The Labor Day holiday interrupted last Monday’s second installment of The Salty Scoop, which is merely a highlight of the previous week’s news and blog posts I found interesting and pertinent to marine life and ocean conservation. And by all means feel free to add your recommended posts, news, videos and pictures via the comments section.
And now that The Salty Scoop is going on the second week I have found I need to make better on the spot notes. Trying to remember what I’ve read over the course of a week is a daunting task and just not working up to the level I was giving my brain credit for in terms of recall. Oh well, here ya go…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that a petition to protect the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) under the Endangered Species Act presents substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that adding the species to the federal list of threatened and endangered species may be warranted. This preliminary finding is based, in part, upon projected changes in sea ice habitats associated with climate change.
From Deep Pacific, Ugly and Tasty, With a Catch (Sept. 9)
The answer to the eternal mystery of what makes up a Filet-O-Fish sandwich turns out to involve an ugly creature from the sunless depths of the Pacific, whose bounty, it seems, is not limitless.
Japanese town in ‘The Cove’ setting dolphins free (Sept. 9)
The Japanese town chronicled in the award-winning film “The Cove” for its annual dolphin hunt that turns coastal waters red with blood has suspended killing the animals — at least for this week’s catch — following an international outcry.
Hoping for a Hurricane? Coral Reefs Are (Sept. 9)
Having lived in the hurricane zone for most of the last decade, I have developed a bit of an addiction to The Weather Channel this time of year. Until recently, the general feeling around hurricane coverage and anticipation of hurricane season in the United States has been a fear of “the big one.”
Posted by Stephanie Wear on Cool Green Science
Stalking the wily night critters: Hinge-beak shrimps (Sept. 12)
Imagine that it’s just after dark. You jump off the stern of the boat into the water and descend to the reef. You switch on your light and sweep the beam left and right to get your bearings. You see little blinking red lights all over the place. What the…??
Posted by B.N. Sullivan on The Right Blue
Chambered Nautilus: a living fossil that needs protecting (Sept. 10)
When I first started scuba diving over 25 years ago, I became fascinated with all kinds of underwater life – but often for all the wrong reasons. I tried spearfishing, game collecting, shell collecting – a variety of activities that I no longer engage in as I now view sealife as an important but threatened resource.
Posted by RTSea on RTSea Blog
Whaling by the numbers (Sept. 9)
Whaling data by scientific permit, aboriginal catches, and whales taken under objection by the International Whaling Commission from 1985-2007.
Posted by Earth Stats on BIOtheNUMBERS
Dr. Melissa Miller has spent most of her career looking at sea otters. Well who wouldn’t want that job? Except that she is a pathologist, and spends her day digging around inside the carcasses of dead sea otters to figure out what contributed to their demise.
Posted by Alison Barratt on SeaNotes
VIDEO: Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) at a cleaning station in Hawaii (Sept. 9)
We have mentioned cleaning stations in several of our blog posts. Here is a short video of a Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) being ‘serviced’ at a turtle cleaning station on the Big Island’s Kona Coast. Visits to these cleaning stations are the turtle version of going to a beauty salon for a spa treatment.
Posted by B.N. Sullivan on The Right Blue
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