Earlier this year, I interviewed Scott Crowe of OSA Corals and in that live interview, I boldly stated my mission statement for this year. For those of you who have not seen the interview, my mission for this year was to highlight aquaculture and conservation (what we are doing to combat the dire [...]
Poma Labs, a new company co-founded by Dr. Matt Wittenrich and Nuri Fisher, has reached a milestone in captive breeding of ornamental marine fishes by bringing 9 species and hybrids of the magnificent Chaetodontoplus genus to the aquarium market. I talked with Dr. Matt and learned about his [...]
Eurogroup for Animals (based in Brussels) is asking MEPs, ahead of the May elections, to sign a pledge to work towards banning the import of wild caught animals OATA (The Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association) Chief Executive Keith Davenport sees it as the hobby being under threat: “Taken to [...]
How close are we? “This Close”! It occurred to me that sometimes we use the phrase “this close” in idle conversation, often holding up our fingers perhaps a centimeter apart, as if to give an actual indication of dimension when what we’re really trying to convey is is [...]
I’ve been sitting on this post for a few months as it fermented and festered in my brain. In the past couple of years anti-aquarium activists in Hawaii have been leading a charge against the fishery that harvests wild marine fish from Hawaii’s coastal waters for use in aquariums. I [...]
This isn’t the first time that a Rising Tide organized cross-institutional collaborative breeding project has grabbed headlines this year, but this may be the biggest proof-of-concept to-date. The image above shows the larval development of Heniochus diphreutes, the Schooling Bannerfish, to [...]
Now that MACNA 2011 is over, it’s time to talk about one of the things that really impressed me. The speaker presentations that I attended were great, the trade show was nothing less than huge, and chatting with everyone was a blast, but one thing really stood out. On [...]
For those of you that will be attending the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America (MACNA) next weekend, the Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) has a set up a short presentation followed by a panel discussion. Chad Penney will be giving a presentation on the overall goals of the MBI and how [...]