by Ret Talbot | Aug 24, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
by Ret Talbot, via The Good Catch Blog The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that they will not list the “orange clownfish” (Amphiprion percula), known in the aquarium trade as the Percula Clownfish, as threatened or endangered under the...
by Ret Talbot | Apr 30, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
Test Results Refute Mercury Scare In Frozen Fish Food by Ret Talbot Two weeks ago, Thomas Brown of Thomas Vision Reef reported unconfirmed test results showing that “one of the top three frozen fish foods” had dangerously high concentrations of mercury in it....
by Ret Talbot | Apr 23, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
While I couldn’t make the test results or the University that did the testing public I did share the results and the University with Ret Talbot. Who wrote an article with is take this situation and the data behind it [sic]. Now I was painted as the man who cried wolf...
by Ret Talbot | Apr 20, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Crying Wolf: Mercury in Aquarium Fish Foods, Social Media and the Controversy that Shouldn’t Have Been by Ret Talbot Read Part II of this Report: Mercury Megadose? No Proof Yet Read Part III of this Report: Test Results Refute Mercury Scare in Frozen Fish Food...
by Ret Talbot | Feb 25, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
HONOLULU Hearings for two Hawaii aquarium fishery-related bills are scheduled for Friday, February 26th, in the House Committee on the Judiciary. The two bills are House Bill 483 (HB 483), which authorizes administrative inspections within the West Hawaii Regional...
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...
