by Ret Talbot | Mar 31, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes, Syndicated Marine Aquarium News
Popular aquarium fish included in a petition to list 81 marine species for Endangered Species Act protection The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is moving forward with the process that could lead to the listing of the Banggai Cardinalfish under the Endangered...
by Ret Talbot | Mar 8, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
As the catastrophic spread of Indo-Pacific lionfish continues in Western Atlantic and Caribbean waters, Florida legislators propose new laws to stop aquarium-trade importations By Ret Talbot Images courtesy of REEF I remember seeing my first lionfish in the wild. It...
by Ret Talbot | Jan 31, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
Landmark new paper says that a sustainable marine aquarium trade may be a key to the future of healthy coral reef areas By Ret Talbot The fate of coral reefs worldwide is now a well-publicized, front-page, six o’clock news crisis. In fact, three marine scientists just...
by Ret Talbot | Dec 18, 2013 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
An Aquarist’s Notes: Turbulence in Hawaii I first went to Hawaii on assignment for CORAL Magazine in 2010, and for the better part of four years I have covered that state’s aquarium fishery. I expected to find a fishery full of complicated regulations and even more...
by CORAL Magazine | Jul 31, 2013 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
Originally posted: 20 July 2012 By Ret Talbot Aquarists Can Expect New, Rare, and Exotic Fishes On a hot Southern California summer afternoon in a Valley warehouse adjacent to Van Nuys airport, an important bit of North American aquarium history occurred. On Saturday,...
by CORAL Magazine | Jun 3, 2013 | CORAL - Matt Pedersen, CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, New Products
UPDATE: Printed hardcover and softeover editions of The Banggai Cardinalfish book will be introduced at the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America, Ft. Lauderdale, August 30th – September 1st, 2013. Books will be exclusively distributed by Two Little...
