by Ret Talbot | Mar 31, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes, Syndicated Marine Aquarium News
Popular aquarium fish included in a petition to list 81 marine species for Endangered Species Act protection The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is moving forward with the process that could lead to the listing of the Banggai Cardinalfish under the Endangered...
by Ret Talbot | Mar 8, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
As the catastrophic spread of Indo-Pacific lionfish continues in Western Atlantic and Caribbean waters, Florida legislators propose new laws to stop aquarium-trade importations By Ret Talbot Images courtesy of REEF I remember seeing my first lionfish in the wild. It...
by Ret Talbot | Jan 31, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
Landmark new paper says that a sustainable marine aquarium trade may be a key to the future of healthy coral reef areas By Ret Talbot The fate of coral reefs worldwide is now a well-publicized, front-page, six o’clock news crisis. In fact, three marine scientists just...
by Ret Talbot | Dec 18, 2013 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
An Aquarist’s Notes: Turbulence in Hawaii I first went to Hawaii on assignment for CORAL Magazine in 2010, and for the better part of four years I have covered that state’s aquarium fishery. I expected to find a fishery full of complicated regulations and even more...
by Ret Talbot | Dec 18, 2013 | CORAL Excerpt, Marine
A new beginning for Hawaii’s Marine Aquarium Fishery on Kona by Ret Talbot Excerpt from CORAL Magazine, January/February 2014 After years of rumblings, annual temblors with threats of legislation, and constant prophesies of doom for Hawaiian aquarium fishers—as...
