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Thursday Afternoon Dredging: February 23rd, 2017

Posted on February 23, 2017February 23, 2017 By David Shiffman
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Cuttings (short and sweet):

Logo by Ethan Kocak
  • Watch this shark walk across a reef during low tide, from the BBC Shark special!
  • Follow the JCU Seagrass Ecology Lab on twitter!
  • Bring out your dead: donation of fish carcasses helps the community. By Henry Hershey, for the Fisheries Blog

Spoils (long reads and deep dives):

  • A tool once used to hunt whales is now used to free them from fishing gear entanglement. By Colleen Uechi, for the Maui News.
  • Watch two rare species fight on this camera trap video!  By Jeremy Hance, for the Guardian.

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