by Matt Pedersen | Mar 12, 2021 | Marine, News & Notes
Due to ongoing pandemic concerns, MACNA will again be held as a virtual event in 2021, with a plan to return to an in-person format in 2022. via Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (MASNA) MACNA 2021 now virtual, MACNA in Atlanta, GA to be rescheduled, MACNA...
by Matt Pedersen | Mar 4, 2021 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
Red Arowana or Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus) is one of the world’s most expensive cultivated ornamental fishes, and is an endangered species. Image copyright Japan’ Fireworks/Shutterstock. New federal legislation before Congress would change the US...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 1, 2021 | Marine, News & Notes
Oceanic Whitetip Shark, Carcharhinus longimanus, accompanied by Pilot Fish, Naucrates doktor, Red Sea. Image: Peter Koelbl (Wiki Commons: peter-koelbl.de) Long considered among the apex predators of the world’s seas, oceanic sharks and rays are vanishing at rate...
by Matt Pedersen | Jan 16, 2021 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, Marine, News & Notes
After years of relentless attempts to legislate Hawaii’s legal marine aquarium fishery out of existence, anti-aquarium trade activists, with the support of big environmental non-profits, have succeeded in officially closing what some consider to be the most...
by CORAL Magazine | Jan 8, 2021 | Marine, News & Notes
Farewell to Bob Fenner and Jack Randall: Looking Back at 2020 For many, 2020 was the worst of years, with many people suffering grievous losses. The CORAL family said farewell to the much-loved Bob Fenner, and to the world’s greatest reef fish ichthyologist Dr....
by CORAL Magazine | Dec 18, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
Midnight Snapper (Macolor macularis), younger specimen with the potential to live for many decades. Image: Rickard Zerke/Wiki Commons An 81-year-old Midnight Snapper caught off the coast of Western Australia has taken the title of the oldest tropical reef fish...
