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....
by Matt Pedersen | Aug 29, 2014 | Marine, News & Notes
via NOAA – August 27th, 2014 NOAA lists 20 coral species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act Contact: Connie Barclay (301) 427-8003 (202) 441-2398 (Cell) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 27, 2014 NOAA announced today it will afford Endangered Species Act...
by Ret Talbot | Aug 7, 2014 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
by Ret Talbot – The Good Catch Blog The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) missed a mid-July deadline regarding the listing of the Banggai cardinalfish [Pterapogon kauderni] under the Endangered Species List (ESA). Today a NMFS spokesperson confirmed the...