Tip o’ the hat to Mike L for this sweet find. The manuscripts and plates from the Challenger expedition are available in their entirety online. This is a huge boon for ocean nerds, and I intend to spend considerable time going over it once I…
My esteemed colleague Andrew over at Southern Fried Science made me aware of a piece of gray literature that is directly related to sharks, fishing, and the debate over the shark finning ban currently trying to worm its way through Congress. Gray literature is the…
Unfortunately a punishing round of grading exams and lab reports has kept me from posting since about Monday. I’m through it now, but now I’m far too brain-fried to offer up any substantial posts. While I recover my aching brain, enjoy these offerings from the…
Apologies for all the short posts lately. I’ve got a nice fat research post on deck, so don’t worry. There’s just this matter of a huge stack of stats homework to get through first (damn you, grad school!). In the meantime, check out the latest…
You hear about it all the time: American schools are trailing the rest of the world at science and math, leading to us losing our competitive and creative edge and generally creating a situation where the movie Idiocracy seems painfully prescient. Well, you could sit…
One of the paradoxes of public opinion on dogfish is that they’re simultaneously considered a swimming wall of teeth annihilating everything in their path and wussy, poor excuses for sharks. I’ve heard a lot of hearsay about the “weak bite” and “useless raspy teeth” of…
Both fishing and a lot of marine science are generally all about dropping some bait in the water and seeing what happens. Swiped from Climate Shifts by way of DSN, here’s a selection of possible outcomes when you drop a baited camera in the waters…
Today I’m going to talk about something that has proven to be both a blessing and a curse to fisheries management. I’m going to talk about modeling. Tasteful humor. From Sports Illustrated. Unfortunately we’re not talking about the merits of the 2010 Swimsuit Calender…
“Voracious beyond belief, dogfish deserve their bad reputation among many fishermen.” – Bigelow and Schroeder’s Fishes of the Gulf of Maine As anyone with any kind of familiarity with Squalus acanthias will tell you, these are deeply unpopular animals. Fishermen have cursed the name “dogfish”…