Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)
It’s all hagfish today, baby!
Hagfish appear to use slime to avoid predators like sharks (top) and large fish (bottom). The images above are from videos showing fish eating a hagfish, which then produces slime and is able to escape (Images from wikimediacommons).
- No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime
- Found: The First Fossil of the Slime-Spewing Hagfish and ‘Like finding a sneeze’: fossil identified as 100m-year-old hagfish.
- Slime, baby, slime!
Jetsam (what we’re reading from around the web)
- Belize’s Great Blue Hole has plastic at the bottom of it because of course it does.
- Economically vital Blue Crabs having a hard time dealing with marine hypoxia and acidification.
- Arcade Shark! Doo! Doo! DooDooDooDoo! ‘Galagadon’ shark named after ’80s arcade game due to its oddly shaped teeth.
Lagan (what we’re reading from the peer-reviewed literature)
- Turner and friends, including both me and Amy, who are very good friends, and Patrick, who’s a pretty good dude (2019) Deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystem principles: Identification of ecosystem processes, services and communication of value. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2019.01.003.
- Isaacs and Witbooi (2019) Fisheries crime, human rights and small-scale fisheries in South Africa: A case of bigger fish to fry. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.12.023.
Shipping News (academic and ocean policy wonkery)
- When your research is attacked, an important guide from Discard Studies.
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