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Thursday, May 31, 2018
The first land-walking vertebrates may have emerged from salty estuaries
May rains bring nutrients that could fuel red tide in Southwest Florida
Hayes wades into estuary erosion problem in South Brighton
Comments sought on revised long-range plan for Delaware Estuary
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Climate change increasing risks of lightning-ignited fires
Fires ignited by lightning have and will likely continue to increase across the Mediterranean and temperate regions in the Southern Hemisphere under a warmer climate, according to a new study co-led by a Portland State University researcher.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Haikou offers easy access to nature at its finest and most beautiful
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MPC students learn about coral reefs and mangroves
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Behind the Scenes of a Close Crocodile Encounter
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Invisible barrier on ocean surface can reduce carbon uptake
An invisible layer of biological compounds on the sea surface reduces the rate at which carbon dioxide gas moves between the atmosphere and the oceans, scientists have reported.
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Sea Shepherd’s R/V Martin Sheen Cleared to Enter Canada
SEA SHEPHERD’S R/V MARTIN SHEEN CLEARED TO ENTER CANADA – AFTER PROTRACTED 2 DAY EXAMINATION BY CANADIAN CUSTOMS
May 28th, 2018 – Victoria, BC, Canada – It was a long voyage for the eight crew of the R/V MARTIN SHEEN, sailing from Honolulu on May 10th and arriving in Victoria B.C. on May 26th. The yacht’s crew reported their ETA to Canadian Customs (CBSA) days in advance and were not expecting any issues. In addition, Sea Shepherd Ship Operations ran through the arrival protocol with CBSA on two separate phone calls, confirming arrival procedures were correct.
The R/V MARTIN SHEEN is a US Registered Private Yacht, it is not a commercial vessel. For Captain Chris Holt of Boston, MA, it was a delivery voyage, as his mission was to deliver the boat to British Columbia in preparation for Sea Shepherd’s third year of Operation Virus Hunter.
Four Canadian Customs officers boarded the MARTIN SHEEN shortly after arrival at 7 pm local time Saturday evening, and did not come with a smile or a welcome.
The captain and crew were detained onboard and questioned for five straight hours. This is highly unusual for a Private Yacht or a Commercial Vessel.
Canadian Customs Officers demanded to know why the ship was in Canadian waters and the yacht’s intentions in the region. Captain Holt stated he was just the delivery skipper, and was unfamiliar and not in a position to comment on the vessel owner’s (Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s) future plans.
CBSA accused the skipper of lying or avoiding the true nature of the voyage. Captain Holt told the officers that details of past campaigns could be found online but that he would not be involved in the upcoming campaign. CBSA officers continued to state they did not believe his story.
CBSA wanted to know if Dr. Alexandra Morton would be boarding the vessel and when. Captain Holt said he did not have information on her intentions, and told them that from what he knew the campaign was a research mission.
One of the Customs officers asked him why Sea Shepherd would be doing research when the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) already does this type of research.
The officers then implied that the MARTIN SHEEN was not a legitimate yacht and would have to be cleared as a commercial vessel, a category that would present restrictions, a great deal of paperwork as well as burdensome reporting procedures during the vessel’s stay in British Columbian waters.
After five hours, they allowed seven of the crew to clear and to go ashore. They took Captain Holt’s passport and told him he would be detained onboard until Monday morning.
On Monday morning Sea Shepherd Director of Ship Operations and Campaigns Locky MacLean arrived just in time at 1100 Hours PST at the Customs House on Blanshard St. in Victoria for an examination into the issue.
The examination at Customs Headquarters lasted two hours as Locky relayed to one CBSA officer the nature of the vessel’s voyage and upcoming campaign, emphasizing that all of Sea Shepherd’s past voyages in the region were highly publicized and information was publicly available. He added that Sea Shepherd did not intend to keep any of the vessel’s movements or purpose a secret from CBSA, but questioned the necessity for added monitoring of the yacht’s movements and the notion that further independent science into the effects of salmon farms on migratory salmon and forage fish was not needed in BC.
During the hearing, media began calling Victoria Customs office and this was relayed to Captain MacLean by a CBSA officer who asked if he was expecting a call.
The officer issued minimal extra requirements including the filling of a General Declaration, and additional reporting and check-in obligations imposed throughout the voyage.
Finally, CBSA granted clearance with one officer stating it was best to avoid a situation that could become a headache for Ottawa.
