Siren's Link To Sea

4/5/25

WATCHING A SMALL AQUARIUM TANK FISH DIE : AN UNNATURAL AND IMPRISONED LIFE ALONE

Over the years I've become increasingly against home aquariums for fish that grow bigger. I recently saw a fish that had lived alone in an aquarium die. It was horrible. This fish had lived alone for the amusement of the few people who actually even bothered to notice it. It swum around a background, plastic made-for-aquarium sea weeds and fake castles and such, and awaited feeding. I would walk by and go eye to eye with it and sometimes move my fingers as if they were fins and the fish would follow.

I heard that this fish had been in the tank for ELEVEN YEARS and was ALONE because he "ATE ALL THE OTHER FISH IN THE TANK." Well in the sea, fish eat fish, but I wondered if perhaps this was because he had not been fed properly.... And was also in a tank TOO SMALL FOR HIM.

HIM ... it could have been a HER.

The fish started laying low to the bottom of the tank, barely upright.

It's eyes were covered in some sort of white film.

I immediately informed the owner I thought the fish was dying and to contact their aquarium service.

A week later the fish was clearly having trouble fish-breathing, it's gills working hard.

I had not seen air being pumped into the tank.

The walls of the tank had a green-black film on them.

As a result I'm clearly anti-aquarium tank.

Perhaps the small fish that never get too big can have a better tank life than this?

Other fish in the tank.

Real sea weed.

Proper cleaning and feeding and light cycles....

Siren

4/3/25

4/1/25

FUNNY

3/29/25

CRABS AND LOBSTERS FEEL PAIN UPON BEING BOILED ALIVE : SCIENTISTS CALL FOR A BAN

I have this idea that creatures of the sea have only recently been understood to be animals. What I almost never eat is sea food. Siren

EARTH COM : SCIENTISTS CALL FOR IMMEDIATE BAN ON BOILING THEM ALIVE

Excerpt: Dr. Lynne Sneddon, a zoophysiologist at the University of Gothenburg, believes it’s time we reconsider how we treat these animals.

“We need to find less painful ways to kill shellfish if we are to continue eating them. Because now we have scientific evidence that they both experience and react to pain,” she says.

Excerpt: Until now, the idea that crustaceans feel pain was mostly based on observational studies.

Researchers noticed that when crabs and lobsters were exposed to potentially harmful stimuli — like electric shocks or acids — they would touch the affected area or try to avoid the danger in subsequent encounters.

This behavior led many to believe they might be experiencing pain.

But the team at the University of Gothenburg took it a step further. PhD student Eleftherios Kasiouras led a study where they measured the activity in a shore crab’s brain using EEG-style recordings.

3/26/25

SHARK ATTACK HOT SPOTS? THE INTERNATIONAL SHARK ATTACK FILE!

FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY - SHARK ATTACK FILE

Siren here! This is a new one for me! Maps and Data!

This is the world's ONLY scientifically documented and comprehensive database of all known shark attacks. Beginning in 1958, but going back too, there are now close to 7000 investigations...

CHECK OUT THE INTERACTIVE MAPS...

What are the chances?

3/24/25

INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES MEETING 2025 DUBAI

IUCN ORG

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. By harnessing the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,400 Member organisations and the input of some 17,000 experts, IUCN is the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

9-15 October, 2025

The IUCN World Conservation Congress is a once-every-four-years, diverse gathering of nature conservation experts, leaders and decision-makers from around the world. It will help shape global priorities for nature conservation and climate change for the coming decade and beyond.

3/23/25

WHEN ONE HAS BEEN LONG AT SEA .... QUOTED FROM JOHN STEINBECK

"WHEN ONE HAS LONG BEEN AT SEA, THE SMELL OF LAND REACHES FAR OUT TO GREET ONE. AND THE SAME IS TRUE WHEN ONE HAS BEEN LONG INLAND."

from Travels With Charley: In Search Of America, a book about his 1960 road trip with his dog.

