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They pay me to talk about anatomy and biology, but these posts are mine. When I grow up, I want to live in Sea Base Alpha 🌊🐬🦈🐳🐟🦑🪸🐚🦀🐠🐙

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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 1h
Plankton bloom turns Thai island waters a bright, smelly green | Reuters share.google/tnKI4ObPxBdI...
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Plankton bloom turns Thai island waters a bright, smelly green
Heavy rains ‌and floods helped spark a plankton bloom that kept some swimmers on shore in the popular ​tourist island of Ko Lan.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 2h
Fighting #coralbleaching with probiotics? "probiotic treatments...maintained their photosynthetic efficiency and color, while the health of the untreated control corals declined." share.google/aAbWpn0DrHvq...
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Probiotics prevented coral bleaching during a Red Sea heat wave: Study
As a heat wave settled on the Red Sea in 2022, a patch of corals in a reef 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) off the coast of Saudi Arabia reacted differently than other corals. They’d been treated with probi...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 3h
For the third week, #Bukangi the #BronzeWhaler #shark continues to evades efforts to guide him back to the open ocean. Shark remains stranded in South Korean canal after second rescue attempt ends | Reuters share.google/3Se83TU6livm...
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Shark remains stranded in South Korean canal after second rescue attempt ends
A second attempt to guide a shark stranded in a canal in the ​South Korean port city of Busan back to the open sea ended without success on Friday, with the animal staying ‌in the waterway into a thir...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#shark A 3.5 meter #bronzewhaler #shark trapped in a canal in #SouthKorea has been dubbed "Bukangi," and the city of #Busan "declared ​the shark an honorary public relations ambassador" Shark stranded in South Korean canal draws 600,000 visitors as rescue bid fails share.google/2Iv4N8eZRqCX...
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Shark stranded in South Korean canal draws 600,000 visitors as rescue bid fails
Busan declared ​the shark an honorary public relations ambassador for the ​city.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use | Environment | The Guardian share.google/EokpED54GvXm...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wake up babe new shark just dropped
A new species of lanternshark has been described
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Discarded oyster shells from San Antonio restaurants and events are being recycled to rebuild oyster reefs in the Gulf of Mexico, improve water quality and create marine habitat - The Times of India
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
veterinarians at #MysticAquarium in #Connecticut, have used bacteria-killing viruses to treat a #beluga #whale (Delphinapterus leucas) with a drug-resistant infection. Blowhole nebulizer helps cure beluga whale's pneumonia | Popular Science share.google/Y4E0F0qhrXeh...
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Blowhole nebulizer helps cure beluga whale's pneumonia
The vets needed to get creative when antibiotics weren’t moving the needle for her chronic condition.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#shark The latest SharkBytes video from @kjparton.bsky.social discusses a BRUV baited with a cow carcass dropped to 1629 m depth near #HainanIsland in the #SouthChinaSe South China. The researchers fllmed female #PacificSleeperSharks youtu.be/N6UPb63cTwU?...
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Scientists Sunk a Cow To Find This Rare Deep-Sea Predator
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We didn’t know this?
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows | Marine life | The Guardian share.google/LECo9WTTikih...
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‘Incredibly encouraging’: healing the scars of traditional anchors in Dorset’s seagrass meadows
Eco-moorings restore seagrass in just five years, boosting sealife such as seahorses, eels and crabs
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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A humpback whale was spotted in a California river, 60 miles from its Pacific Ocean home
Denny Glover was hoping for a big catch when he went fishing with buddies on the Sacramento River, but he wasn't expecting a fully grown humpback whale.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From 2020 to 2023, Mississippi funded an oyster-shell recycling pilot to capture restaurant waste for cultch and reef-replenishment work along its Gulf Coast | World News - The Times of India share.google/zNp6L8frwJrk...
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From 2020 to 2023, Mississippi funded an oyster-shell recycling pilot to capture restaurant waste for cultch and reef-replenishment work along its Gulf Coast
as the industry shifted away from centralized shucking toward selling live oysters directly to restaurants, the resulting shells became scattered across many small locations rather than concentrated a...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tonnes of fishing gear and #plastic are washing up on #Seychelles beaches. We tracked where it was coming from share.google/EI2oF7Tw9pWz...
