by Ret Talbot | Feb 24, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Special to CORAL Magazine Commercial fisherman Jay Lovell pled no contest last week to charges brought against him based on the most public altercation between aquarium fishers and anti-aquarium trade activists in years in Hawaii’s contentious aquarium fishery. The...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 23, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
Where pesticidal chemicals often fail or prove deadly to many organisms in reef aquaria, the common Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp, Lysmata amboinensis, has been found to be a highly effective biocontrol against all live stages of ectoparasites that kill and...
by CORAL Magazine | Feb 19, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
via Scripps Institution of Oceanography / UC San Diego – February 17th, 2015 While researching the two known species of seadragons as part of an effort to understand and protect the exotic and delicate seahorse-like fish, scientists at Scripps Institution of...
by Brandon Rutherford | Feb 17, 2015 | CORAL - Brandon Rutherford, CORAL Excerpt, Marine, News & Notes
Fresh out of graduate school, I began my career as a public school teacher full of enthusiasm. I wanted to share my passion for learning science with the next generation of students. My dream fell short, though, when I experienced the reality of working in an urban...
by Ret Talbot | Feb 16, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
On Tuesday, February 17th, 2015, the Hawaii County Council’s Committee on Agriculture, Water and Energy Sustainability will consider two aquarium fishery related bills: Bills 24 and 318. Aquarium trade experts say the passage of either of these bills could...
by Ret Talbot | Feb 12, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
HONOLULU — Five Hawaii aquarium-fishery related bills were heard in the House Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources and Hawaiian Affairs yesterday, but decisions on all bills were deferred to today, Thursday February 12th. Testimony regarding all of the House bills...
