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Starting in 2019, MAPP organized the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) Task Force to coordinate research activities targeted toward the development of climate projections. The CMIP6 Task Force links researchers across 13 funded projects from the FY19 21st Century Integrated U.S. Climate Predictions and Projections funding opportunity, to facilitate communication, coordination, and synthesis of research results.
The core membership of this Task Force were from universities and NOAA and other Federal centers and laboratories. Members of the Task Force also included invited scientists from across the community with interest and expertise in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project.
The CMIP6 TF was led by Ben Livneh (University of Colorado, Boulder), and co-led by Angie Pendergrass (NCAR), Kate Marvel (Columbia University, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies), and Ryan Rykaczewski (NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center).
Three Key Thematic Areas of the CMIP6 Task Force
The CMIP6TF organized around three primary themes: Water in the West, Cold Climate Processes, and Combined Extreme Events, and held a virtual ‘Write-a-thon’ event during summer 2020 that brought together researchers to explore collaborative themes and target input for the fifth National Climate Assessment (due 2023).
“The TF helped CMIP6 research projects by identifying common issues and discussing approaches towards solutions,” said task force lead Ben Livneh. “For example, a few research topics that were frequently debated were strategies for integrating projections from models of differing climate sensitivity, whether and how to present central tendencies across models, and how these assumptions affect portrayals of compound hazards. A frequent logistical issue faced by multiple projects was the acquisition of CMIP6 model data, which was felt to be somewhat more difficult than previous CMIP initiatives and some approaches were shared.”
The TF organized a number of meetings with leaders of the fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) and provided input and perspective on projections and model handling issues. One TF co-lead, Kate Marvel, is serving as the lead of the NCA5 Climate Trends chapter, while another, Angie Pendergrass, is serving as an author on the Climate Processes chapter. One of the main outcomes of this task force is a special journal issue focusing on CMIP6 science in the journal Earth's Future. The issue includes a broad range of analyses that leverage simulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6).
When asked about his time as the task force lead, Ben Livneh says, “It was an honor to serve as the lead of the TF, together with really dedicated co-leads. I found discussions with the TF to be stimulating and was humbled by all the great science being done by my esteemed colleagues!”
To learn more about this task force, please visit our homepage.
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The meeting was organised in both in-person and online formats, connecting more than 500 venues across the country.
Addressing the event, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha said that our oceans are currently facing unprecedented risks due to the impacts of climate change, sea level rise, unsustainable extraction of resources, environmental pollution and destruction of marine ecosystems.
He cited United Nations’ warnings that 90% of big fish populations are depleted and 50% of coral reefs are destroyed. Plastic pollution has been discovered at the deepest point of the ocean, and humans are taking more from the ocean than can be replenished.
Therefore, ‘Revitalisation: collective action for the ocean’ was chosen as the theme for World Oceans Day 2022, emphasising the urgent need to join hands together to revitalise the oceans, rebuild marine ecosystems, preserve natural resources, and protect the marine environment, thereby creating sustainable future for humans and the environment.
The Vietnam Sea and Island Week 2022 focuses on the theme “sustainable development of sea-based economy in association with preservation of biodiversity and marine ecosystems”, aiming to address the challenges and limitations in developing the marine economy of Vietnam.


Meet the robust ghost pipefish (Solenostomus cyanopterus), a 15-centimeter-long creature found in the Indian and Western Pacific Oceans. As you can see in the above video, this fish camouflages itself face-down as sea grass when disturbed. What a thrilling existence!
And like its relations, those fabulous seahorses, this species is considered to be semi-monogamous. Diver Robert Suntay filmed these two robust ghost pipefish hanging low off of the coast of Indonesia. As explains of the experience:


Birds, plants and insects native to the fragile ecosystems of Hawaii are, alas, well-represented on the federal endangered species list. And now there are more.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced the addition of 48 species unique to the island of Kaua'i. The bulk of them -- 45 -- are plants. The service is also designating "critical habitat" -- a term that identifies specific geographic areas with features deemed essential for conservation of a species -- for 47 of the species. Instead of a patchwork of overlapping areas, it will designate one large area.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a press release that the ecosystem-based approach "represents an efficient and innovative model for conserving imperiled species and their habitats."
"This extensive listing provides new hope for Kaua'i's many endangered species," said Suzanne Case, Hawaii executive director for The Nature Conservancy. "The ecosystem approach being adopted is the right approach because it will focus protection efforts on large-scale threats like invasive weeds and feral pig and goat populations. Controlling these threats will not only help ensure the survival of listed species, it will benefit entire ecosystems."
Meanwhile, closer to home, the service has also has just proposed listing loggerhead turtles, which are in warmer water to the south this time of year but are sometimes seen off the northeast coast come summer.
The Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries Service have determined that loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is globally comprised of nine distinct population segments that qualify as "species" for listing as endangered or threatened. One of them is "our" northwest Atlantic population.
Biggest threat to loggerhead turtles, by far, is the worldwide incidental capture in fishing gear, primarily in longlines and gil nets, a spokeswoman said. They also suffer because the beaches on which they nest are being developed. Light pollution is even contributing to their decline. The theory is that when young turtles hatch, they follow the moonlight reflected on the ocean to get to water. But if too many bright lights are nearby, they become confused and can't find their way.
This listing has been a few years in the works. You can read more about it at the North Florida FWS page (www.fws.gov/northflorida/) and at the Marine Fisheries page (www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/turtles/loggerhead.htm).
The move was applauded by the Gainesville, Fla.-based Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC), which boasts it is the world's oldest sea turtle research and protection group. The northwest Atlantic population nest on beaches in the United States from North Carolina to Texas and, until 1998, were an Endangered Species Act success story, according to a press release.
In January, concerns rose when loggerheads were "ominously absent" among sea turtles rescued from record cold waters in Florida, the group said. It suggested they were in perhaps worse decline than previously thought.
More than 4,000 juvenile sea turtles were affected by prolonged freezing temperatures, but unlike in the past, almost all of the turtles found this year were green turtles. What happened to the loggerheads? It suggested they were in worse decline than previously thought.
About that cold snap and what it can do: Manatees also were suffering. But David Godfrey, CCC's executive director, e-mailed me at the time about what they were seeing among turtles. Here's what he said:
"Typically, even in the winter, water temperatures in Florida's coastal waterways do not dip below about the mid-50s even on cold days. The relatively shallow waters are kept warm by the sun even on the coldest days. However, a week into January we had four or five days in a row of sub-freezing weather that reached all the way to south Florida. Water temperatures dropped into the low 40s, and we started seeing the largest 'cold-stunning' event of sea turtles ever witnessed.
"From the Florida Panhandle all the way down to Florida Bay and the Keys, turtles were succumbing to the cold. They typically are not impacted until temperatures dip below 50 for a prolonged period of time. We had turtles washing ashore or bobbing to the surface of our coastal waters for 12 days. Before water temperatures started to rise back up to above 50, over 4,000 turtles were recovered from the water and from coastlines.
"Most of the sea turtles impacted are 'sub-adults,' and they live year-round in our lagoon waterways. Often, when the temperatures drop as in this case, they try to head south to find warmer temperatures. Unfortunately, the cold weather covered so much of Florida (from the Panhandle to the Keys) that there was nowhere to go.
"The rescuers know turtles are in trouble because they literally just float motionless on the surface of the water or they are spotted beached and motionless on a shore. Most of the turtles were spotted along the north Gulf coast of the state or in inland coastal waterways along Florida's central east coast (Mosquito and Indian River Lagoons). The vast majority of the turtles could be cared for by placing them in a warm room or in warm water until their body temperatures rose back up and the water temperatures were high enough that they could be released.
Unfortunately, about a quarter of all the turtles died nearly 1,000 in all. As of right now, water temperatures are back in the high 50s (or even higher the further south you go) and many of the turtles have been released. However, a substantial number of turtles were in such bad shape that they will need longer term care in facilities around the state. There are between 200 and 300 turtles affected by the cold that are still receiving treatment."
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Pectin is a complex uronic acid-containing polysaccharide typically found in plant cell walls, though forms of pectin are also found in marine diatoms and seagrasses. Genetic loci that target pectin have recently been identified in two phyla of marine bacteria. These loci appear to encode a pectin saccharification pathway that is distinct from the canonical pathway typically associated with phytopathogenic terrestrial bacteria. However, very few components of the marine pectin metabolism pathway have been experimentally validated. Here, we biochemically reconstructed the pectin saccharification pathway from a marine Pseudoalteromonas sp. in vitro and show that it results in the production of galacturonate and the key metabolic intermediate 5-keto-4-deoxyuronate (DKI). We demonstrate the sequential de-esterification and depolymerization of pectin into oligosaccharides and the synergistic action of glycoside hydrolases (GHs) to fully degrade these oligosaccharides into monosaccharides. Furthermore, we show that this pathway relies on enzymes belonging to GH family 105 to carry out the equivalent chemistry afforded by an exolytic polysaccharide lyase (PL) and KdgF in the canonical pectin pathway. Finally, we synthesize our findings into a model of marine pectin degradation and compare it with the canonical pathway. Our results underline the shifting view of pectin as a solely terrestrial polysaccharide and highlight the importance of marine pectin as a carbon source for suitably adapted marine heterotrophs. This alternate pathway has the potential to be exploited in the growing field of biofuel production from plant waste.IMPORTANCE Marine polysaccharides, found in the cell walls of seaweeds and other marine macrophytes, represent a vast sink of photosynthetically fixed carbon. As such, their breakdown by marine microbes contributes significantly to global carbon cycling. Pectin is an abundant polysaccharide found in the cell walls of terrestrial plants, but it has recently been reported that some marine bacteria possess the genetic capacity to degrade it. In this study, we biochemically characterized seven key enzymes from a marine bacterium that, together, fully degrade the backbone of pectin into its constituent monosaccharides. Our findings highlight the importance of pectin as a marine carbon source available to bacteria that possess this pathway. The characterized enzymes also have the potential to be utilized in the production of biofuels from plant waste.
- Metabolic Networks and Pathways


