Gulf For-Hire Fishermen Celebrate Permanent Red Snapper Benefits
Captain Gary Jarvis is a veteran of the United State Air Force with more than 40 years of experience as a professional fisherman. He is also a partner with his sons in five seafood restaurants in Destin, Florida. Gary is...
Gulf For-Hire Fishermen Celebrate Permanent Red Snapper Benefits
Earlier this week, I met with Janet Shamlian of CBS This Morning to explore the overwhelming problem of ocean plastic. Plastic touches all of our lives, from the food packaging we buy to the computers and phones we work...
Is Recycling Enough to Save Our Whales From Plastics?
Do you remember the last time you saw brightly colored coral? Perhaps it was in an aquarium at a restaurant or doctor’s office. How did it get there? Thanks to improving aquarium technologies in the last 30 years, a trip...
How Much is That Coral in the Window?
Every year, we landlubbers heartily partake in the tradition of April Fool’s Day—the one day it’s deemed acceptable (nay even expected), to pour salt in an unsuspecting glass of water or hide tiny photos of disgruntled c...
4 Ocean Tricksters
Whale experts may have just discovered an entirely new species of orca—Type D. After reported sightings of what some believed to be a different breed of orca, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisher...
Mysterious Orca Could Be a New Species
Any mama will tell you—pregnancy can be a pain. But humans aren’t the only species to experience inconvenience in order to procreate. In fact, some of us humans might benefit from a reminder of just how wild the gestatio...
What is Gestation Like for Ocean Animals?
Alaska’s remote coastal communities aren’t on the road system, so when they need fuel—like diesel, home heating fuel, gasoline or jet fuel—it is delivered by ship. The coastal waters in western and Arctic Alaska are shal...
Improving the Safety of At-Sea Fuel Transfer
The first whale I ever saw was a beluga whale. I was perhaps four years old, visiting an aquarium, and stood fascinated by a creature so large, graceful and beautiful. Little did I know I would someday see hundreds of be...
How Can We Help Beluga Whales?
Would you believe that more people have been to the moon than have explored the deep, DEEP sea? It’s true! The mysteries of the deepest parts of the ocean have fascinated scientists for centuries and yet, we’...
How Deep is the Ocean?
If you ask someone on the street what their favorite ocean animal is, odds are you’d hear something like “sea turtle” or “dolphin.” While there is nothing wrong with that (who doesn’t love charismatic megafauna?), the oc...