Ten years ago today, Adelita, a female loggerhead sea turtle, was about halfway across the Pacific Ocean, a few hundred miles northwest of Hawaii. Adelita was the first sea turtle to wear a radio transmitter bonded to her shell, and head out across the Pacific Ocean. She was originally captured…
By Casey Adams, Ph.D. As we look to the ocean increasingly for nutrition, we face concerns not only of profitability and market size, but also of sustainability and stewardship. Over the past two years two important studies have been released—the Pew Oceans Commission Final Report and the Congress’ Oceans Commissions…
Martin A. Hall, Hideki Nakano, Shelley Clark, Simon Thomas, Janice Molloy, S. Hoyt Peckham, Laudino-Santillán, Wallace J. Nichols, Eric Gilman, Jim Cook, et. al., Working with fisheries to reduce by-catch, Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2007, Volume 7, Pages 235-288. Humans have been harvesting fish for at…
SANTA CRUZ — While most people seem to appreciate the beauty of the sea, many treat it like a huge garbage dump. This behavior is building up a toxic amount of plastics in the ocean that could one day endanger the sea, all sea life and humanity itself.Local resident Fran…