It was nearing sunset when I spotted this tiny little spotted rock crab hanging out in the tide pools at Wawaloli Beach on the Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii. They are not normally out during the day so I guess it was getting close enough to dark for him. This is a macro image; he wasn’t more than a couple of inches wide, legs and all.
The Hawaiians call these crabs 7-11 crabs. They range in color from a deep orange to light rust color and they have seven large dark reddish-maroon to brown colored spots on their back. Their shell is thick and heavy but smooth and they have extremely strong pinchers.
Hawaiian legend says that this crab has its spots because a sea god tried to capture it and eat it, but the crab drew blood. The sea god kept on trying to catch the crab with his bloodied fingers and that's why he has so many red-brownish spots.
This image has been digitally painted.
Copyright 2017 Susan Rissi Tregoning
December 7th, 2017
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Lady Robinson’s Beach was closed overnight after a shark was spotted within the nets.
Videos posted to social media show the shark swimming at the Brighton-Le-Sands beach close to shore on Tuesday afternoon.
Police responded to calls of the shark at 6.30pm and evacuated those still swimming.
Bayside Council are co-ordinating with DPI to secure the beach.
A search by divers this morning has found no trace of the shark.
Divers have almost completed the drag netting of the Brighton Beach enclosure to ensure the shark has gone but the beach remains closed.
“The divers have been on-site and have found no sign of the shark,” a Bayside Council spokeswoman said on Wednesday morning.
The divers discovered a whole in the nets on the southern side of the enclosure.
“The hole has been repaired and the net lifted in the deepest part and the enclosure dragged through twice but has found no sign of the shark.
“The nets are checked monthly for the council by a professional company.”
The beach was expected to be reopened this afternoon.
A local mother who saw the shark said: "There was some commotion with a bloke walking up and down the beach shouting "shark, shark".
Another said: "There were a load of kids saw it. It's a bit unbelievable, but there you go, a shark in the cordoned area."
Others took to Facebook forums including; Rockdale Residents Unite to voice their concerns.
“I know lots of families with kids swim there inside the net thinking it’s safe. We should be asking where are the people responsible about net safety!?, wrote one mother.
“Is this happening now??? Scary!” wrote another person.
“Probably a bull shark. It’s their feeding time at dusk,” speculated another.
The nets at Brighton-Le-Sands don’t go all the way to the sand.
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5 June 2020
It was good to get out to see whales today as the last 2 days weather caused cancellation of the cruise. We saw a juvenile humpback near the Fingal Lighthouse and then went on to spot a mother and calf rolling on the surface and tail diving. There was a huge pod of around 50 Oceanic dolphins playing around the whales.
We did not cruise this afternoon.


