By Emmanuelle Landais, Staff Reporter Gulf News Dubai – The sight of hundreds of bloodied dead sharks, waiting to be sold at fish markets across the UAE does not bode well for the ocean’s super-predator. Read the full article
Reef Relief has kicked off our Fall membership and fund-raising drive. Our goal is to raise $50,000 by winter solstice, December 21, 2010. You can help us reach this goal at no cost to you. iGive.com is going to attempt to donate $5,000 in just 24 hours to Reef Relief and other causes. For each person who joins […]
Reef Relief would like to thank all the amazing volunteers who came out to the 25th year of the International Coastal Clean Up. On Saturday, September 25th, Reef Relief volunteers took local action to heart by cleaning the shoreline of No Name Key. Volunteers removed 500 pounds of debris from the mangroves and recorded specific […]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2010) — Tile drainage in the Mississippi Basin is one of the great advances of the 19th and 20th centuries, allowing highly productive agriculture in what was once land too wet to farm. In fact, installation of new tile systems continues every year, because it leads to increased crop yields. But a […]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2010) — Craig Altier, a member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee and an associate professor at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, comments on potential FDA approval of the first genetically engineered animal for use as food. Read the full article
ScienceDaily (Sep. 25, 2010) — Healthy reefs with more corals and fish generate predictably greater levels of noise, according to researchers working in Panama. This has important implications for understanding the behaviour of young fish, and provides an exciting new approach for monitoring environmental health by listening to reefs Read the full article
KeyWest City.com – Date of Record: September 23, 2010 The City of Key West on Wednesday took delivery of a brand new pumpout vessel, serving as a reminder that pumping out your liveaboard is easy, inexpensive, and a vital part of protecting our nearshore waters. The state-of-the-art 26-foot Pumpout USA 26T-1000 vessel is paid for entirely with […]
ScienceDaily (Sep. 22, 2010) — China leads the world in tonnage of fish caught annually as well as the amount of fish consumed, according to new finding. Read the full article
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By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Sep 15, 2010 (IPS) – Local fishers objected to the creation of a new no-fishing marine protected area off the coast of Belize in 1996. Today they are benefiting from the bounty of fish spilling out of the Laughing Bird Caye National Park. Tourism has also boomed, illustrating the multiple […]