Ecology Fisheries Human impacts
Are MPA’s the best way to conserve the seahorse population?
While Marine Protected Areas do a great job of preserving essential marine habitats, and decreasing fishing pressure, they may not…
Author: Valeska Upham
For my fisheries and aquatic science PhD I am working on how to tank raise urchins and transplant them onto reefs across the Florida Keys in order to help reverse the phase shift from algae dominated back to coral dominated.
Ecology Fisheries Human impacts
Beware! Shellfish are taking over the fishing industry
Overfishing has created a cascading effect in the marine food web. Once, large apex predators, such as cod, dominated the…
Biology Ecology
Hawksbill turtles are picky about their water temperature
Hawksbill turtles leave their place of birth and then head out into the world, but they always come back to…
Book Review Fisheries
It’s all about color for the rainbow wrasse
Male rainbow wrasses actively defend their territory and the amount of red light entering the water column has been found…
Ecology Fisheries
Tag you’re it! Reef manta rays are being tagged in the Red Sea
Reef manta rays are being tagged in order to better understand their diving profile. Understanding how long the manta rays…
Ecology Fisheries
How Coral Size Influences Fish Size
Many fish find a coral colony to host in, living their whole life in that same coral. They must pick…
Biology
There’s no place like home
Lemon sharks travel many miles in their lifetime, but once a female becomes sexually mature she will be found right…
Biology
Coral Invasion in the Gulf of Mexico
The black sun coral is "invading" the Gulf! Once settled, it could out-compete other benthic epifauna and change the dynamic…
Fisheries
This Time Around, Humans Aren’t the Bad Guys in the Salmon Fishery
Salmon fishing is a huge industry in the Baltic Sea. So it comes as no surprise that when a predator…
Biology Fisheries
How Our “Trash” Can Aid Juvenile Red Snappers
Cement, limestone, and even old barges are being used in the northern Gulf of Mexico to build additional habitats for…