A World First: The Australian Rock Lobster is Now Sustainably Aquacultured
On Christmas Day of 2020, a Tasmanian company called Ornatas produced their first aquacultured baby Australian Rock Lobster also called the Southern Rock Lobster. This came to be after scaling up...
In November of 2020, a diesel sheen was spotted in the Rudee Inlet area by the Virginia Beach Fire Department. That night a hazardous materials crew from the Virginia Beach Fire Department arrived on...
How Marine Researchers Are Using Robots to Restore Our Coral Reefs
In 2018 during the Great Barrier Reef's annual spawning event, the Queensland University of Technology deployed a "LarvalBot". This submersible robot assisted the corals with their re-population...
How the Largest Manta Ray Fishery in the World was Turned into a Marine Sanctuary
The world’s largest manta ray fishery is located in Eastern Flores, Indonesia where the remote community of Lamakera resides. For centuries this community has hunted manta rays as a source of food...
How the Critically Endangered Banggai Cardinal is Making a Comeback
While the Banggai Cardinalfish was first described in 1933, in 1994, the species was rediscovered in Indonesia’s Banggai archipelago by prominent ichthyologist Dr. Gerald Allen. Dr. Allen...
In the 1930’s a plant disease and several hurricanes decimated the once abundant eelgrass along Virginia’s coast. This had a direct, negative impact on the clams, crabs and bay scallops that...
