by Ret Talbot | Dec 15, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is set to publish a proposed rule to list the Banggai Cardinalfish (Pterapogon kauderni) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as early as today [12/16/2014]. This news comes upon the completion of an extended status...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 11, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
via National Marine Fisheries Service, originally published Sept. 4, 2014 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 4, 2014 NOAA Fisheries released a draft recovery plan today for Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals [Acropora palmata, and A. cervicornis respectively – Ed.]. Both...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 9, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
Letter to MASNA – This is a republication of a PDF-formatted email received by CORAL Magazine editors on Sept 9th, 2014. You can download the original document here. PET INDUSTRY JOINT ADVISORY COUNCIL 1146 19th Street, N.W., Ste 350 Washington, DC 20036...
by Ret Talbot | Sep 5, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Special to CORAL from Ret Talbot’s Good Catch Blog, September 3, 2014 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) found that the orange clownfish (also commonly called the percula clownfish and bearing...
by Ret Talbot | Aug 29, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine
As the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) gets under way in Denver, Colorado, this week, some aquarists are worried about what a new federal listing of 20 coral species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) could mean for the aquarium trade....
