by Ret Talbot | Feb 9, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
Anti-Aquarium activists in Hawaii are using a new tactic in 2015, alleging that the collection and handling of reef fishes for the aquarium trade amounts to “cruel treatment”—but does this stand up to facts gathered by marine scientists? The Data behind...
by Ret Talbot | Sep 5, 2014 | Marine
Underwater altercation when fish collector and group of anti-aquarium activists meet goes to trial Earlier this week, aquarium fisherman Jay Lovell pleaded not guilty in Hawaii to charges of “terroristic threatening” in a widely publicized altercation between Lovell...
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 Anne Linton | Jan 9, 2014 | CORAL Tables of Contents, Marine
SEAHORSES VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1 4 Letter From Europe by Daniel Knop 7 Editor’s Page by James M. Lawrence – Annual Captive Breeding Update 12 Reef News 24 Rarities Coral staff report FEATURE ARTICLES 32 Seahorses by Daniel Knop 40 Care and husbandry of...