Whales are some of the most fascinating creatures on Earth. There are many species of whales, and some of them can be found even in the Mediterranean – Adriatic.
Whales belong to a group of cetaceans, including dolphins and porpoises. They are mammals, breathe air and nurse their young with milk.
1) Whales may appear to be very similar to fish, but that is not the case.
In fact, whales breathe oxygen from the air into their lungs rather than extracting it from the water. Another difference is that whales are warm-blooded animals, while fish are cold-blooded. There are also many differences in appearance between whales and fish.
Whales have smooth skin, which is designed to better slip through the water, unlike the scales on a fish’s skin. Whales’ eyes can’t see underwater, and a fish’s can, but they can see better than in the air.
2) Whales are some of the largest animals on Earth.
The most giant whales are blue whales, weighing up to 330 pounds and measuring more than 100 feet long. The smallest whales are the pygmy sperm whales, which average 7 feet in length.
3) The front and back of a whale’s body are very different from each other.
The most significant part of the whale is its enormous head, which makes up about one-quarter to one-third of its entire body length. Behind its blowholes on top of the head, a whale has two nostrils that lead to its lungs.
The nostrils have muscular openings located high on the mouth’s hard palate so whales can close them when diving.
Because whales swim with their heads facing forward, they must see where they are going! A series of thin bones surrounds and protects each eye. The eyes of whales are proportionately enormous, but they are tiny compared to the size of their skull.
Whales’ backbones also continue into their upper lips.
They have two blowholes located on top of the head. Blowholes are openings that allow whales to breathe when coming up for air after deep dives. A whale’s throat grooves point forward and connect to the windpipe, which directs air into the lungs.
4) Whale mouths sit underneath their bodies and face downward.
The reason whales do not have visible teeth is that they use suction to eat and take in water (and small fish) instead of biting and chewing their food as we do.
They then use their tongues to push the water out through baleen plates.
Baleen is a horny, fringed material that hangs down from the upper jaw and acts like teeth to filter small animals such as plankton, krill, small fish, shrimp, etc.
Whales use throat grooves to expand when taking in food and water.
5) Whales are powerful swimmers.
Some whales can swim up to 28 miles per hour, but they usually move much more slowly, around 10–12 miles per hour. Whales exhale (breath out) before making deep dives to catch fish and other prey.
The tail flukes provide the thrust that whales need to swim through water. When whales move, their tails beat up and down. The fluked tail of a whale is horizontal to its body.
6) Whales can see well in air and water!
Whales have huge eyes that appear similar to humans, but they are not as mobile.
They cannot rotate or focus as ours do; instead, whales use only one eye to focus on objects at a time. A whale’s vision is somewhat limited because it has a small area of rods and cones (photoreceptors that respond to light.)
7) Whales have a four-chambered heart.
Even though whales are mammals, their hearts do not have valves inside them.
This means that the blood can flow in two directions through the heart, making it easier for the whale to circulate oxygenated blood. This is important to hold their breath while diving deep underwater.
8) Some whales sing songs that can be heard for miles.
Humpback whales make the loudest and longest songs in the world. They can be heard for many miles below or above water!
A whale’s song is a series of moans, howls, grunts, and other sounds that may last up to 30 minutes.
The humpback whale can sing several different songs at once so that the sound of one music does not drown out another. Scientists still don’t know why whales sing!
9) Whales can live for up to 200 years!
The oldest known whale was a female bowhead whale over 211 years old when whalers killed her in the Arctic Ocean in 2006. Scientists study whales to learn more about their life spans, feeding habits, reproduction, and other aspects of their biology.
10) Some whales breach (jump entirely out of the water).
Breaching is a behavior that humpback whales do pretty often. Scientists are still not sure why whales breach, but several theories exist.
Some people think that the whales better understand their surroundings, while others believe they communicate with other whales.
Another theory suggests that the whales breach because they are happy! No one knows why whales breach, but it is definitely a fantastic sight to see.
11) Whales are air-breathing mammals.
When a whale dives underwater, it takes a deep breath before going down.
When the whale comes up for another breath of air, some water may get caught in its long throat hairs called baleen plates. The whale uses its tongue to push out the extra water to breathe more easily.
12) Whales are not born with the ability to swim.
When whales are babies or calves, they cannot swim independently. Baby whales must learn to swim by watching adults in their family group. A mother whale will teach her baby to swim by nudging it with her body or flippers.
13) Whales have about 1-2 gallons of blood in their bodies.
Most vertebrates have 1 gallon of blood, but whales have about 2 gallons. This is because the heart must pump enough blood to send nutrients and oxygen throughout the whale’s giant body.
14) Whales are not the only animals that sing.
Birds, frogs, and even crickets make noise by singing. Singing is a way of communicating with other members of the species.
Some scientists believe that whales sing to communicate with each other, but we still don’t know why they do it!
15) Whales do not eat meat!
Whales are actually carnivores, but they only eat small fish. Whales mostly eat herring, mackerel, and sardines.
To catch their prey, whales use echolocation or sound waves to find the fish in the water.
16) Some whales make loud sounds called “whale songs.”
A whale song is an unusual sound that some whales make. It can be long, repetitive low notes that last for hours. Scientists still do not know why the whales make these sounds or what purpose they serve.
17) Male humpback whales usually sing only one song at a time.
Each male humpback whale has its own unique song. Some scientists think that the whales sing their songs to attract mates or defend their territory.
18) A group of whales is called a pod.
A pod can be made up of any type of whale, but it usually refers to a group of dolphins or porpoises. When people talk about whales, they may use pod or group.
19) Whales have a layer of fat called blubber to help them stay warm in cold water.
Blubber can be up to 2 inches thick! This thick skin helps insulate the whale’s body heat. Whales are mammals, and they need to stay warm in cold water, just like we do.
20) A baby whale is called calves.
Calves are born after a gestation period (pregnancy) of about 11 months. Calves nurse from their mothers for about 6 months, but they start to eat solid food at about 3 months old.
21) Whales are not as fat as you might think!
Whales have thick layers of fat and many muscles underneath, but they don’t have much body fat. This is why whales look skinny when they are out of water.
22) Some whales sleep with one eye open!
This is called unihemispheric slow-wave sleep. The whale closes one eye and keeps the other open, so it can watch for predators, stay near its group, and breathe regularly.
While one side of the brain sleeps, the other side stays awake and controls the breathing muscles.
23) Whales don’t have to surface to breathe!
Whales can stay underwater for as long as 45 minutes without coming up for air. A whale has two blowholes on top of its head, but these are not used like our noses.
Instead, whales spout (breathe out) water from their blowholes to get rid of the saltwater they have swallowed.
24) Whales are gentle giants!
Whales may be big and powerful but gentle and curious animals. They often approach boats and divers to check them out. Some whales even seem to enjoy playing with humans!
25) The humpback whale is the most famous!
The humpback whale is a giant, black and white whale that lives in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is known for its loud songs and playful behavior. Humpback whales are endangered, so it is essential to protect them.
26) Whales are some of the most intelligent animals on Earth!
Whales are brilliant animals. They can learn new things quickly and remember them for a long time. Scientists are still learning about the intelligence of whales, but it is clear that they are much brighter than we thought!
So there you have it! Some interesting facts about whales. Now you know why they are such amazing creatures.


Wirral and Sefton coast protection plans
Maps have been revealed showing two possible marine protection zones off the Merseyside coastline.
Hilbre Island in Wirral and coastline from Formby to Crosby in Sefton are identified as important sites of marine life in a report by the Irish Sea Conservation Zones (ISCZ) Project.
The areas could become protected Marine Conservation Zones with restrictions on fishing and sea leisure activities.
The ISCZ wants to hear views of people who regularly use the areas.
Dr Greg Whitfield, ISCZ project manager, said: "This latest progress report is the last big chance for people to comment on possible Marine Conservation Zones before the recommendations go to the government.
"We had over 80 responses to our last progress report and we are hoping to hear from at least as many people again this time round."
The possible zone on the Sefton coast plans to protect the intertidal peat beds that occur in an area covering 11.5km2.
Preserved within them are remnants of a submerged ancient forest and also examples of ancient human and animal footprints.
Over 200 trails of footprints from the Mesolithic to Neolithic ages have been recorded.
The possible Marine Conservation Zone off the Wirral coast aims to bring added protection to the popular Hilbre Island and the Little Eye and Middle Eye islands at the mouth of the Dee.
The area around the Dee Estuary is a well regulated fishery and is also already protected by other designations including a Special Area of Conservation.


Abstract: In the last decades, research has focused on the capabilities of microbes to secrete exopolysaccharides (EPS), because these polymers differ from the commercial ones derived essentially from plants or algae in their numerous valuable qualities. These biopolymers have emerged as new polymeric materials with novel and unique physical characteristics that have found extensive applications. In marine microorganisms the produced EPS provide an instrument to survive in adverse conditions: They are found to envelope the cells by allowing the entrapment of nutrients or the adhesion to solid substrates. Even if the processes of synthesis and release of exopolysaccharides request high-energy investments for the bacterium, these biopolymers permit resistance under extreme environmental conditions. Marine bacteria like Bacillus, Halomonas, Planococcus, Enterobacter, Alteromonas, Pseudoalteromonas, Vibrio, Rhodococcus, Zoogloea but also Archaea as Haloferax and Thermococcus are here described as EPS producers underlining biopolymer hyperproduction, related fermentation strategies including the effects of the chemical composition of the media, the physical parameters of the growth conditions and the genetic and predicted experimental design tools.
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Finore, Ilaria; Di Donato, Paola; Mastascusa, Vincenza; Nicolaus, Barbara; Poli, Annarita. 2014. "Fermentation Technologies for the Optimization of Marine Microbial Exopolysaccharide Production." Mar. Drugs 12, no. 5: 3005-3024.


Water-column Biogeochemistry and Physics in Shelf Seas
C. Davis (UoL), E. Cavan (UoS), C. Ostle (UEA), C Williams (NOC)
Shelf seas support up to 35 % of ocean primary productivity and 90 % of world fisheries while representing less than 7 % of the surface ocean area. They are therefore important regions in terms of ocean biogeochemical cycles, climate and policy. Understanding physical, biogeochemical and biological processes and how they are coupled in both temperate and polar shelf seas is an important challenge in oceanography. An array of methods including ship-based observations, autonomous sampling, remote sensing and modelling are being employed by a number of UK research programmes and projects to help improve our understanding of shelf sea processes, focusing on cross-shelf fluxes of mass, energy and constituents, internal biogeochemical cycling of elements, benthic-pelagic exchange, air-sea fluxes, riverine inputs, and the influence of physical processes on ecosystem dynamics. The ultimate goal is to better understand the physical and biogeochemical mechanisms that sustain high rates of productivity and drive carbon export in shelf seas and how they might be affected by future climate change, thus better informing policy and marine resource management. Contributions are invited from across these disciplines, where observational, experimental and/or numerical studies are used to address the coupling of physical, biogeochemical and biological processes in the shelf sea environment.


