A study tracking salmon in the Fraser and Columbia rivers has determined that dams are not the main cause of Salmon collapse. “dam modifications to assist migrating salmon have led to much-improved survival rates since the 1970s, the study team suggests.” In other words, the core issue with Salmon survival is in the open ocean. …
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Bush: Ocean Protector
Credit where credit is due. In 2006 President Bush turned the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands into Papah?naumoku?kea Marine National Monument, which formed the largest marine wildlife reserve in the world. It looks like he wasn’t done. Bush has just proposed protecting more islands, atolls, reefs, and trenches from fishing and deep sea mining. His list includes …
Mass Extinctions and ‘Rise of Slime’
A Scripps researcher has a paper out called Ecological extinction and evolution in the brave new ocean. The findings are not for the faint: Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world’s oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems they …
Sharkwater
I had heard about Sharkwater on the film festival circuit for a year, but wasn’t ever in a place where it was showing. It came out on dvd last week and I finally watched it last night. Sharkwater is really three movies in one. Part nature documentary on sharks, part educational documentary on shark finning …
CA oil rigs – remove them, let them be reefs?
As anyone who has driven through OC to the California central coast knows, there are lot of offshore oil rigs out there. The UT has a great article on the debate over what to do about the California oil rigs once their life span is up. Some want them dismantled, but as the article shows, …
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