Sea monsters and saving kelp: Thursday Afternoon Dredging, April 12, 2018
Cuttings (short and sweet):
- Follow graduate student Justine Hudson, who studies arctic marine mammals, on twitter.
- Prehistoric “sea monster” could be largest that ever lived. By John Pickrell, for National Geographic.
- Right whales think before they speak. By Jason Goldman, for Scientific American.
- UK could create 5,000 jobs by improving seafood sustainability. By Fiona Harvey, for the Guardian.
Spoils (long reads and deep dives):
- California mobilizes to save kelp, but will it be in vain? From OceansDeeply
- How getting fishing right can protect other threatened marine species. By Doug Rader, for the EDF blog.
- Marine noise is disturbing fish, physically and mentally. By Richard Kemeney, for Hakai.
- How to help penguins. By David Oehler, for MongaBay.
Please add your own cuttings and spoils in the comments!
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