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Tonnes of fishing gear and plastic are washing up on Seychelles beaches. We tracked where it was coming from
Satellite tracking data was used to look at which ships and boats were active in the Seychelles waters.
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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a legally and morally indefensible argument with horrifying potential repercussions for threatened species and habitats.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Decline in dugong population prompts calls for action in Gulf of Carpentaria
Fishing industry and Indigenous community leaders in Australia's north are calling for further investigation into why dugong numbers appear to have declined by 50 per cent in the Gulf of Carpentaria, ...
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Peter Girguis @pgirguis.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A little tube worm love for you all today (ca. 1998 on the East Pacific Rise hydrothermal vents)
A clump of Riftia pachyptila tubeworsm found at a hydrothermal vent. I turned this picture into a computer "icon".
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"This year's field sampling estimated a total population of 349 million blue crabs in the bay, a 46% increase over last year...This raised the population overall to the highest it's been since 2019.." www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...
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Chesapeake blue crabs had an unusual rebound after years of decline. Scientists don’t know why
After half a decade of worryingly low numbers, the Chesapeake Bay's blue crab population appears to be fighting its way out of a slump. Scientists still have no clear explanation for why, and say the ...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#whales #bluewhale #humpbackwhales @mbarinews.bsky.social "Humpback whales uniquely exhibited continuous interannual increases, rising from 34% to 76% of days over six years..." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Audible changes in marine trophic ecology: Baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the eastern North Pacific
Among tremendous biodiversity within the California Current Ecosystem (CCE) are gigantic mysticetes (baleen whales) that produce structured sequences of sound described as song. From six years of pass...
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Multiple records of swordfish bills snapped off inside large whales too.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
More than 100 eagle rays gathered around a tuna farm off Malta; scientists say it is the largest aggregation of the species ever recorded | - The Times of India share.google/asepPJo8ilXr...
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More than 100 eagle rays gathered around a tuna farm off Malta; scientists say it is the largest aggregation of the species ever recorded
More than 100 ‘eagle rays’ were recorded gathering around a tuna ranch off the north-eastern coast of Malta. Scientists believe it is the largest aggregation of the species ever recorded.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Large Myliobatis aquila aggregations associated with tuna ranches in the Maltese Islands | Marine Biodiversity | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Large Myliobatis aquila aggregations associated with tuna ranches in the Maltese Islands - Marine Biodiversity
ROV footage captured around a tuna ranch off the NE coast of Malta has recorded the largest known aggregation to date of Myliobatis aquila, with over 100 individuals. Few such aggregations have been r...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This new video from @kjparton.bsky.social explains that the reason why #swordfish are stabbing #bluesharks may be different than why they stab #thresher #sharks youtu.be/rMFVdo4yLHE?...
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The Fatal Weapon That's Being Found Inside Shark Skulls
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
#Louisiana #seaturtle #fishing Source: SeafoodSource share.google/CL8Xk45YFcaV...
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US appeals court rejects challenge to turtle excluder device requirements in Louisiana
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has rejected a challenge to turtle excluder device (TED) requirements in Louisiana
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#Beluga #marineland www.npr.org
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Top stories in the U.S. and world news, politics, health, science, business, music, arts and culture. Nonprofit journalism with a mission. This is NPR.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Today's Song is "Boogie Chillen" by John Lee Hooker, recorded in 1948. Emerging from the Delta but a very different version of the country blues. Hooker's songs are less songs as freewheeling/apt-to-change talking blues stories over percussive often single chord grooves. youtu.be/G4pp02_GN9A?...
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John Lee Hooker Boogie Chillen original 1948 version
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Portugal latest EU member to announce fuel aid for commercial fishers | SeafoodSource share.google/yNnZgJ3BInQZ...