Pelagic fish are an excellent target in Moreton Bay in April.
Longtail tuna, mack tuna, spotty mackerel and school mackerel can be caught from as far south as Macleay Island, right up into the northern end of the bay. The greatest concentrations of fish will be found near bait. Bait is influenced by a number of factors such as food, rainfall, tide, structure and wind.
Tuna and mackerel generally chase small (under 60mm) baitfish in Moreton Bay and feed on tiny plankton sized organisms. Plankton comprises of small plants (phytoplankton) and animals (zooplankton) including algae, various microscopic animals and jellyfish as well as the eggs and larvae of many fish, crustaceans and worms.
Some forms of plankton can move independently up or down in the water column throughout the day, but they are at the mercy of wind and tide for their horizontal movements. Current lines trap plankton in their swirling eddies. A current line can be identified by a colour change on the water and by patches or long ribbons of dirty planktonic matter floating on the surface. These attract the baitfish, which in turn attract larger predators, so they are always worth investigating when on a tuna or mackerel hunt.
When the wind blows consistently from one direction for a few days, the plankton and baitfish will be pushed along with the breeze, pushing food along whatever shoreline they are blown towards. For example, when a southeasterly has blown for a few days the areas from Cleveland Point through to Wellington Point and up to Mud Island will have more bait than they would have had after a week of westerlies.
Winds also push currents against the coast, and southeasterlies bring warmer, clean water into the bay and push bait schools up along the beaches. When bait schools come into the bay there are often big feeding frenzies of pelagics around the seaward end of the Rous and Rainbow channels, Jumpinpin and the top of Cape Moreton.
Rainfall further up the catchment flushes both baitfish and their planktonic food supply from the rivers. After heavy rains there is often a distinct dirty water line at the mouth of the Brisbane River and between Coochiemudlo and Macleay islands (sometimes extending right up to Peel Island). When this happens it’s the obvious place to start looking for tuna, mackerel and tailor.
Structure is always a good place to look for pelagic fish; it can be anything from a marker beacon to a sandbank to a whole island. Structure can be a food resource, an interruption from strong currents and provide cover from predators. The coral edges of islands such as Mud, St Helena and Peel are an obvious place for bait to seek shelter from strong currents and to pick up food coming from the reef and off the current lines. Deeper reefs in the middle of Moreton Bay produce upwellings of current that hold bait.
Another less obvious place to look is along the edges of sandbanks on a falling tide. Bait that hides in weedbeds and gutters on the top of the tide becomes vulnerable as the tide recedes so it’s forced into the deeper water. Similarly, large bait schools in open water become easy prey when they are herded up against a sandbank by a pack of tuna or mackerel.
This is just a short overview of some of the factors that effect the movement of bait and pelagics around Moreton Bay. The same kind of thinking can be used to identify areas of reef fish activity too as they also follow concentrations of food from reef to reef.
Until next month, tight lines, or for more information on the southern Moreton Bay area, come and see me at Fish Head (Cnr Broadwater Tce and Stradbroke St, Redland Bay, www.fishhead.com.au) or call us on (07) 3206 7999.Reads: 3064


With summer within reach, it’s an exciting time for wildlife and the other living things they rely on. How many different species can we identify in the intertidal zone, ocean, and boardwalk at Mowry Beach in Lubec? This is an easy, short hike with ample time for soaking in the view and exploring the beach.
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Professor Mike Meredith
Michael Meredith is an oceanographer and Science Leader at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in Cambridge, UK. He is head of the Polar Oceans team at BAS, which has research foci on determining the role of the polar oceans on global climate, the ice sheets, and the interdisciplinary ocean system. He is Professorial Fellow in Oceanography at Murray Edwards College (University of Cambridge), a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a NERC Individual Merit Promotion (Band 2) scientist. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals, and was the inaugural chair of the Southern Ocean Observing System. He was recently Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Oceans and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. In 2018, Mike was awarded the Tinker-Muse Prize for Science and Policy in Antarctica, in recognition of his contributions to the study of the Southern Ocean and its global impacts, and the Challenger Medal. In 2020, he was awarded the Polar Medal by HM the Queen.
The oceans, the blue economy and implications for climate change event
The oceans, the blue economy and implications for climate change
Date: 29 November 2023, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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Many conversations about sustainability and climate-change focus on activities on land – the green part of our planet. This misses a vital part of the puzzle, the role that our oceans play.
Ocean and Coastal Futures - Bursary
As part of our commitment to encouraging and supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, Ocean and Coastal Futures is launching its first Coastal Futures Bursary in partnership with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. This opportunity is open for young people aged 18 to 30 years old, who are currently underrepresented in the marine and coastal sector and face financial barriers to attending. Individuals do not have to be working or studying in the sector currently but must reside in the UK.
CLASS Modelling Workshop 2024
The CLASS Programme is hosting a Modelling Workshop in early 2024. This is aimed at UK participants only. Event details and criteria to sign up are available here.


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Growth of market-size abalone (Haliotis midae) fed kelp (Ecklonia maxima) versus a low-protein commercial feed
(Taylor & Francis, 2008)
The growth of grow-out abalone fed on kelp, with ca. 10 % dry weight protein content, was compared with that of those fed a new ,ca. 26 % protein, commercial feed in a flow-through system on a South African west coast ...


New permits have been issued for boat based whale watching in South Africa. Ocean Safaris has operated for over 10 years with a legal licence and are now proud to have secured a long term permit and scoring the highest in our area. Licensed operators may go as close as 50m to whales. One of the nicest places to watch whales in South Africa is Plettenberg Bay which is situated on the Garden Route in the Western Cape. There are a multitude of marine life. During migrating times, we see the Humpback Whales, the Southern Right whales visit us to breed and calve. The Bryde's whale pops in and out of our bay all year round. Dolphins include the Common, Humpbacked and Bottle nose. Robberg Peninsula on the one side of the bay is home to thousands of Cape Fur seals. To watch these fantastic and majestic animals is nothing but spectacular. You can go on a whale watching boat with Ocean Safaris who are situated on Central Beach. www.oceansafaris.co.za or email@example.com
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June 26, 2023
As the largest ocean in the world, the Pacific covers a third of Earth’s surface and is bigger than all the world’s landmasses combined. So, it’s no surprise that it’s the only ocean basin with two dedicated Regional Fisheries Management Organizations for tuna and other highly migratory species (tuna RFMOs or tRFMOs for short), oriented to its eastern and western halves. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) is responsible for management from Southern Canada down to the tip of South America, and west towards approximately Hawaii. And around and west of Hawaii, approximately the western 2/3rd’s of the basin, Pacific tuna are managed by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).
In many cases, these tRFMOs have their own contained stocks. Yet, despite the Pacific being 20,000 km from end to end, some highly migratory species require cohesive management across the basin’s full longitudinal breadth. One such example is North Pacific albacore tuna, which has an annual migration cycle that takes it from waters off Japan all the way to the United States, resulting in a single stock residing in the North Pacific.
North Pacific albacore is often considered a smart seafood choice by organizations such as seafood watch, with the stock neither overfished nor experiencing overfishing. Pole and line is the primary fishing gear, which is known to have a low impact on the broader environment as a highly selective gear with very little unwanted bycatch. But enacting new policies will be crucial for maintaining the sustainability of this stock. As temperature-sensitive fish, changes in the environment, including from anthropogenic climate change, have the potential to shift albacore’s distribution and perhaps even abundance. Measures that can help the fishery adapt to such impacts, such as harvest strategies, will be especially important.
Fortunately, following an agreement on management objectives and other harvest strategy elements by both IATTC and WCPFC in 2022, a full harvest strategy for North Pacific albacore is scheduled to be adopted this year. Achieving this will require several steps, beginning in the first week of July when WCPFC’s Northern Committee convenes to discuss management of WCPFC’s fisheries occurring in mainly temperate waters. The United States and Canada have submitted a joint proposal for a harvest strategy that would automatically adjust fishing levels to keep the stock at the target population size agreed last year. It also includes measures to guide collaboration between IATTC, WCPFC, and the International Scientific Committee (ISC, the body responsible for science of North Pacific tRFMO stocks) to ensure smooth decision making processes as the harvest strategy operates.
If the draft formulaic harvest strategy can be agreed to at this meeting, it would set the stage for an equivalent, full harvest strategy to be adopted first by the IATTC in August, and then WCPFC in December, creating the first harvest strategy in the world to be enacted by two or more RFMOs together. Following on the heels of the first multi-stock harvest strategy adopted last year for Atlantic bluefin tuna, a joint harvest strategy for North Pacific albacore would be another major breakthrough in adapting harvest strategies across a diversity of management contexts. It would also set important precedent for developing a harvest strategy for Pacific bluefin tuna, which would also need to be jointly enacted by IATTC and WCPFC and is scheduled for adoption in 2025.
Stay tuned to our twitter feed to see how things progress!


