Story originally posted by UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries Dr. Amanda Vincent, Professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries has been awarded the Le Cren medal by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI). This medal is awarded to one or more individuals who have made a lifelong contribution to …
Everything started when I began surfing at Clube de Surfe Faro (in the Algarve, Portugal). During summer activities at the club, we went snorkelling in the Ria Formosa and our instructor told us about the seahorses that lived there and how the seahorses were in danger. I then had an idea to save the seahorses so that we could always live with these magnificent creatures, but how could I put this idea into practice? When I started at my new school in September, I found out that we were going to celebrate the Day of the Animal. The school chose the seahorse. My school is also part of a wider school project called the ‘Blue Project’ which helps us to learn more about the ocean and sea creatures.… Read more
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This month’s featured iSeahorse observation highlights a champion hide-and-seeker, Denise’s pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus denise), courtesy of iSeahorse user maractwin. With their petite size and puppy dog eyes, they seem more like seadogs than seahorses. That adorable face kind of blows its cover, but imagine how seamlessly this fish would blend in with its back turned! In fact, the photographer nearly missed out on snapping the shot, as he didn’t even realize it was there until his dive guide pointed it out to him.… Read more
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 …