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Monday Morning Salvage: February 6, 2017

Posted on February 6, 2017 By Andrew Thaler
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Bringing you the best of marine science and conservation from the last week.

Flotsam (what we’re obsessed with right now)

  • The ridiculous, extensible jaw and neck joint of a Barbeled Dragonfish.

  • Deep-Sea Fishes That Are Built to Eat Big.

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

  • Majestically breaching humpback whales are probably yelling. At you, probably. You know what you did.
  • Lead bullets still dominate the U.S. ammunition market despite ample evidence showing that they pose real environmental and health risks. Bullet Proof from Lynne Peeples.
  • The Mystery of the 19th-Century Maine Marine Monster by Rachel Fritts.
  • #TeamSkynet for life. Swarm of underwater robots helps scientists study ocean dynamics.
  • The 7 Wonderful Pikes, Pickerels, and Muskies of the World, from our friends over at the Fisheries Blog.
  • Finally, Deep Sea News asks the all important question: How do bone-eating worms eat bones?

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

  • Aylesworth and friends (2017) Seahorses (Hippocampus spp.) as a case study for locating cryptic and data-poor marine fishes for conservation. Animal Conservation. doi:10.1111/acv.12332.
  • Haas and friends (2017) The contemporary economic value of elasmobranchs in The Bahamas: Reaping the rewards of 25 years of stewardship and conservation. Biological Conservation. doi.org:10.1016/j.biocon.2017.01.007.
  • Redfern and friends (2017) Predicting cetacean distributions in data-poor marine ecosystems. Diversity and Distributions. doi:10.1111/ddi.12537.
  • Schakner and friends (2017) Can fear conditioning repel California sea lions from fishing activities? Animal Conservation. doi:10.1111/acv.12329
  • Lubchenco (2017) Environmental science in a post-truth world. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. doi:10.1002/fee.1454.

Driftwood (what we’re reading on dead trees)

  • It continues to be ominously hilarious that the International Seabed Authority refers to themselves as “The Authority” international seabed as “The Area”. The Authority want your comments on The Area. Developing a Regulatory Framework for Mineral Exploitation in the Area.

Derelicts (favorites from the deep archive)

  • Sizing Sizing Ocean Giants: Patterns of #scicomm outreach in a marine megapaper.

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