3/21/25

ICE BERG THE SIZE OF CHICAGO LET GO FROM ANTARTICA

NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY - ICEBERG SPEEDS AWAY

Excerpt: Named A-84 by the U.S. National Ice Center, the berg measures about 30 kilometers (19 miles) long and 17 kilometers (11 miles) wide. It has an area approaching the size of Chicago, Illinois.

Iceberg calving is a normal occurrence for ice shelves. However, factors such as warming air and water along with decreasing protective sea ice can accelerate calving and lead to collapse, as has happened to several ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula.

Observations made by explorers beginning in the early 1940s, and later by remote sensing, show that the George VI has been losing shelf ice. For now, the retreat has been gradual, aided by the stability provided by its unique location, sandwiched between the Antarctic Peninsula and Alexander Island.

*** Siren here! As we know, iceberg melt can raise the sea level. Other, larger bergs have broken off and gone to sea...

3/18/25

REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE

3/17/25

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION REPORTS ON WARMEST FEBRUARY ON RECORD ADMIST FEDERAL FUNDING CUTS EFFECTING HUNDREDS OF EMPLOYEES

NCEI NOAA : GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT

Siren here! Look at those maps. Is your city going to be under water within your lifetime?

If you took your umbrella today, it may just be because of a scientific report from NOAA.

TIME MAGAZINE : THE TRUE COST OF NOAA CUTS - CLIMATE CHANGE

Excerpt: If you’ve ever avoided a hurricane, ducked a tornado, evacuated ahead of a wildfire, or merely relied on a weather forecast to take an umbrella to work, you likely have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to thank. As America’s—and indeed the world’s—leading weather and climate watchdog and the parent organization of the National Weather Service (NWS), NOAA runs a standing army of personnel and hardware on and off the planet to keep an eye on the Earth’s often stormy temperament. The agency owns or operates 13 weather satellites; manages more than 200 deep-water buoys: and gathers weather and climate information from a storm of data provided by no fewer than 10,600 state, local, and federal governments, as well as universities and private companies nationwide.

Excerpt: But NOAA is now threatened. As the Associated Press and others have reported, the agency’s already stretched workforce of 13,000 people is facing a deep cut of more than 1,000 of those employees mandated by the Trump Administration—a move that follows an earlier purge of about 1,300 in late February. The personnel reductions not only imperil NOAA’s ability to carry out its core chore of tracking and warning about upcoming severe weather events, they also hamper its ability to conduct basic research into climate change—carried out to help humanity better prepare for the sweeping environmental upheaval already evident in a steadily warming world.

3/14/25

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CUTS THREATEN SCIENCE RESEARCH : UCLA and USC SCIENCE PROTESTS : STAND UP FOR SCIENCE MOVEMENT

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE 2025

WHY DO YOU STAND UP FOR SCIENCE ? : ESSAYS WANTED

Graduate Admissions cut... PhD Grad's delayed...

ANNENEBERG MEDIA : SCIENTISTS UCLA USC PROTEST

Excerpt:

Margarid Turnamian, a clinical psychology graduate student at USC and organizer of the event, emphasized that funding cuts could be far-reaching because science is critical to everyday life.

“Science affects every single person’s life on a daily basis,” she said. “Everything that we use: from our cell phones to the roads that we drive on, to the foods that we eat, to the way that we communicate, is based in science.”

With the threat of federal funding cuts, Turnamian said she fears many people underestimate just how much they rely on scientific advancements. She pointed out that the economic argument against science funding — that it is not worth investing in — is misleading.

“At the rally on Friday, one of the speakers, Duke Kahn, who’s a professor of psychology at USC, brought up a great statistic that every $1 that goes to NIH funding is returned into the economy at like $2.50,” she said.

3/11/25

SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE : ONE IN THREE FISH FOR HUMAN FOOD HAS PLASTIC IN IT AND OTHER STATS!

SAS ORG : PLASTIC STATS For wildlife such as fish, dolphins, seabirds, and seals it can be fatal.. A whale with thirty plastic bags in its stomach....

Immerse yourself in plastic trash and its shocking impact on our blue planet to better understand the big issues at play.