8/27/22
SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE ! EVER AVOID GETTING INTO THE WATER BECAUSE OF THE YUK FACTOR?
SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE - GREAT BRITAIN
After learning that very many people avoid going into rivers or the sea because of fears of becoming sick from sewage, I learned about this group.
I sure hope the mermaids are not killed off from sewage.
8/25/22
8/23/22
DEEP SEA MINING COULD KILL OFF ANIMALS NOT YET DISCOVERED : CELL PHONE METALS DESIRED
SAVE THE HIGH SEAS ORG - DEEP SEA MINING WOULD KILL ANIMALS NOT YET DISCOVERED by Sabrina Weiss
This does not sound good.
The ocean floor is rife with life, some of it unseen, but the noise and the lights and so much else could disturb the ocean ecology...
8/21/22
UGLY FISH MORE LIKELY TO BECOME EXTINCT BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE COLORFUL AND FANCY ONES
THE GUARDIAN : THE REEF FISH PEOPLE FIND UGLY MORE LIKELY TO BE ENDANGERED
Basically, people like colorful fish.
Excerpt: "There is a need for us to make sure that our 'natural' aesthetic biases do not turn into a bias of conservation effort," said Nicolas Mouquet, a community ecologist at the University of Montpellier, and one of the lead authors of the study. This discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions in the long run, he said.
8/18/22
8/15/22
ONLY TEN VAQUITA EXIST - WORLD'S RAREST MARINE MAMMAL - A SMALL PORPOISE
WORLD WILD LIFE ORG SPECIES DIRECTORY
Excerpt: Vaquita, the world's rarest marine mammal, is on the edge of extinction. The plight of cetaceans - whales, dolphins, and porpoises - as a whole is exemplified by the rapid decline of the vaquita in Mexico, with about 10 individuals remaining. This little porpoise wasn't discovered until 1958 and a little over half a century later, we are on the brink of losing them forever. Vaquita are often caught and drowned in gillnets used by illegal fishing operations in marine protected areas within Mexico's Gulf of California...
8/13/22
CHECKING ON THE ELEPHANT SEALS - ANO NUEVO STATE RESERVE
CALIFORNIA PARKS : ELEPHANT SEALS
Excerpt: By 1892 only 50 to 100 individuals were left. The only remaining colony was on the Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California.
In 1922, the Mexican government gave protected status to elephant seals, and the U.S. government followed suit a few years later when the seals began to appear in Southern California waters. Since that time, elephant seals have continued to multiply exponentially, and they have extended their breeding range as far north as Point Reyes. Today there are approximately 200,000 Northern Elephant Seals. ...
At sea elephant seals typically dive 20 minutes to a depth of 1,000 to 2,000 feet in search of food: rays, skates. rat fish, squid, and small sharks. The maximum recorded depth is 5,592 feet. The females eat nothing while they are giving birth, nursing, and mating, and the males go without food for up to three months at a time. They are preyed upon by killer whales and sharks.
ADULT MALES ARE THERE NOW...
8/12/22
8/10/22
QUICK FACTS ON ICEBERGS - THEY ARE MELTING - FROM NATIONAL SNOW AND ICE DATA CENTER
NSIDC - ICEBERGS and GLACIERS - ICE!
Excerpt: The International Ice Patrol uses airplanes and radars to track icebergs that float into major shipping lanes. The U.S. National Ice Center uses satellite date rto monitor icebergs near Antarctia...
8/7/22
SIREN'S LINK TO SEA - CLIMATE CHANGE - ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM - OCEAN ECOLOGY
You've reached a Blog that includes news on CLIMATE CHANGE, OCEAN ECOLOGY, the SEA CREATURES that are so very interesting, as well as some MERMAIDS, PIRATES, SAILORS, and SURFERS too!
8/5/22
HORSESHOE CRABS PROTECTED IN PHILIPPINES
The story originates with National Geographic which asks for an email to log-in an read three free stories a month. I caught it at Daily Mail, a publication based in the UK.
DAILY MAIL SCIENCE : HORSESHOE CRABS THRIVING IN PROTECTED AREA PHILIPPINES Beautiful photos.
Their blood is blue and harvesting them is partly in order to make Covid-19 vaccines...
