News Article: October/November 2008Local NewsMataitai Reserve1-10-2008A Mataitai Reserve over waters surrounding Mt Maunganui and part of Tauranga Harbour in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty is effective 25 September 2008. More Whale of a plan to challenge Japan1-10-2008Anti-whaling allies Australia and New Zealand announced a plan for a non-lethal whale research programme in Antarctic waters which conservationists say will challenge Japan’s programme that kills up to 1000 whales annually. More Sharks send tropical postcard1-10-2008Great white sharks in New Zealand waters may head for Australia each spring to hunt for food. More JV wins subsea pipeline contracts1-10-2008Technip and Subsea 7’s joint venture company, Technip Subsea 7 Asia Pacific Pty Ltd (TS7), won two contracts for subsea installation and pipeline supply projects in New Zealand and Vietnam. More Marine reserve on Wellington coast1-10-2008The Taputeranga reserve extends 2.3km out to sea and along 3.3km of coastline encompassing Owhiro, Island and Houghton Bays. A fishing ban is in place as a measure to preserve marine life. More SOS! Greenpeace calls fishing future1-10-2008Greenpeace launched a consumer seafood campaign and released a ‘Red Fish’ guide listing 12 of the world’s most at-risk oceans species, including popular but in peril species such as orange roughy, tuna and arrow squid More Foodies and fishers to stop shark finning1-10-2008Some of New Zealand’s best-known foodies and fishers have signed Forest & Bird’s pledge to help stop shark finning. More International NewsAmazing WWII graveyard revealed1-10-2008Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon’s graveyard of the Japanese wartime fleet is revealed for the first time. It shows the full scale of America’s vengeance, 12 times more destructive than the infamous attack on America’s Navy base at Pearl Harbour. More National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration helps build DNA bar code library1-10-2008Imagine scanning a DNA bar code on a piece of fish to instantly verify a species, where it came from, its nutritional value and other valuable information. More Shipwreck fuels invasion1-10-2008Aggressive invaders are spreading through a coral reef in Hawaii thanks to a shipwreck that ran aground in the remote Palmyra Atoll in 1991. More Baby turtles march into Italian restaurant1-10-2008About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead. More Underwater archaeologists explore prehistoric submerged forest1-10-2008Underwater archaeologists are taking to Loch Tay, Scotland to try to uncover more about submerged prehistoric woodland. More Seals help unlock ocean secrets1-10-2008Sensors developed by the University of St Andrews, Scotland, have been employed by Antarctic researchers to collect otherwise inaccessible information about the climate. More Team links wrecks with war records1-10-2008British divers explored the wrecks of WW2 tanks and other military hardware off the coast of West Sussex. A team, from Southsea Sub-Aqua Club, spent five days surveying a site eight miles out in Bracklesham Bay, where two tanks, two bulldozers and a field gun lie at 20m. More Island threatened by WWII oil tanker1-10-2008A sunken oil tanker, one of dozens on the bottom of Micronesia’s Chuuk Lagoon is releasing streams of purple diesel bubbles. At the end of July, the oil slick was five kilometres long. More Metals repel sharks from fishing gear?1-10-2008A recent study by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists on captive juvenile sandbar sharks show the presence of an electropositive alloy clearly altered the swimming patterns of individual animals and temporarily deterred feeding in groups of sharks More Flippers from around the world1-10-2008Bottlenose dolphins suffering food shortages may be killing sibling species to take out the competition, scientists have warned. More Wedding ring found after 89 years1-10-2008The wedding ring of a World War I sailor, which was found on the seabed 89 years after a naval warship ran aground, is going on display in Orkney. More Israeli diver finds rare artefact1-10-2008A rare 2,500-year-old marble discus was found by an Israeli lifeguard diving in the underwater antiquities site of Yavne-Yam, an ancient port city settled in the middle Bronze Age. More Fishing throws species off balance1-10-2008A new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, demonstrated that fishing can alter the ‘age pyramid’ by lopping off the few large, older fish from the top of the pyramid, leaving a broad base of faster growing, small younglings. More Researchers to explore ‘lost world’ five kilometres beneath Caribbean1-10-2008A team of researchers led by Jon Copley of University of Southampton’s School of Ocean and Earth Science will explore the Cayman Trough between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands which plunges to more than 5,000 metres and contains the world’s deepest chain of undersea volcanoes. More Wreck in the Thames1-10-2008The largest-ever post-war salvage operation on England’s Thames River discovered seven shipwrecks up to 350 years old. More Treasure hunters plundering wrecks1-10-2008Heritage listed wrecks are being plundered in Darwin Harbour by rogue divers. More Fossil found1-10-2008A Queensland Museum curator found the most intact skeleton ever discovered of a 100-million-year-old fish More $2,000 fine for cutting shark’s throat1-10-2008A recreational fisherman was fined for killing an endangered grey nurse shark hooked in waters off Forster, New South Wales, mid-north coast. More World’s largest protected marine area1-10-2008Australia’s federal government is being urged to establish a vast conservation area in the Coral Sea to protect marine animals, reefs and World War II history. More |
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