2 edition of Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon found in the catalog.
Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon
1981 by Allan Hancock Foundation, Institute for Marine and Coastal Studies, University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Calif .
Written in English
Bibliography: p. 70-73.
|Statement||by Kristian Fauchald and Danil R. Hancock.|
|Series||Allan Hancock monographs in marine biology ;, no. 11|
|Contributions||Hancock, Danil R.|
|LC Classifications||QL391.A6 F374 1981|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||73 p. :|
|Number of Pages||73|
|LC Control Number||86175870|
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Preliminary data on the composition and distribution of polychaetes in the deep-water areas of the north-western part of the Sea of Japan Deep-water Polychaetes from a Transect off Central. Deep-water polychaetes from a transect off central Oregon.
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Heceta Bank is one of the largest banks off the western coast of North America, extending 55 km from north to south and rising above the continental shelf to 67 m water depth. Due to heterogeneous substrate of varying relief, the bank supports a diverse assemblage of demersal fishes and is an important fishing ground off the coast of Oregon, USA.
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On Monday, October 6, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced the establishment of the Nazca-Desventuradas Marine Park, which will cover an area The area of 297,518 square kilometers is designated as a comprehensive marine protection area, and fishing and other fishing activities are prohibited in the area. With the establishment of this marine park, Chile’s marine protected area will increase from 4.4% to 12% of its total marine area, and will become the largest marine protected area in the Americas to date.
Sea lions on San Ambrosio Island
In February 2013, Blancpain joined the National Geographic “Original Ocean Expedition” team to explore the waters near the Desventuradas, covering the islands of San Félix and San Ambrosio. Island of San Ambrosio. The expedition is made up of a strong line of scientists and uses cutting-edge technology to explore for the first time one of the last remaining primitive seas in South America.
Underwater cinematographer Manu San Felix hides in the seaweed in San Ambrosio to photograph the fish above his head
“The newly established Nazca-Deswinded Ocean Park is a gift from Chile to the world”, Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer and Leader of the “Original Ocean Expedition Program” ) Said. ‘The area encompasses pristine marine environments not found in other marine ecosystems, including deep-sea mountains, which contain new species not seen in academia, a rich variety of crayfish, and a small number of Chilean fur sea lions previously thought to be extinct fur seal). ‘
A starfish: on San Ambrosio, starfish is the main predator of sea urchins
Some sea areas in the protected area have been relatively untouched by humans. These pristine seas, such as those near the Deswinded Islands, are the key to the healthy development of the global marine ecosystem. It is hoped that more countries in the world will join the ranks of creating marine protected areas and work together to preserve and restore the diversity of marine life and marine ecology.
A school of big yellow lionfish
Blancpain was the first pioneering partner to support the Primitive Ocean Expedition program. Blancpain’s strong support has promoted the continuous development of the ‘Primitive Ocean Expedition Program’ project, thus making it among the world’s major marine conservation actions. This project, led by National Geographic Explorer Dr. Eric Sarah, aims to explore the rare, unspoiled, pristine and pristine seas on Earth. They will research and photograph these sea areas as one of the measures to help the public and governments recognize the value and uniqueness of these ecosystems and to promote their inclusion in conservation.
A young sea lion dives down a vertical rock wall without algae, where the algae is eaten by sea urchins
With the support of Blancpain, the Primitive Ocean Expedition Program has successfully helped to protect parts of the waters of the United States, the United Kingdom, Chile, Gabon, Kiribati, and Costa Rica, with a total area of more than 2,500,000 square kilometers (approximately sixty Swiss territories ,), Including the UK’s newly established world’s largest maritime arrest zone. These protected areas provide important benchmarks for understanding the true impact of human activities on marine life, assessing the effectiveness of marine management and protection measures, and an important step forward in improving the state of the oceans and benefiting future generations.


