This Blue Planet is in a fishery crisis. A solution to restore healthy fish is at hand. We just have to get to work to give…
The central California coastal town of Monterey was the setting of John Steinbeck’s depression period novel Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there: Lee…
This year’s 2014 wild Alaska salmon season will be stunningly smaller than last year if the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s predictions are correct. The…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will purchase $20 million in canned Alaska pink salmon for nationwide distribution to hungry Americans, with a suggestion from Sen….
This week the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) is releasing its latest report, the “Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report.” Like many…
In the ocean little goes to waste. But even that waste is pure gold to oceanographer David Siegel, director of the Earth Research Institute at U.C….
Puffins are seabirds that are especially wonderful and beautiful to watch. They frequent the ocean far from shore where they feed on all manner of…
The International Court of Justice finally banned the hunting of whales by Japan earlier this year. It even looked for a few weeks that the…
The British Royal Society in 2008 called for experiments with ocean pasture replenishment and restoration. The very same experiments we completed in 2012. And guess…
For the past several years, the Pacific Northwest oyster industry has struggled with significant losses due to ocean acidification as oyster larvae encountered mortality rates…
A new paper reports on the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean pastures over the past 40 years. As the ocean fish pastures collapse mother fish…
If you have ever wondered at the wonder of vitamins keep in mind that it’s not only humans who need them. Vitamins are essential micro-nutrients…
More than 30 years ago John Martin unravelled the vital role of iron, that arrives with dust in the wind, has on ocean plankton blooms….
In a new paper in the science journal PNAS the long known role of seabirds is reported anew. Seabirds flock to plankton blooms and in…
This is a new film (late 2013) that tells the story of how Atlantic Salmon are dying at sea. While the film seems to think…
Many people have asked if the Atlantic Salmon might benefit from the restoration of their ocean pastures. Absolutely yes and recovery will likely be dramatic…
Starving Ocean – with Debbie MacKenzie and Farley Mowat In 2004, 20 years after a “deathly silent” response to Farley Mowat’s “Sea of Slaughter” (http://www.youtube.com/watc… ),…
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg who just recently stepped down as Mayor of New York City seems to have a passion for fish. His Bloomberg Foundation has…
Art Hasler (1908-2001) Arthur Hasler played a major role in the development of aquatic ecology. His work is inspirational to me and many others. He…
Projections from throughout the ocean and fisheries science venues are advising another miracle is in the offing This years Fraser River Sockeye Salmon runs will…