Australia to Create Largest Protected Marine Park in the World
Australia has recently announced that within approximately three months, an almost 1 million square kilometer marine park will be created in the Coral Sea. The area, which is the size of Germany and France combined, will offically become the largest marine park in the world, suprassing even Britain’s massive marine preserve surrounding Chagos Archipelago in the [...]
Time for Aquarium Hobbyists to Get Informed
A few days ago, I was browsing the usual bunch of aquarium related forums and noticed a thread about a particular piece of Hawaiian legislation. Despite there already being a seemingly unlimited number of these threads scattered across hundreds of forum sites, I was drawn to this one for some reason. Perhaps the thread title, [...]
Kole Tang, It’s What’s for Dinner
If keeping fish in our aquariums is considered immoral by the anti-aquarium activists of Hawaii, then what about eating them? Both practices permanently remove fish from the ocean, with one focusing on keeping them alive long term and the other worried about filling the space between breakfast and dinner. The grainy video above, which was [...]
MASNA Starts HawaiiBanFactCheck to Counter Anti-Aquarium Misinformation
A few of weeks ago, I got to sit in on a MASNA Live talk centered around the anti-aquarium activists in Hawaii. It was discussed, at length, about what organization or individual might potentially take the reins of the fight and become the face of the aquarium industry. A few suggestions were tossed into the [...]
SeaWeb Commercial Appears During Super Bowl
While most of the Super Bowl commercials were centered around beer, Doritos, and career building, one of them had our oceans in mind. Airing to viewers in the San Francisco Bay area predominantly, the “SeaWeb Commercial” runs a little more than 30 seconds but includes vivid imagery of various ocean animals, including a whale, a [...]
Petition to Stop the Hawaiian Fishing Ban
We’ve already introduced this petition to stop the ban on Hawaiian aquarium collection once before, but given its recent resurgence in popularity on social media websites like Facebook, we decided to write about it again to help keep the momentum going in any way we could. The petition is a simple one. It asks for [...]
Jeff Corwin’s Thoughts on the Kona Fishery
According to a recent article in West Hawaii Today, animal expert and television personality Jeff Corwin recently visited the reefs of Kona to gather footage for three upcoming episodes of his popular show “Ocean Mysteries”. Each episode will focus on monk seals, green sea turtles, and the vast amount of ocean life respectively, and the visit gave Jeff the [...]
Ret Talbot, One Man Making a Huge Impact on Issues of the Aquarium Trade
A short time back, I was privileged enough to sit in on a wonderful MASNA Live discussion centered around the aquarium trade’s battles in Hawaii against anti-aquarium pro-tourism activists. In that talk, someone pointed out that we, the aquarium community, needed to do a better job of fighting the misinformation and moral arguments proposed by [...]
Back and Forth Banter on Hawaiian Aquarium Ban in Video
We recently discovered a little video dialogue from C Harding Productions showing both supporters and opponents of aquarium collection in Hawaii. The arguments are fairly well represented from both sides, as experts from different viewpoints chime in as to why each issue is important. We get to hear the typical points, but one individual struck [...]
Battle of the Hawaiian Fisheries: Aquarium vs Recreational
Over on CORAL Magazine’s website, Ret Talbot recently updated aquarium hobbyists about the continuing and future legal battles the industry is facing in Hawaii, centering on the upcoming 2012 legislative session. While we’re still reading over and digesting his lengthy article and the associated ramifications we’ll likely see from anti-aquarium legislation, we’ve decided to highlight [...]
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