Congener profiles of polychlorinated biphenyls and the effect on marine mussels at an outfall site, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
This study investigated the effect of freshwater as a point source of PCBs contributing to a marine outfall region. Inflowing and outflowing water from the North End Lake, Port Elizabeth, was collected to determine the contamination levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Mussels at the outflow to the sea were also sampled. The samples were analysed by an internal standard method for 6 indicator PCB congeners using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in selected ion monitoring (SIM) mode. The total PCB concentrations in the water (dissolved plus particulate phases) ranged from 0.180 to 0.355 ng∙L-1 and from 20.84 to 31.34 ng∙g-1 wet weight (ww) in mussels. Lighter PCB congeners exhibited highest concentrations in the water samples while heavier PCBs were dominant in mussels. PCB-52 was the most abundant in the water samples while PCB-153 was abundant in mussels. To protect human health from the possible effects of eating fish and shellfish contaminated with PCBs, the Environmental Protection Agency regulates that the level of PCBs in water be no greater than 0.17 ng∙L-1 of water. The levels of PCBs in water from the North End Lake were found to be high (0.180 – 0.355 ng∙L-1) compared to the levels recommended by EPA.
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PINE KNOLL SHORES - The North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores is a turtle resort as 21 sea turtles take it easy. Living the life of luxury came at a price, and luckily they were rescued near Cape Lookout before it was too late.
"If the sea turtles get too cold, they become lethargic. They float to the surface. Then, the water, waves and wind are what brings them onto the shore," said Wendy Cluse, Conservation and Research Coordinator.
The turtles are kept in warm, shallow water and given antibiotics if needed. The team at the aquarium keeps the turtles until the reptiles are given a clean bill of health.
"We just monitor them. We give them really good food, keep their water clean and give them a nice place to rest for a while," said Cluse.
The turtles will soon be released into the Gulf Stream but you can track their movement on the internet. One turtle is equipped with a satellite tracking device.
"It sends a signal out of an antennae that's on the back of the turtle. The signal is picked up by satellite overhead. If you get a really good position on that tag, it will send the information to a server back down on the ground," said Cluse.
To conserve battery life on the tag, it only turns on when the turtle comes up for air. Satellite tracking makes it fun for us yet contributes to research.
"Having the satellite tag technology allows researchers to follow them and really understand how they are using different habitats, where they're moving to at different times of the year and how big their habitats are," said Cluse.
The longest track, so far, on a sea turtle from the North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores is 100 days.
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2009 News – Artificial Reef Project
2009 News includes the Artificial Reef Project was hosted by the Phuket Marine Biology Center and The Adventure Club. Blue View Divers were happy for the chance to join . Divers assisted in the transplanting ofcoral clippings onto boulders collected from Loh Dalum Bay.
In fact, these boulders are coral skeletons, or coral ‘heads’, which washed into Loh Dalum Bay by the tsunami. Divers planted coral on to coral heads which were placed in the artificial reef.
The previous artificial reef project at Viking is now thriving with corals and marine life. Many corals have been rescued and reattached. You will find anemones, gorgonian sea fans, Scorpion fish, Lionfish, Clownfish and Batfish and unique nudibranch.
Organic Coral Rehabilitation
2018 – present
The Maya Bay Rehabilitation project is headed by CEO and Founder of Ocean Quest Global. This technique of replanting broken corals and rehabilitating reefs is 100% organic. Thus, if the corals die in the future, all that will remain will be natural rocks and coral skeletons. Additionally, no man-made structures are used and this is a proven effective and cheap method. You can read more here about it here.
Evidence shows that in years to come if the corals die or the man-made structure collapses, the debris will remain. We are partners with Ocean Quest Global which means we have special permission to grow our own coral nurseries. We are qualified to train divers the special techniques used in Maya Bay. Thus offering hands on experience in coral rehabilitation
You can dive the artificial reef all year round! Additionally we can conduct an organic coral workshop or course for you and your family!
2009 News – International Cleanup Day
In other 2009 News, Blue View coordinated a two day event for Project Aware International Clean Up Day in September. Working with SSI Green Fins, Project Aware and local businesses, we arrange beach and underwater cleanup events.
Last year we had over 100 volunteers join our three day cleanup and gathered 700 Kilograms of rubbish.
CLEAN-UP DAY 1
Why we did it
With the increase in tourism on this island we are seeing an increase in waste production. Furthermore, the island systems struggle to cope with the growing amount of trash produced by tourists and locals alike. Tourists even offered to join in cleaning Loh Dalum Beach in an effort that involved over 80 people.
How we organised it
Volunteers were divided into three groups, with water stations set up and chocolate brownies for volunteers at Sunflower Bar, Ciao Bella and Cabana Hotel . Over two hours we collected 1,326 Kilograms of rubbish which was divided into recyclable and non recyclable items and to reduce the amount of plastic. Rubbish was collected into builder’s sacks kindly donated by Spider Monkey Climbing.
How much we collected
The glass collected weighed 198.5 Kilograms with Recyclable rubbish (that can be processed on Koh Phi Phi) weighing 77.4 kilograms. The remaining rubbish was brought off the island to a facility in Bangkok.
Sunflower bar on Loh Dalum Beach was kind enough to provide a free barbecue for the tired volunteers.
CLEAN-UP DAY 2
On the 20th of September we organised a dive clean up where over 19 Volunteers came to help.
Why we did it
Nets and Plastics are devastating to the marine life in our ecosystem. The WWF estimates that over 100,000 whales, turtles, seals and birds die through ingestion of plastic bags entanglement. Unfortunately, plastic bags also resemble jellyfish which the turtle’s favorite food. Phi Phi is blessed with a healthy community of the endangered Hawks-bill Turtles. Their habitat is being threatened by the careless disposal of rubbish.
How we organised it
Firstly, we used a larger boat from Visa Diving alongside a long tail boat working side by side to bring rubbish brought up to the larger boat. Armed with gloves, mesh bags and knives and cutters, the divers traveled to Viking Dive Site. Divers worked together to remove netting, plastic bottles and other marine debris from the dive sites.
Blue View Divers Team and the Tourist Police operated lift bags bringing rubbish to the surface for the longtail boat to collect. Snorkel teams provided surface support to reduce the dangers on the divers having to ascend and descend alot.
In the end, we found a colony of Staghorn Corals tangled in nets. Our divers worked slowly removed the netting without breaking fragile corals which would take years to recuperate.
Underwater cleanups are so important
Discarded fishing nets and cages trap marine life such as turtles or sea snakes who breathe air. When they become entangled they can suffocate, unable to break free. This is a popular area for snorkelers coming to Koh Phi Phi and we want them to experience it at it’s best.
Nature gives back!
A treat at the end of the cleanup when two curious leopard sharks swam around the divers working on the reef who stopped to watch their graceful progress.
What we collected
One diver was our ‘reef watch monitor’ who collected fish and coral data to be submitted to Greenfins who monitor the health of marine life in our local waters.
We collected 680 Kilograms on the dive cleanup and all this would not have been possible without all the support rom volunteers and local businesses.
Blue View Divers would like to thank the following sponsors for helping make this project possible: Amico Restaurant, Aquamaster, Aquamundo, Aquanauts Scuba, Atul Keshav, Ayudhaya Bank, Barrakuda Diving, Ciao Bella,The Geoff Starr Fund, Ibiza Bar, Mama Resto, Panda Restaurant, Pearl Andaman, Phi Phi Bakery, Phi Phi Scuba Diving Center, Phi Phi Tourist Police, Scuba Schools International, Seafrog Diving, Sheryl and Tony Brown, Simon Collins, Spider Monkey Climbing, Sports Bar, Sunflower Bar, Unni’s Restaurant, Viking Divers and Visa Diving


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Guess what? It’s still blowing filthy onshore. North Bondi has some protection from the East nemesis winds, and a few little surfable(ish) waves. Nothing special though. Exposed beaches are 4-6 foot…just messy as hell.
The forecast says tomorrow afternoon the wind will kick around to the NE. Finally some clean waves will be on offer and that twitch will disappear.
I reckon the next 4 days will make up for the poor surf of the past 4 days. Cheer up.
Sydney’s 1st $900,000 artificial reef
NSW Government announced that construction of its first offshore artificial reef will begin soon. Only $900,000 is being spent on the reef and is being erected 1.2 kms off the Gap at Vaucluse. The reef is expected to greatly improve recreational fishing opportunities off Sydney. Damn those Fishos are smart…this is the 1st of 3 fishing reefs. So errrm, the obvious question is – how about an artificial reef at Bondi? The swell magnet will pump with something to break on…a 300 metre right off The Boot? Interested to hear everyone’s thoughts. (comment below)
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A boat skipper who recently pulled a dead whale shark to the dock from deep sea realised his mistake after the harbour authorities refused him to pay for his huge by-catch. The cost of the dead carcass may range between Rs 50,000 and Rs 75,000, officials of Karachi Fish Harbour Authority (KFHA) told Business Recorder on Saturday, adding that “the payment will never be made to the skipper to discourage such attempts in future.”
Pakistan is one of the signatory countries to the Convention in International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) to step up to daunt fishermen to land endangered marine species. Boat skipper Muhammad Juman was seeking a compensation for his by-catch, the officials said, adding that “KFHA confiscated the catch from him and decided not pay a single penny to him.”
Officials ruled out any other penalty that the authorities may impose on the skipper. “It is enough to let him regret his decision of pulling the shark to the harbour.” They said it is also a lesson for others to understand that their efforts may go in vain if they ever tried to sail back along with endangered species. The dead shark tangled accidentally in the net 70 nautical miles off Karachi coast close to Churna Island, Arabian Sea. The seafarers brought the whale shark, which weighted about 3 tons and measured about 14-15 feet, to harbour on Feb1, this year.
The KFHA officials said the skin of the shark has been sent Friday to Islamabad for stuffing after research experts dissected it to ascertain the reasons behind its death and know its age. “The skin has been dispatched for stuffing to Pakistan Museum of Natural History, which may take at least six months to complete,” they said, adding that the KFHA has also requested the museum to return it after stuffing to display it as a whale shark model at the harbour. The stuffed effigy may be displayed at Sindh Museum, Hyderabad, they said.
On February 7, 2012, the local fishermen trapped a dead whale shark which was 22-ton heavy and 11-meter long. The fishermen sold it for Rs 180,000. The berthing of the endangered species loaded criticism on Pakistan for weak government policies to protect such vulnerable species within its waters.
Whale Shark falls in the context of red-list of the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN), showing its perilous state. The biggest whale shark was caught at Baba Island of Keamari in 1947, which measured 36-feet long and weighted 50 tons. The mammoth catch still ranks the largest trap of whale shark in the world, according to Marine Fisheries Department. “Since 2006, at least 36 whale sharks have been killed in fishing operations along Pakistan coast,” said Technical Advisor of WWF-Pakistan, Muhammad Moazzam Khan.
There are no official statistics available on population of the gentle giant in the country, however a personal research of Moazzam Khan suggested that juveniles or sub-adults ranging between 2.5 feet and about 15 feet are the widely-killed species during fishing. The Fund showed concern over the fishermen’s practice of carrying the endangered spices to coasts for making quick bucks, instead of freeing them in open waters.


