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…
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…
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… ),…
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…
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.
On Halloween, passengers aboard the B.C. ferry between Galiano Island and Tsawwassen were treated to the sight of a superpod of about 1,000 Pacific white-sided…
The New Scientist magazine says the IPCC call for “geoengineering” is a call to create the largest industry in human history. The proof is at hand that what we need to create is a one of the smaller industries in human history.
Au contraire New Scientist, we just need 100 tiny villages working on a common summer “dream” job. More like the smallest industry in human history!
In perhaps the largest, longest, and most comprehensive study of ocean fish in the Pacific scientists reveal populations of fish collapsed by 78% over the…
Restoring Ocean Pastures, It Just Works! In a stunning affirmation of the utility of ocean pasture restoration a Canadian government research team has reported the…
A method of simple eco triage is presented here. Remember the reason we need eco triage is that we recognize that we DO NOT have…
Red Sky At Night Is A Sailors Delight Once upon a time, I lived on a sailboat on the coast of California and on a…
The starving pups weigh 25 lbs. not the 100 lbs. they should. This crisis of thousands sea lion pups starving to death on California beaches is…
I have some personal experience with David Keith who seems to be a nexus kin within the world of geoengineering. The difference is he claims…
Carbon fixation by phytoplankton in the open ocean plays a key role in the global carbon cycle though that role is not fully understood. Until…