by Ret Talbot | Oct 26, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Friday, October 24th, 2014, the O’ahu aquarium fishery rules package was approved unanimously by the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) during its regular fourth Friday meeting in Honolulu. The rules package, which was introduced at the request of the...
by Ret Talbot | Sep 17, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
How Many Wild Orange Clownfish Does the Aquarium Trade Harvest? As we reported last week, the Percula or Orange Clownfish (Amphiprion percula) is now in status review with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service...
by Ret Talbot | Sep 5, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Special to CORAL from Ret Talbot’s Good Catch Blog, September 3, 2014 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) found that the orange clownfish (also commonly called the percula clownfish and bearing...
by Ret Talbot | Sep 5, 2014 | Marine
Underwater altercation when fish collector and group of anti-aquarium activists meet goes to trial Earlier this week, aquarium fisherman Jay Lovell pleaded not guilty in Hawaii to charges of “terroristic threatening” in a widely publicized altercation between Lovell...
by Ret Talbot | Aug 29, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, CORAL Excerpt, Marine, News & Notes
Widespread reports of an unprecedented recruitment of reef fish juveniles in the Hawaiian Islands By Ret Talbot “My eyes feel full when looking at this many fish,” says Pauline Fiene, a veteran diving guide with Maui-based Mike Severns Diving. “[My eyes] almost itch;...