The MARTIN SHEEN was granted clearance into Canada at 3:30 pm on May 28th. It had taken 44 hours, a record for the MARTIN SHEEN. Captain Holt had his passport returned and was free to leave the ship.
The MARTIN SHEEN has spent two previous summers in B.C. waters working with independent biologist Alexandra Morton. The ship and the Sea Shepherd crew have not broken any law during their time in Canadian waters nor is there an intention ever to do so.
It appears the Canadian government is very worried about Dr. Morton’s independent research into piscine reovirus and parasites being transmitted from the farms to wild salmon species.
And they should be worried because the Canadian DFO has been covering up the truth about this threat to the entire B.C. marine ecosystem by this invasive foreign Atlantic salmon species. Salmon farms have been banned in the neighboring states of Washington and Alaska and next month the government of British Columbia must make a decision on the renewal of the licenses for these destructive facilities. If they decide to renew, there will be huge consequences for the provincial government from First Nations tribes and environmental and conservation organizations.
Sea Shepherd has committed the MARTIN SHEEN to support Alexandra Morton’s research during Operation Virus Hunter this summer. It’s a research project, not a protest and the objective is knowledge.
Also on Monday, May 28th the Dzawada’enuxw First Nation of Kingcome Inlet filed a claim of Aboriginal title at the BC Supreme Court in Vancouver. The claim states that the provincially-granted tenures of four companies, Marine Harvest, Cermaq, International Forest Products and Western Forest Products, are not authorized by the Land Act or the Forest Act because they are in Aboriginal title areas. Ten fish farms that are in the Broughton Archipelago operated by Marine Harvest and Cermaq are affected, as well as mostly inactive forest tenures held by Interfor and Western Forest Products.
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Monday, May 28, 2018
Rise and fall of the Great Barrier Reef
Study is first of its kind to reconstruct evolution of reef over 30,000 years in response to abrupt environmental change.
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Zangbeto: Voodoo Savior of Benin's Mangroves
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Thursday, May 24, 2018
Cold production of new seafloor
Magma steadily emerges between oceanic plates. It pushes the plates apart, builds large underwater mountains and forms new seafloor. This is one of the fundamental processes that constantly change the face of the Earth. But there are also times when new seabed is created without any volcanism, by un-roofing mantle material directly at the seafloor. Scientists have now published the first estimation based on seismic data on how much seafloor is produced this way.
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Are hurricanes to blame for fish dying and 'dead zones' appearing on NC's coast?
Lack of government engagement puts Squamish Estuary Management Committee in limbo
How Frequent Hurricanes Change Estuarial Ecosystems
Russian River Estuary Management Project Community Meeting in Jenner
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Estuary the go-to spot
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Water Agency will present river estuary plan May 31
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
The gypsum gravity chute: A phytoplankton-elevator to the ocean floor
Tiny gypsum crystals can make phytoplankton so heavy that they rapidly sink, hereby transporting large quantities of carbon to the ocean's depths.
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Whitstable: Woman collapses outside Estuary View Medical Centre
Comments sought on revised long-range plan for Delaware Estuary
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Wetland Bird Survey still going strong after 70 years
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Sedimentation degrading Kaiteriteri, Otuwhero estuaries
Mangroves thrive in Adyar estuary after four decades
Dead whale found in Oakland estuary towed to Angel Island for necropsy
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New York offering grant to help protect Hudson River estuary
Monday, May 21, 2018
Japanese student discovers new crustacean species in deep sea hydrothermal vent
A new species of microcrustacean was collected from a submarine hot spring (hydrothermal vent) of a marine volcano (Myojin-sho caldera) in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Japan. This crustacean group is found only in deep-sea hydrothermal vents and is the first of its kind found in Japanese waters.
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Impact of nitrogen on Great Bay's health questioned
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Lympstone school friends complete school funding cycle challenge
Saturday, May 19, 2018
On the Fly: Love and tarpon
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Conserve mangroves
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Person rescued from waist-deep water after car drives off road in West Auckland
Toronto's flower brokers: Inside the city's spring rush of plant production
10K mangroves to be planted to mark Ocean month
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Ross River mangroves a unique habitat
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Mumbaikars Choose Mangroves Over Sewage Treatment Plant
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MME restores mangroves in Al Ruwais coastal area
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Friday, May 18, 2018
Showing Animals of the Squamish Estuary kingdom
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Dead whale found in Oakland estuary near Jack London Square
State restoring parts of Caloosahatchee headwaters
UPDATED: Federal government announces $1.5 million toward Estuary Restoration Project
The toast of the coast: Four-bedroom house with a round tower that gives incredible 180-degree estuary views goes on ...
