by Ret Talbot | Sep 5, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Special to CORAL from Ret Talbot’s Good Catch Blog, September 3, 2014 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) found that the orange clownfish (also commonly called the percula clownfish and bearing...
by CORAL Magazine | Aug 30, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
Being at MACNA has its rewards, like being in the room when speaker Rufus Kimura showed off droves of captive-bred Genicanthus personatus, the Masked Angelfish, one of the “holy grails” which was last bred by Karen Brittain over 10 years ago; I wish I had...
by Ret Talbot | Aug 29, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, CORAL Excerpt, Marine, News & Notes
Widespread reports of an unprecedented recruitment of reef fish juveniles in the Hawaiian Islands By Ret Talbot “My eyes feel full when looking at this many fish,” says Pauline Fiene, a veteran diving guide with Maui-based Mike Severns Diving. “[My eyes] almost itch;...
by CORAL Magazine | Aug 29, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
via WAMAS, 8-27-2014 The Washington DC Area Marine Aquarist Society (WAMAS) is excited to announce that MACNA® 2015 (the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America) will take place on September 4th, 5th, and 6th of 2015 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel,...
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 29, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
via NOAA – August 27th, 2014 NOAA lists 20 coral species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act Contact: Connie Barclay (301) 427-8003 (202) 441-2398 (Cell) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 27, 2014 NOAA announced today it will afford Endangered Species Act...
by Ret Talbot | Aug 7, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
by Ret Talbot – The Good Catch Blog The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) missed a mid-July deadline regarding the listing of the Banggai cardinalfish [Pterapogon kauderni] under the Endangered Species List (ESA). Today a NMFS spokesperson confirmed the...
