Cuttings (short and sweet): 

• Follow shark and ray biologist Jeremy Vaudo on twitter!
• Science may have a reason why whales get so big. By Carrie Arnold, for National Geographic.
• Paleo profile: The fish from China. By Brian Switek, for Scientific American.
• Mass stranding in Australia claims 130 whales. Video, for the Guardian.

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

• Newfoundland cod stocks suffer serious and surprising decline. By Jessica Leder, for the Globe and Mail.
• Under the sea: life is the bubbles in newly discovered deep reef zone. By Basten Gokkon, for MongaBay
• Scientists just fast-forwarded ocean acidification on a coral reef. By Maddie Stone, for Earther.
• Can Aquaculture solve the fishing crisis in the South China Sea? By Zhang Hongzhou, for the Diplomat.
• To save whales, Maine’s lobster fishery must change. By Fred Bever, for NPR.
• Ocean scientists forecast huge plankton blooms in the Arabian sea. By Jeff Tollefson, for Nature News.
• Fish crossing genetic borders as oceans warm. By Matthew Berger, for OceansDeeply.

Please add your own cuttings and spoils in the comments!

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