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#JacquesWeek returns! Falling glaciers, fish that don’t eat plastic, sharks and the women who study them, and more! Monday Morning Salvage: July 16, 2018

Posted on July 16, 2018July 15, 2018 By Andrew Thaler
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Foghorn (A Call to Action!)

  • Jacques Week is coming! Have no fear. Our annual answer to Shark Week’s ocean madness will be back for a forth season!

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • Saving the Vaquita was always about understanding human cultures and how social structures intersect with the ecosystem. Investigation reveals illegal trade cartels decimating vaquita porpoises.
Fishermen with an illegal haul of totoaba. Image courtesy of Elephant Action League.
  • Keep beating this drum until it sinks in: Plastic Straw Bans Leave Out People With Disabilities.
  • Climate change may be a boon for archaeology: Scorching Heat Wave Reveals Signs of Ancient Civilization in the UK.
Photo: Toby Driver (RCAHMW)

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

  • When conservation steps out of the wild and into the Anthropocene.
  • Orcas of the Pacific Northwest Are Starving and Disappearing. Yikes.
  • This week in some actual hope spots for a change:
    • Island of Coral Resilience Shows Hope – and Limits – for Reefs’ Future.
    • Hope in isolation: four small islands are defying current threats to ocean health.
    • Could The Ocean Floor Be a Permanent CO2 Vault?
  • Yes, please. Spectacular Photos Reveal a Deep Sea Coral Garden off Northern Sicily.
  • See a Giant Iceberg Fall Into the Sea.
  • Not all marine fish eat plastics. Whew.

Erasing these zero results with broad-brush claims that equalize risk across all people, all landscapes or all fish overlooks crucial differences in practices, exposures and futures that do not apply equally to everyone and everything.

Max Liboiron

  • Ancient seafarers may have hunted whales around the world and Rediscovering the Forgotten Whales of the Mediterranean Sea.
  • What Footage From 1980s Bike Races Can Teach Us About Climate Change.
  • Pacific experts press for sustainable deep-sea mining.
  • Greenland Sharks Undeterred by Shark-Repelling Hooks. To the shark’s detriment, its vacuum-like feeding technique allows it to bypass the repelling effect of magnetic fishing hooks.
  • Why Florida’s Largest Lake Is Filled With Toxic Algae, Again.
  • How Rats Remake Coral Reefs. By eating seabirds, the rodents weaken the flow of nutrients into the oceans, endangering coral reefs and the fish that live there.
  • How first eight of 12 trapped Thai schoolboys were rescued from the cave.
  • Sharks & Female Scientists: More Alike than You Think.

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

  • Stratmann and friends (2018) Abyssal plain faunal carbon flows remain depressed 26 years after a simulated deep-sea mining disturbance. DOI: 10.5194/bg-15-4131-2018.
  • Dunn and friends (2018) A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on
    mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar4313.
  • Nahuelhual and friends (2018) On super fishers and black capture: Images of illegal fishing in artisanal fisheries of southern Chile. DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2018.06.020.
  • Barton and friends (2018) Testing the AC/DC hypothesis: Rock and roll is noise pollution and weakens a trophic cascade. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4273.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • DC Comics Aquaman and Jabberjaw #1. Look, we all need a break from the doom and gloom that is ocean conservation in the Age of Treason. This one is a lot funnier and more thoughtful than you might expect.

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