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Portugal latest EU member to announce fuel aid for commercial fishers
The European Commission has approved a fuel aid plan for commercial fishers proposed by Portugal to offset the high prices caused by the war on Iran.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
# invasivespecies #greencrab www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
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Invasive green crabs are bad for the environment, so New Englanders are starting to eat more of them
s a morning fog lifted over Maine’s York River, Mike Masi and his two interns stood on a dock sorting through a mound of one of the region’s most despised crabs and hoped to find a few that would end ...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#Iceland #EuropeanUnion #Fishing Icelanders voted against having talks to join the EU. They had "concerns that joining the bloc could threaten the country's control over its fishing waters and national sovereignty." timesofindia-indiatimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/timesofi...?
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Iceland rejects EU membership talks, puts fishing rights and sovereignty first - The Times of India
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
1/11 🐟 2nd new preprint today from @chasedbrownstein.bsky.social We investigated how losing the swim bladder, the organ that most fishes use to control their buoyancy, has shaped the diversity of ray-finned fishes over 90 million years of Earth history. The results surprised us. 🧵
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"NOAA Fisheries is considering extending the Gulf shrimp permit moratorium for another 10 years, with a five-year option also under review." share.google/gSk5Kf0ZejJ6...
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Gulf shrimp permit limits could continue another decade
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rescued Marineland #Beluga whale dies at #SheddAquarium share.google/jIRwE7wV2ywa...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Judge grants preliminary approval for a USD 2.25 million settlement over Dungeness crab price-fixing | SeafoodSource share.google/c5zG4grvAQgc...
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Judge grants preliminary approval for a USD 2.25 million settlement over Dungeness crab price-fixing
A U.S. judge granted preliminary approval for three companies to settle in a price-fixing lawsuit leveled against Dungeness crab buyers
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#salmon #aquaculture #Chile starts shipping salmon to Nicaragua, strengthens Russian seafood connection | SeafoodSource share.google/YXVNKvIOooYv...
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Chile starts shipping salmon to Nicaragua, strengthens Russian seafood connection
Chile has begun shipping salmon to Nicaragua after negotiating with the Central American nation.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
news-mongabay-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/news.mongabay.com/2026/08/antarctic-krill-fishery-closes-months-early-amid-increasing-fishing-pressure/ share.google/GXo8AXM4EWRd...
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Antarctic krill fishery closes months early amid increasing fishing pressure
On Aug. 12, for the second year in a row, the krill fishery in the Southern Ocean closed early after reaching its annual catch limit of 620,000 metric tons. This precautionary quota is intended to pre...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Louisiana #shrimp Three individuals cited for shrimping in Louisiana during closed season | SeafoodSource share.google/0VXiMq5FttID...
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Three individuals cited for shrimping in Louisiana during closed season
The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has cited three subjects for using skimmer nets during a closed season
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Marineprotectedareas It's easy to create an #MPA in a place that people don't use. The government gets credit for having protected x percentage of ocean, and no human behavior is changed share.google/GqoRehiyLgq8...
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Australia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile waters near the mainland, scientists say
Hundreds of experts write to environment minister calling for stronger protections for ‘unique and distinct’ marine ecosystems
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
#Invasivespecies After years of invasive rats threatening island wildlife, Tuvalu removed them from six islets; residents are now seeing birds and coconut crabs return | - The Times of India share.google/CSbQLwXIzGuU...
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After years of invasive rats threatening island wildlife, Tuvalu removed them from six islets; residents are now seeing birds and coconut crabs return
On small islands scattered across the Pacific, changes in wildlife can be surprisingly easy to notice. A few more birds along the shoreline, coconut crabs appearing where they had become scarce, or na...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#Greenland #humpback #minke #finwhale #climatechange #whale "None of these marine mammals were historically found here...now, as climate change warms the sea and melts that ice, they have adapted." Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears share.google/IUdoV1zLYEYk...
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Giant whales move into Greenland waters as ice disappears
Melting sea ice from climate change has opened up the region for giant whales to undertake "feeding frenzies".
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#deepseamining World’s two most powerful countries chase $16 trillion deep-ocean minerals share.google/gCsKMu0zkiC9...
