Food aid for those most in need is both a question of charity and a question of available food. Last fall when our pasture fed…
Last week Britain’s and Europeans were dismayed when they were warned of the clogging Sahara dust coating everything from cars to lungs. The Sahara had…
A tour de force scientific paper published in the Journal PLOS One confirms the critical role ocean pasture conditions have on salmon returns. Scientists have long…
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…
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…
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…
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… ),…
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…
We are working now to bring our methods and ideas of ocean pasture restoration to the world of Atlantic Salmon. There is precious little time…
Tiny ocean pasture mesopelagic fish historically grossly underestimated now shown to be 30 times greater biomass. Alone they outweigh all other animal life on Earth.
“We’ve got freaking pinks everywhere and it is ridiculous,” said Brett Barkdull, a state Fish and Wildlife biologist. “They are still in the rivers and everyone is growing tired of catching them.”
One of the most important groups of phytoplankton Ehux now has a place in the worlds genomic library. An international consortium has unravelled and sequenced…
Cod In Fish Families Share Personality Traits In striking findings in Norway it seems Atlantic cod fish on farms are full of personality. We humans…
Borg Plankton (cocolithophore) After removing Borg implants. Cocolithophores genome now mapped…