Eat hagfish, work at LUMCON, clone Vaquita, question floating trash collectors, and more! Monday Morning Mega-Salvage: August 13, 2018

Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

Hagfish (just Hagfish)

The Gam (conversations from the ocean-podcasting world)

Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)

We’re trying something a little different this week, with a couple of large categories to cover big, frequent themes as well as your regular link round up.

Two ships converge on the high seas.

Ecuador’s patrol vessel bears down on the Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999, a fish carrier vessel loaded with illegal and endangered sharks.
Courtesy of the Ecuadorian Navy

Pilots prepare to fly into a hurricane.

Lieutenant Commander Rebecca Waddington (left) and Captain Kristie Twining (right) prepare to hunt some hurricanes.

A hotel that looks like a shipwreck in the desert.

Image via Instagram.

Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

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