by CORAL Magazine | Feb 14, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
High-Tech Lab Sets Sail in Hunt for Heat-Resistant Corals via the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) Marine scientists are using portable ship-borne aquaria in the search for heat-resistant corals that could survive warming ocean temperatures caused by...
by CORAL Magazine | Jan 6, 2020 | CORAL - James Lawrence, CORAL Excerpt, Marine, News & Notes
EDITOR’S PAGE “All we can do is stick to the science and facts…” We may as well call it the Tang War, as all sides in the battle over the future of collecting aquarium fishes in the Hawaiian Islands are looking to Zebrasoma flavescens to prove their case. In a...
by CORAL Magazine | Jan 2, 2020 | Marine, News & Notes
Announced by Great Barrier Reef Legacy The world’s first Living Coral Biobank Project is being established on the Australian coast near the waters of the threatened Great Barrier Reef. As coral reefs worldwide decline due to climate change, severe storm events and...
by CORAL Magazine | Nov 26, 2019 | Marine, News & Notes
Submitted on November 12th, 2019, and released over the past weekend, PIJAC has submitted a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for Hawaii’s Marine Aquarium Fishery. This represents the latest milestone in efforts to reopen Hawai’i’s marine...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 28, 2019 | Marine, News & Notes
via MASNA Evaluating the risk of lionfishes in the marine aquarium trade becoming invasive species From a paper by Timothy J. Lyons, Quentin M. Tuckett, and Jeffrey E. Hill Introduction The well-developed global trade in marine ornamental species supports collectors,...
by CORAL Magazine | Oct 23, 2019 | Marine, News & Notes
The New York Times is reporting the “return of the Blob,” a vast expanse of overheated oceanic water that poses the danger of severe coral bleaching in the Hawaiian Islands. The story is reported by Kendra Pierre-Lewis in the Times of October 21, 2019 and...
