a new method to monitor the health of these underwater ecosystems. -
How Life on the Surface affects Life on the Seafloor
Analysis of a comprehensive database has revealed strong links between biological productivity in the surface oceans and patterns of biomass and abundance at the seafloor, helping to explain large regional differences. The vast majority of the biological production in the world’s oceans occurs within sunlit surface waters – the “photic zone“. Through the process of [...] -
Why leatherback turtles linger in South Pacific
Tagging and tracking leatherback sea turtles has produced new insights into the turtles’ behavior in a part of the South Pacific Ocean long considered an oceanic desert. According to researchers at Stanford University, the new data will help researchers predict the turtles’ movements in the ever-changing environment of the open ocean, with the goal of [...]
