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.

Please add your own cuttings and spoils in the comments!

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