As I pointed out earlier this week, Biota NC has taken up production of many of the “cleanup crew” species offered at The Biota Group. As I also mentioned, we are the smallest facility (by a long shot) among the Biota network. Our size, therefore, is often the...
Recent Content
Biota NC
Along the southeast coast of North Carolina, overlooking Bogue Sound and the barrier island of Bogue Banks, is the town of Morehead City, the home of Biota’s newest and smallest marine ornamental fish hatchery. It’s become known, unofficially, as Biota NC and it...
A Taste of the Tropics on Christmas Morning
In many neighborhoods, there's a special time between Christmas morning and Christmas dinner, when (weather permitting), people leave their houses and go outside to play with their new footballs, frisbees, drones, bicycles.... whatever they've gotten that is not...
Monday Archives: Drifters- A look at some Sargassum invertebrates
With a huge mass of Gulf Stream water much closer to shore than usual, we've had a rare opportunity here in New York to examine Sargassum communities. Out on an excursion with Reel Science Charters last week, Captain Greg Metzger was accommodating enough to let me...
Long Island Collecting Log: Two new range records
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a Long Island fish collecting update, largely because I no longer live there. But 2023 is turning out to be a special year for the tropical strays that spend a fleeting month or two in the waters of the northeastern US before they...
SCUBA Dive report from Radio Island, NC
My son and I have been spoiled in recent weeks with opportunities to dive on some amazing shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina. We’ve been blessed with near ideal conditions and massive aggregations of sharks, making for some of the most exciting underwater...
Finn Gardner, Reef Photographer
Eleven years ago, an underwater photographer was born. His name was Finn Gardner. Two weeks ago, he captured these images on his first nitrox dive, with his new GoPro. These were all taken on the wreck of the Caribsea, a freighter that was sunk by a German torpedo in...
Monday Archives: It’s Never Too Early to Start
As new parents, Ashleigh and I are faced with novel challenges on a daily basis. Among them are the universal dilemma of how to balance parenting with all of the other things we love to do; and then there’s making sure that the values that are dear to us, like our...
Happy Shark Week!
I love Shark Week. Not for the shows. They are mostly terrible, and I can’t watch them. I love it because it gets people thinking and talking about sharks. Although I was brought up in the age of Jaws (My dad took me to see it in the theater and I was creeped out in...
Reef Art: What is it Good For?
One of the great things about having incredibly talented people in your life is that when you need an outstanding gift for someone, it’s easy to nail it. The older I get, the less I want to give or receive material things as gifts, as so much of this stuff just ends...