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World’s two most powerful countries chase $16 trillion deep-ocean minerals as Africa risks losing attention for its untapped resources
The US and China, the world’s two largest economies, are turning to the seabed for critical minerals estimated to be worth up to $16 trillion, raising concerns in Africa that deep-sea mining could dra...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#Japan #renewableenergy "Beneath the surface of the Naru Strait, a 1.1 MW turbine is drawing energy from water moving with the tides and sending electricity back towards land through a subsea cable." share.google/5NkIxjKYJ64T...
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Japan installed a 1.1 MW turbine beneath the Naru Strait, using predictable tidal currents to generate clean electricity for the Goto Islands
Between Japan’s Goto Islands, the sea is doing something that is usually associated with wind farms and solar fields. Beneath the surface of the Naru Strait, a 1.1 MW turbine is drawing energy from wa...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Firefighters help #Manatee back into the water. @myfwc.bsky.social says leave that to the professionals. share.google/30G88bBHoEWB...
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Firefighters help stranded manatees back into water, prompting response from FWC
New Smyrna Beach firefighters helped two stranded manatees back into the water after the animals spent more than eight hours on shore.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Mongobay reports that the Supreme Court of the #Philippine has ruled to end a requirement for commercial #fishing boats to transmit their location. Small scale fishers worry about overfishing of coastal Waters share.google/RiomLnmJCdg7...
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Philippine Supreme Court rules monitoring commercial fishing vessels is unconstitutional
The Philippine Supreme Court has struck down a regulation requiring commercial fishing vessels to continuously transmit their locations and submit electronic catch reports, a decision small-scale fish...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Brighton turtle rescuer nominated for BBC Make A Difference Award share.google/bVeWSCnHYsPq...
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Brighton turtle rescuer nominated for BBC Make A Difference Award
Joe Williams, who nurses turtles back to health in Brighton, is on the Make A Difference shortlist.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Earlier, we talked about beluga from the shuttered marineland in Canada being moved to SeaWorld facilities in the United States. Now two are being moved to the Georgia aquarium share.google/nv1u8QTiCzBE...
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Two rescued beluga whales from closed Marineland of Canada begin new life at Georgia Aquarium after international effort
After Marineland of Canada's sudden closure, Georgia Aquarium welcomes Balor and Zephyr, who are among 30 beluga whales being relocated in a sweeping rescue mission.
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Public Input Sought On Possible Cuts To Menhaden Harvest In Chesapeake Bay - The BayNet share.google/IP361Hn6UITY...
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Public Input Sought On Possible Cuts To Menhaden Harvest In Chesapeake Bay - The BayNet
The large-scale commercial harvest of Atlantic menhaden in the Chesapeake Bay could be slashed later this year. The move might help starving osprey chicks and other struggling fish but could also hurt...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TIL that sardine oil can be used to make nitroglycerin for Dynamite 🧨 How Imperial Japan turned to the sardine to help build a war machine share.google/CHfHS8khbmrv...
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How Imperial Japan turned to the sardine to help build a war machine
Dynamite made from fish oil was one weapon deployed by an assertive Japan in the early 20th century
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Further coverage, this time from times of India In 2025, coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef’s northern region fell to 30% after its largest annual decline on record; a year later, surveys of 192 reefs found it had risen to 35.1% despite another bleaching event share.google/TYyqoR2SGZGX...
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In 2025, coral cover in the Great Barrier Reef’s northern region fell to 30% after its largest annual decline on record; a year later, surveys of 192 reefs found it had risen to 35.1% despite another ...
The last two years have been a tale of two extremes for the Great Barrier Reef.” In 2025, the northern region of the reef experienced its biggest annual decline in coral cover on record, dropping to j...
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joeymaier 🌊 @joeymaier.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
NOAA technical divers are using rebreathers as they do #coralrestoration, replanting lab grown #coral at "depths of 72.5 metres (237 feet). Replanted species include Swiftia exserta, Muricea pendula and Thesea nivea share.google/1GNvcIhW13wr...
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In 2010, Deepwater Horizon damaged deep-sea coral habitats; 16 years later, NOAA divers are planting lab-grown colonies to help rebuild them
Sixteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill injured extensive coral habitats in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are developing new ways to help these fragile ecosystems recover. According to NO...
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