WA state has banned octopus farming. CA is on its way. Now there are plans to introduce a nationwide bill.

I’m circulating an open letter signed by myself and ~80 other scientists in support.

If you are a US academic who wants to read/sign, comment or DM me.

Please share. 🙏🐙

My incredibly talented wife has started a page for her cute marine life cartoons.

She’s going to use her art to portray fishes and other underrated wildlife in a new light as well as raise money for causes to help protect them.

Please follow her on instagram @bonnetheadstudios.

Becoming trapped in fishing gear can so sicken whales that they are no longer able to reproduce. Some entangled right whales become so emaciated that they sink rather than float when dead;“Essentially they are dead whales swimming,”

eco-business.com/news/saving-wh…

We've made our mark but, who cares? (Rt if you care). Plastic pollution at the scale of the phytoplankton. Every inshore plankton sample I collect contains microplastics. (This was sampled yesterday) ZEISS Microscopy

An ageing #manatee has lived alone in a tank in #Florida for a year, repeatedly swimming the same pattern & banging on viewing glass.

'He needs to be removed immediately. It can be done, it’s a question of whether there's a will to do it.' @UrgentSeas

au.news.yahoo.com/captive-animal…

NOAA Fisheries AK declared opilio crab has been 'overfished'

But still provides industrial trawlers a limit of 3.4M crab and the fleet is killing an 'observed' amount of 85,000 per week.

Alaska's fisheries will never recover with incoherent and inconsistent management.

Is Japan's decision to expand whaling a message to show it will not bow to pressure to further regulate commercial catch of at-risk species, e.g. bluefin tuna?

Japan consumes 80% of Atlantic/Pacific bluefin tuna & is second biggest tuna fishing nation.

au.news.yahoo.com/surprising-the…

Today is #EndangeredSpeciesDay

Biodiversity is in decline. Over 157,100 species are on The IUCN Red List with more than 44,000 species threatened with extinction.

We must continue to raise awareness and take action by prioritising biodiversity to safeguard our future.

Undercover in a shark fin trafficking ring.

4 years of investigating jaguar parts trafficking led Andrea Crosta to a grim realization: The same smugglers were often involved in other illegal enterprises, such as wildlife products & shark fin smuggling.

news.mongabay.com/2024/05/underc…

Milestone reached ☑️: Yesterday the first step of the #StopFinningEU Impact Assessment – the Call for Evidence for a #FinBanNow closed at midnight. 🇪🇺🦈 Thanks to everyone who used this unique opportunity to have a say for #sharks 🙏 bit.ly/3IcoilQ

'This isn’t about some land grab on fishing rights or fishing sovereignty, this is a particular environmental protection that we believe is the right thing to do.' 👏👏👏

UK govt stands firm on sandeel ban to protect puffins & other ocean wildlife.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Man fined just $600 for killing & decapitating protected great white shark in New Zealand, where it's illegal to hunt, kill or harm them.

His defence? He claims he didn't know it was a great white shark. Even though he kept the head. 🤯😤

stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350281…

70% of shark 🦈 meat sold in Australian fish markets & seafood shops is mislabelled including from threatened species.

100+ million sharks are killed globally each year for meat, liver oil, fins & skins, as bycatch & in shark nets to 'protect' humans.

natureworldnews.com/articles/61685…

North Atlantic right whale “Skittle” was seen without her calf in March and April. Right whale calves depend on their mothers for nutrition. Since researchers saw Skittle alone twice, the calf is presumed dead: bit.ly/44N3jAQ

Oh look, Thai Union Group have reacted to our report accusing it of #greenwashing with a super bland statement. Lovely sounding words that contradict the reality in our ocean. And what a shame they are using The Nature Conservancy as a figleaf to cover their misdeeds!
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Orcas breathe just once between dives.

The study found that resident Orcas mostly make shallow dives (less than 1 minute). The longest dive recorded was 8.5 minutes by an adult male.

phys.org/news/2024-05-k…