Thursday, May 17, 2018
Major shift in marine life occurred 33 million years later in the South
A new study of marine fossils from Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand and South America reveals that one of the greatest changes to the evolution of life in our oceans occurred more recently in the Southern Hemisphere than previously thought.
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Bhayandar: Police registers FIR against BJP MLA Narendra Mehta for destruction of mangroves
Ayeyarwady to embark on massive mangrove replanting programme
To save mangroves, Kutch's camel breeders take to the internet
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Insurance Turns to Coral Reefs and Mangroves as Ocean Risks Surge
Activists target BJP MLA, his brother for constructing club over Mumbai mangroves
Developer wants to build on Lee County mangroves
WWF, Martin Dow committed to protecting declining Mangroves
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More mangroves burnt, destroyed for farming; Greens urge state to protect all mangroves
Traditional knowledge sheds light on changing East Greenland climate and polar bear hunt
Inuit polar bear hunters in East Greenland report changes to their subsistence hunting patterns as well as polar bear distribution and behavior due to decreasing sea ice and the introduction of hunting quotas in 2006. The study is the first in nearly 20 years to document traditional knowledge in East Greenland -- providing a valuable baseline for monitoring future changes and the polar bear population.
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437 million tons of fish, $560 billion wasted due to destructive fishing operations
Industrial fisheries that rely on bottom trawling wasted 437 million tonnes of fish and missed out on $560 billion in revenue over the past 65 years, new research has found.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
How large can a tsunami be in the Caribbean?
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has researchers reevaluating whether a magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami might also be a likely risk for the Caribbean region, seismologists report.
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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Antarctic seals can help predict ice sheet melt
Two species of seal found in Antarctic seas are helping scientists collect data about the temperature and salinity of waters around vulnerable ice sheets in West Antarctica. Understanding more about how this water gets towards the ice shelves by measuring its temperature, salinity and depth, will help climate change modellers make more accurate predictions about how rapidly the Antarctic ice sheet is melting.
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Natural ocean barriers could soon be covered by insurance
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Chalmette High students sow seeds of hope along battered St. Bernard Parish coastline
From the soil to the law, climate change efforts in Indonesia
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Feature: Insurance turns to coral reefs and mangroves as ocean risks surge
Insurance turns to coral reefs and mangroves as ocean risks surge
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Fishermen plant mangroves for the future
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Mumbaikars Choose Mangroves Over Sewage Plant, Join Hands To Save Them!
Monday, May 14, 2018
Ice stream draining Greenland Ice Sheet sensitive to changes over past 45,000 years
A ribbon of ice more than 600 kilometers long that drains about 12 percent of the gigantic Greenland Ice Sheet has been smaller than it is today about half of the time over the past 45,000 years, a new study suggests.
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Sunday, May 13, 2018
In Madagascar, fishermen plant mangroves for the future
Madagascar fishermen plant mangroves for the future
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For the birds: After busy migration, Island bird guide needs his own spring break
Carbon stock loss in mangrove forests: India ranks 8th
Less than 1% of India's mangrove cover deforested in 15 years: Global study
Thursday, May 10, 2018
Record-breaking ocean heat fueled Hurricane Harvey
Record-hot Gulf of Mexico waters supercharged Hurricane Harvey, fueling it with vast stores of water and setting the stage for devastating flooding after it stalled near Houston.
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Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Scientists dive into museum collections to reveal the invasion route of a small crustacean
While studies on biological invasions tend to focus on new records, two researchers went on to clarify a biological invasion at the Atlantic European coast. It turned out that a non-native crustacean has established its population 24 years prior to the available records.
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Monday, May 7, 2018
Novel scientific method to derive water quality criteria of metals
Increasing contamination of marine ecosystems by metals such as mercury, cadmium, chromium and nickel has been a global environmental concern, because elevated concentrations of metals can pose hazards to marine organisms, and humans who may consume contaminated seafood.
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Marine animals can hear us swim, kayak and scuba dive
While it is obvious that things like boats can be heard by marine life under the water, what about human activities like swimming, canoeing and scuba diving?
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Estuary alert for the retiring rakali
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Kids get a kick out of hands-on science project - counting eels
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