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Plastic Free Fish, Chainsaw Lobsters, and Artificial Horseshoe Crab Blood: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, May 17th 2018

Posted on May 17, 2018May 17, 2018 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet): 

  • Follow the Pacific salmon network on twitter!
  • Looking for plastic free fish? Here’s one to put on the menu! By Maggie Gillis, for CBC news
  • Scientists find new deep sea species off Java. BBC slideshow.
  • Unexpected walruses crowd Alaska beach. By the Associated Press.
  • The bigger the mother fish, the more babies she has. By Christopher Joyce, for NPR’s All Things Considered. (And see this paper that Andrew and I were involved with that extends this argument to recreational fishing ethics).

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • Inside the biomedical revolution to save horseshoe crabs. By Deborah Cramer, for Audubon magazine.
  • Arctic sea ice is getting younger. By Chelsea Harvey, for Scientific American
  • Maine’s lobster boom won’t last, but here’s what fisheries are coming next. By Bill Trotter, for the Bangor Daily News.
  • Meet the shrimp with superpowers to see colors we can only imagine. By Paul Tullis, for OceansDeeply.
  • This jellyfish looks like a plastic bag. By Elaina Zachos, for National Geographic.
  • Toxic plastic pollution is traveling up the food chain. By Erica Cirino, for the Revelator.

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