Advancing marine conservation
Guest blog by Dr. Diego C. Luzzatto, CONICET- National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Argentina. iSeahorse National Seahorse Expert. This story begins many years ago, when I was a child. I remember taking a slow and dusty train to the mountains in Bariloche from Buenos Aires that stopped in every town of Patagonia. One of …
Kessler, R. (Mar 27, 2018) ‘Annihilation trawling’: Q&A with marine biologist Amanda Vincent. Mongabay Series: Oceans. Mongabay. (Article) https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/annihilation-trawling-qa-with-marine-biologist-amanda-vincent/… Read more
Amos, H. (Mar 21, 2018) Coral reefs suffering in Philippines despite outlawing damaging fishing practices. UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries. (Article) https://news.ubc.ca/2018/03/16/coral-reefs-suffering-in-philippines-despite-outlawing-damaging-fishing-practices/… Read more
By Lily Stanton and Do Huu Hoang (Part two of a three part series, a photo essay) After discovering that more than 2 million seahorses were landed annually as bycatch by the many trawl boats operating in Vietnamese waters in the late 1990s, we (Project Seahorse) returned to uncover what, if anything, has changed in …
Stratoni is a small village located in the north-eastern part of Greece. Most of the local community works in a mining factory located near the shore line. The landscape is beautiful with irregular mineral rich mountains that rest in the sometimes rough shores of the Mediterranean waters. On arriving in Greece in the midst of …
In September, Tanvi (our great PhD student from Chennai) and I spent two weeks in India roaming around the fisheries landing areas of the southern Tamil Nadu coast, the part that faces Sri Lanka. It was enthralling and appalling, the sort of work I really enjoy, even when it sickens me. Our goal was to …
By Amanda Vincent I may have been shivering with cold, but my heart was leaping with excitement … I was face to face with the Patagonian seahorse, Hippocampus patagonicus, and it was magical. The species was only described in 2004 and is assessed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It is still only known …
Stanton, L. (Jan 15, 2018) Now you see it, now you don’t: the troubled tale of the estuarine pipefish. Lost and Found Nature. (Article) http://www.lostandfoundnature.com/blog/2018/01/15/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-the-troubled-tale-of-the-estuarine-pipefish/… Read more