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Belize Aggressor III Captain’s Log
September 23-30, 2017
Sea State: Flat to choppy
Air Temp: 89F
Water Temp: 83F
Visibility: 80- 100Ft
Stewardess – Vanessa
Instructor – Daniel
Divemasters – Monique & Conway
This week’s guests came from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. Welcome Aboard Francois, Pia, Jim, Dianne, Liz, Werner, Monika, David, Rosemary, Carla, Peter, Robyn, Dan, Rich, Kim, and Katie.
Sunday Sept 24, 2017
Dive Sites: Sandy Slope & Amberhead North
We started the week off on the West side of Turneffe Atoll. After doing our weight and equipment checks, we ventured off into the beautiful waters of Belize to go exploring the dive site. Today we spotted everything with spots…spotted morays, spotted drums, spotted Eagle Rays, and spotted toadfish. We also saw several green morays, Pederson cleaning shrimp, yellow head jawfish, garden eels, razorfish, and peacock flounders. We also saw lots of schooling fish such as Creole wrasse, mahogany snappers, grunts, sergeant majors, and jacks. There were also some cool critters like lettuce sea slugs, a tiny yellow slug with a red spot, and a tiny orange slug.
Monday Sept 25, 2017
Dive Sites: Half Moon Caye Wall & Long Caye Wall
Monday morning, we woke up at Lighthouse Reef after doing our crossing from Turneffe during the night. We had some amazing dives today with cool shark and ray sightings. We saw several Caribbean Reef sharks, spotted Eagle Rays, and Southern stingrays. There were plenty of Nassau and yellow fin groupers, and several barracuda swam by to check us out. In the sand and grass we found shrimps, razorfish, garden eels, crabs, and head shield slugs.
Tuesday September 26, 2017
Dive Sites: Blue Hole & Silver Caves
Today at the Great Blue Hole, we had a treat when we spotted a Great hammerhead swimming along the edge of the dropoff…AMAZING!!! Though the blue hole itself is always a highlight, today it was extra special. Next, we went over to Half Moon Caye for our island excursion and went to check out the nesting grounds for the red footed booby birds and magnificent frigate birds. We also saw some hermit crabs, iguanas, and other lizards.
We finished of the day diving at Silver Caves, where were saw a hawksbill turtle, green and spotted morays, several neck crabs, and lots of blennies. There was also a lot of fish activity with dozens of trunkfish, black durgeons, Creole wrasse, sergeant majors, blue and brown chromis, and jacks. We were also playing around with some tarpon.
Wednesday September 27, 2017
Dive Sites: Chain wall & Painted Wall
We spent Wednesday diving Chain Wall and Painted Wall. The sharks and Eagle rays were not shy today…we had some awesome up close and personal encounters with 4 different Caribbean Reef sharks and saw some Eagle rays zigzagging around. There were also very curious and friendly barracuda and groupers. At the end of the dive we watched a Southern stingray feeding in the sand, and a nurse shark buzzing over the reef.
Thursday September 28, 2017
Dive Sites: Cathedral & Front Porch
Today, during our surface interval at Cathedral, we were visited by 2 separate pods of dolphins. Several of our passengers jumped in and checked off “snorkeling with dolphins” from their bucket lists. On the dive, we found a huge free swimming green moray, several large black groupers, barracudas, and Creole wrasse while diving along the wall. In the shallows we found some skeleton shrimp, neck crabs, and tiny nudibranchs.
At lunch we motored back to Turneffe to finish off the day at Front Porch, where we saw some spotted Eagle Rays, spotted toadfish, and several green morays.
Friday September 29, 2017
Dive Site: Amberhead South
The final day of diving was great finish to a great week of diving. We hopped in at 6:30am and then again at 9:00am before heading back to the dock. On our final dives, we saw white spotted toadfish, moray eels, flounder, jacks, groupers, barracudas, and tons of reef fish all around.
Congrats to Liz on reaching her 100th dive this week.
Congrats to Dianne, Jim, Peter, Carla, and Katie on becoming Nitrox divers.
Congrats to Rich on completing his Advanced Open Water course.
Congrats to our IRON DIVERS this week: Robyn, Dianne, Kim, Peter, Monika, Werner, and Rosemary.
Congrats to Peter and Carla on their 5th Wedding Anniversary! Thank you for coming to celebrate with us.
Thank you all for a GREAT week!
EAT, SLEEP, & DIVE!


Sperm whale mother and albino baby swimming off the coast of Portugal
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Celebrating a whale of a tale
A sperm whale surfaces in the North Atlantic as her young albino calf swims beside her. It's a rare photo opportunity as these majestic creatures spend much of their time deep down, over 1,000ft below the waves. On this day in 1841, a young Herman Melville set out from New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA, on a whaling voyage to the South Pacific which would help inspire his masterwork Moby-Dick. The day is celebrated at the New Bedford Whaling Museum with an annual marathon public reading of the novel - an event that lasts 25 hours.
Though the calf in the photo may resemble Melville's fearsome white sperm whale, the whale family is nowhere near Massachusetts or the Pacific. They’re on the other side of the planet - in Portuguese waters - and we had to go a fair distance to find them. Little Moby Jr is a rare sight, since albinism only appears in about one in 10,000 mammal births and the worldwide sperm whale population stands at only about 300,000.


Almarin provides navigational aids for BIMEP
Almarin has supplied the maritime beaconing for Biscay Marine Energy Platform (BIMEP) in Bizkaia, Spain. Almarin supplied seven G3000TL buoys with 11m3 hull volume, sufficient capacity to handle the sturdy moorings in 90m depth. Equipped with self contained beacons, radar reflectors and AIS systems (providing realtime data for ships equipped with ECDIS), these buoys ensure that the perimeter of the BIMEP area is well marked.
BIMEP is an initiative of the Basque Energy Entity (EVE) to promote the development of offshore alternative energies. The BIMEP platform provides unequalled facilities for testing and validation of offshore energy generators. Located off the coast of Armintza, close to Bilbao, the infrastructure is designed for 20 MW of capacity and takes advantage of an existing grid tie, originally built for a nuclear power plant that was never completed. The installation of the buoys was carried out at the beginning of this month by Zumaia Offshore operating from the port of Bermeo.


Reefs at Risk in the Middle East
Nearly two-thirds of the coral reefs in the Middle East region are at risk from local threats (i.e., coastal development, overfishing/destructive fishing, marine-based pollution, and/or watershed-based pollution). The greatest pressure is in the Persian Gulf, where more than 85 percent of reefs are considered threatened, while the figure for the Red Sea is just over 60 percent. Areas of low threat in the central western Red Sea and along the northern Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia may be some of the most extensive areas of reefs on the continental margin under low threat anywhere outside of Australia.
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SAN RAFAEL / Firm fined $735,000 for dredge releases
Published 4:00 am, Thursday, August 17, 2006
Dutra Dredging Co. will pay $735,000 for illegally releasing dredged material in unapproved ocean areas, including in marine sanctuary waters, federal officials said Wednesday.
The company will pay a $450,000 Environmental Protection Agency fine and $285,000 to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to fund protection and restoration projects in the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.
Investigators determined that from 1999 to 2003, Dutra leaked or dumped a total of more than 200,000 cubic yards of dredged material on 200 separate occasions. Once, it was found, a Dutra vessel also went directly through the 3-mile-diameter Farallon Islands exclusion zone, which is intended to protect seabirds and marine animals.
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The incidents occurred when Dutra's vessels, which are 300 feet long and 60 feet wide, were headed to the EPA-designated deep ocean disposal site, 55 miles off San Francisco's coast and in nearly 10,000 feet of water.
The violations were connected to eight U.S. Army Corps of Engineer maintenance projects that removed 2.5 million cubic yards of sediment from navigation channels in the Oakland and Richmond harbors and Bodega Bay.
Harry Stewart, Dutra's president, said the releases of material were accidental, and that the company had spent millions of dollars to repair its equipment and upgrade its monitoring equipment.


By: Nancy Wallace, Director of the NOAA Marine Debris Program
This year has been a busy one for the NOAA Marine Debris Program, and it was particularly special, as 2016 marked our ten-year anniversary. Looking back on the last decade, I am proud of what we have been able to accomplish and how much we’ve grown both in size and impact. This past year also marked the first under our most recent Strategic Plan. Following this ambitious guide, we have worked toward making our vision— an end to marine debris— a reality.
I am proud of the Program’s achievements to address marine debris and although we still have a lot of work to do, I am confident in our direction for the future, learning from the past decade of excellent marine debris work. With that, I am pleased to present the NOAA Marine Debris Program’s 2016 Accomplishments Report, which highlights some of our major accomplishments over the past fiscal year.


