by CORAL Magazine | Feb 24, 2015 | Marine, News & Notes
It is with profound sadness that CORAL Magazine announces the death of Denise Nielsen Tackett, 67, a long-time senior contributor and one of the world’s most-respected photographers of undersea marine life. A note from her husband and co-author Larry P. Tackett...
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...
