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blogfish: June 2014
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Zombie orcas in Washington. Seattle's orcas are poisoned by PCBs and other toxic chemicals. And they're among the most toxic marine mammals in the world. Here in "nice" Seattle, we're not-so-nice to our neighbors, dumping PCBs and other toxic chemicals into their home. Efforts are underway to stop the poisons, but some say we should go ahead and poison the sound. Posted by Mark Powell. Links to this post. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Posted by Mark Powell.
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blogfish: The jellyfish are coming
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, August 01, 2014. The jellyfish are coming. Kiss your salmon goodbye. Jellyfish are now 86% of the life in Puget Sound. A sign of things gone badly wrong. Nutrient soup from your poop, Noctiluca blooms (red-orange streaks in the water) and the fish start disappearing. Note: proper scientific caution dictates weaselly caution words like perhaps and maybe should be in this post, so consider them to be here. See p 27 of link for the 86% finding). Posted by Mark Powell.
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blogfish: Puget Sound in trouble?
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, August 01, 2014. Puget Sound in trouble? I just saw a very scary presentation. Scary, that is, for oceanography wonks. It looks like Puget Sound is changing in ways that people won't like. Fewer fish, lower oxygen, more jellyfish. Thanks to nutrients from sewage treatment plants and some surprising food web changes. You'll know you're seeing it happen if the waters light up, bioluminescence from Noctiluca blooms, as in the funky YouTube video. Posted by Mark Powell.
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blogfish: July 2014
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, July 18, 2014. Ocean fertilization experiment reviewed. Remember the rogue scientists who sprinkled iron in the Pacific Ocean off Canada? Andy Revkin reviews the evidence and comments on the significance of the results. The iron made a plankton bloom, but the experiment was too small to be significant beyond that. No big impact on CO2 or salmon. By the way, I'm reading an interesting new book on rogue ocean scientists, it's a fascinating subject. More later. Swim Aroun...
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blogfish: Ocean snails relieve chronic pain
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Wednesday, November 15, 2006. Ocean snails relieve chronic pain. Not just another pretty shell, an ocean cone snail may help people with chronic nerve pain like sciatica. Ocean cone snails are beautiful but deadly, with toxic venom that can be fatal to humans. Isolated and used carefully, certain toxins can be useful medicines for difficult tasks such as pain relief. Posted by Mark Powell. I like your blog. Thank you. They are really great . Some new style Puma Cat. Only becau...
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blogfish: Natural disasters and ocean ecosystems
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Tuesday, March 15, 2011. Natural disasters and ocean ecosystems. How did the Japanese earthquake and resulting tsunami affect the oceans? Really, we don't know, but it's nearly certain that ocean effects are less dramatic than effects on people. Here's an excerpt from an interesting article on the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia. Man was not alone in feeling the impact. Ecosystems and other species were also hit. Closer to the shore, many natural ecosystems, most notably coral ...
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blogfish: August 2014
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Fish, oceans, conservation. Friday, August 01, 2014. The jellyfish are coming. Kiss your salmon goodbye. Jellyfish are now 86% of the life in Puget Sound. A sign of things gone badly wrong. Nutrient soup from your poop, Noctiluca blooms (red-orange streaks in the water) and the fish start disappearing. Note: proper scientific caution dictates weaselly caution words like perhaps and maybe should be in this post, so consider them to be here. See p 27 of link for the 86% finding). Posted by Mark Powell.
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Ocean's Edge: March 2009
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Travel and Conservation Above and Below the Water by Steve Roper. Saturday, March 21, 2009. Series D of the Ogden Point Panels. Series B of the Ogden Point Panels. Series A of the Ogden Point Signage. Thursday, March 19, 2009. A few years back, Yim and I were lucky enough to have one swim by 50 feet away off the coast of Vancouver Island. Read more here. Thursday, March 12, 2009. Steller, or Northern, Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus). Saturday, March 7, 2009. His natural history photography has appeared in ...
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Ocean's Edge: Lion’s Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata)
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Travel and Conservation Above and Below the Water by Steve Roper. Monday, August 10, 2009. Lion’s Mane Jellyfish (Cyanea capillata). There are two types of cnidarians: the Hydrozoa and the Scyphozoa. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to Ocean's Edge Blog. Ocean's Edge was originally formed by Steve Roper as the name of the small eco-resort he and his wife Yim were building in Belize. The evolution has led our web site promoting travel and increasing the awareness of our global oceans, marin...
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Ocean's Edge: The Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents...
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Travel and Conservation Above and Below the Water by Steve Roper. Monday, September 7, 2009. The Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents. The Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents Marine Protected Area off the coast of Vancouver Island covers a unique deep water ecosystem. Deep ocean areas normally have sparse marine animal abundance, but in the vent flows, abundances can range up to half a million marine animals per square metre. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Welcome to Ocean's Edge Blog. The Endeavour Hydrothermal V...
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