Fisheries genetics researchers will find invaluable the thirty-eight peer-reviewed contributions in this book, presented at the 20th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium qGenetics of Subpolar Fish and Invertebrates, q held in May 2002 in Juneau, Alaska. Looming over concerns of lost fisheries stocks and persistent erosion of genetic variability are predictions of global warming, which may further tax genetic resources. One consequence is an increased reliance on genetic applications to many aspects of fisheries management, aquaculture, and conservation. The contributions in this book are important to modern fisheries science and genetics, and illustrate the evolution of the field over the past decade. The improved technology provides tools to address increasingly complicated problems in traditional applications and ecological and behavioral studies. The union between molecular and quantitative genetics, where many of the major questions about population structure and evolution remain unanswered, will also benefit from the new technologies.study; North American chum salmon predominated in the central Gulf of Alaska ( 145abW) while Asian chum predominated along ... if migration paths of geographically proximal lineages, regardless of their genetic similarities, follow similar routes. ... Climate in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea play an important role in salmon production (Beamish aamp; Bouillon 1993). ... This Bering-Aleutian Salmon International Survey (BASIS) program12 calls for four one-month surveys (spring, summer, anbsp;...
|Title||:||Genetics of Subpolar Fish and Invertebrates|
|Author||:||Anthony J. Gharrett, Richard G. Gustafson, Jennifer L. Nielsen, James E. Seeb, Lisa W. Seeb, William W. Smoker, Gary H. Thorgaard, Richard L. Wilmot|
|Publisher||:||Springer Science & Business Media - 2012-12-06|


Bob Hollis took up scuba diving in the late 1950s, and his love for diving led to an interest in underwater photography, a hobby that required him to create his own specialized equipment.
Educated as a mechanical engineer, Bob Hollis designed and manufactured underwater photography equipment in the machine shop behind his Hayward, California sporting goods store. Before long, divers were asking Mr. Hollis to make equipment for them, and a successful mail order business started. In 1972, Mr. Hollis founded Oceanic, starting out with a dozen diving products, including the original photography equipment. He then acquired a manufacturer in nearby Belmont, instantly giving Oceanic a full line of diving equipment, with an innovative line of instrumentation products. The company introduced the DataMax, the first mechanical depth gauge with automatic digital timer, propelling Oceanic to the forefront of dive equipment suppliers.
Bob Hollis helped introduce the concept of an electronic dive computer, revolutionizing diving safety and which is now a mandatory piece of equipment for all divers. Mr. Hollis considers his role in developing this technology his proudest professional accomplishment.
A true pioneer in the industry, he led the first dive travel tours, introduced scuba equipment into many resort locations, and explored and filmed the wreck of the Andrea Doria, with his efforts rewarded with induction into the Diving Hall of Fame. Mr. Hollis served as a past president of DEMA (Diving Equipment & Marketing Association).


Story at a glance:
- By 2040 an estimated 29 million metric tons of plastic will flow into the ocean each year.
- Outdoor furniture company Vestre has launched Ogoori, a company that collects marine plastic to be repurposed in furniture design.
- Coast, a bench made from ownerless marine plastics collected by Ogoori, is the first of its kind.
In 2010 an estimated 8 million metric tons of plastic was dumped into the ocean. By 2040 it is estimated that 29 million metric tons of plastic will flow into the ocean each year. Jan Christian Vestre wants to change that.
His company Vestre, the Norwegian outdoor furniture company started by his grandfather in 1947, has launched Ogoori, a startup that gathers marine plastic to recycle and reuse in furniture design. The initiative takes waste collected from the ocean and transforms it into plastic for brands to use in future products.
Take Coast, for instance—a bench from Vestre made from ownerless marine plastics collected by Ogoori, set to be released in 2021.
“It’s an inspiring and gratifying task to design a bench that uses plastic collected from beaches with the help of volunteers,” said Allan Hagerup, who designed the bench, in a press release. “It feels really good to have created the first bench from this material for Vestre, and to contribute to sustainable development with a product that will be accessible to everyone.”
Here are a few design details that make Vestre’s Coast bench—the first of its kind—the perfect waterfront spot.
1. Recycled Plastic Materials
The seat of the bench is made from Ogoori plastic waste collected from Norwegian beaches that is then submerged into a hot-dip galvanized and powder-coated steel frame made to endure the outdoors.
2. Ocean-Inspired Design
Besides looking to the water for its materials, Coast also borrows from the marine environment for its shape. From the front, the bench resembles a boat’s hull, while each individual row of plastic looks as if it is floating on water.
“The design has been kept as simple as possible so that it doesn’t take focus away from the marine plastic,” said Hagerup.
3. Sustainable For Years to Come
“When the material is of variable quality, it is important to consider what happens to the plastic over time outdoors,” Hagerup says. “To prevent erosion, the plastic parts must be replaced at regular intervals, through a deposit system or through a lease with regular servicing by Vestre. The frame is therefore shaped so that it is simple to replace the plastic parts as needed.”
Then, of course, the replaced plastic will be recycled again and turned into new products.


Spawning Behavior in the Labrid, Halichoeres Bivittatus, on Artificial and Natural Substrates in Onslow Bay, North Carolina, with Notes on Early Life History
We documented reproductive activity in Halichoeres bivittatus close to the northernmost range of its distribution in the western Atlantic. Observations were made by means of Scuba at a mean depth of 15 m on a reef system consisting of a 10-train car artificial reef and adjacent limestone substrate. The train cars were deployed in 1986 on substrate ranging from limestone colonized by macroalgae to a thin layer of sand over hard substrate. Spawning behavior consisted of the formation of temporary territories defended by terminal phase males. Peak reproductive activity occurred at midday during the months of May and June at temperatures of 21.5–24.5°C. Pair spawning between an initial phase female and a terminal phase male was observed on artificial and natural reef substrata, but interference spawning by small initial phase individuals was observed only on the natural substrate. This difference in reproductive strategy may be due to the ability of small initial phase males to interfere with pair spawnings only on substrates lacking much vertical relief (<0.5 m) and providing macroalgal cover. Fertilized eggs were obtained by artificial fertilization in the laboratory. Eggs and larvae were reared in tanks and development up to 5 days after fertilization is briefly described.
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Publication date: 1994-09-01
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Mercury Poisoning: Dolphins and Humans Impacted
Humans and Marine animals alike are affected by high mercury levels from the world's oceans. That's because fish and other sea creatures are the main sources of mercury exposure in humans, according to researchers from Florida Atlantic University (FAU).
In a recent study of dolphins living in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL), Florida, researchers found high enough levels of mercury that they were prompted to investigate the potential risks humans face because they consume the same seafood dolphins eat, according to the university's news release.
The most toxic form of mercury is known as methylmercury, and through the processes of biomagnification it makes its way up the food chain, increasing in toxicity at each stage. It follows then, as methylmercury builds up in fish and shellfish, those that eat the fish – dolphins and humans, for example – are at an increased risk.
"This research exemplifies the role of dolphins as an animal sentinel in identifying a public health hazard," Adam Schaefer, one of the study researchers and FAU Harbor Branch epidemiologist, explained in the university's release. "It is a unique and critical example of closing the loop between animal and human health."
When preforming follow-up tests of humans living near the IRL, researchers confirmed they too exhibited high levels of mercury, much of which was due to the consumption of local fish and shellfish. Mercury is a global concern and known to affect one's memory, visual-motor skills, and cognitive development, among other side effects. This is of particular concern for pregnant women, since the developing nervous system of a fetus is highly vulnerable to mercury exposure.
"Fish consumption is recommended for a healthy diet and has many benefits including a reduction in the risk of developing cardiovascular disease," John Reif, Colorado State University research professor and collaborator on the study, added in the release. "Pregnant women can balance the risks and benefits of seafood consumption by continuing to eat fish, but avoiding fish caught in the Indian River Lagoon where the levels of mercury are higher."
Their findings were recently published in the journal Veterinary Science.
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