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Aquarium shark gets his freedomTuesday, March 20, 2012
Osbourne the shark went from the North Rock Exhibit to North Rock itself as he was released into the wild.
BAMZ shark goes wild
Monday, March 19, 2012
MONDAY, MARCH 19: The Department of Conservation Service today announced that it has released its seven-year-old male Galapagos shark back into the wild for health reasons.
Unlocking the Secrets of Sea Turtle Migration
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Newswise — Sea turtles have long and complex lives; they can live into their 70s or 80s and they famously return to their birthplace to nest. But new research suggests this isn’t the only big migration in a sea turtle’s life.
Fishing proposal is at odds with Blue Halo project, charges OBA
Monday, February 27, 2012
Proposed licencing for foreign fishing vessels stands in complete conflict with plans to preserve the ocean around Bermuda, according to Shadow Environment Minister Michael Fahy.
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By Dr. S.R. Smith
Curator, Natural History Museum
The sailing research vessel Sea Dragon headed out to sea on Friday, June 5th to gather data on the Sargassum community around Bermuda, sponsored by the BAMZ support charities, the Atlantic Conservation Partnership and the Bermuda Zoological Society.
Dr. Robbie Smith, Curator of the Natural History Museum, led the team of Bermudian and US scientists and students for a three day expedition south of Bermuda. The crew consisted of Amy Harvey of the Bermuda College and two of her students, Joshua Stevens and Gary Taylor, Abbie Caldas of Greenrock, Kyla Smith from BIOS, Hannah Frith, a Bermudian undergraduate from Oberlin College, graduate student Pearce Cooper from the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama, graduate student Leslie Acton from Duke University and her professor Dr. Lisa Campbell.
The team collected Sargassum and described the diverse community within the seaweed. Pearce hoped to collect many fishes for comparison to his work in the Gulf of Mexico. Leslie is a marine policy student, and she and Lisa wanted a close-up look at Bermuda’s EEZ, as part of their study on Bermuda’s approach to ocean governance. Other work included surface tows to estimate floating plastic marine debris, night-time plankton tows to catch small vertically migrating deepwater fishes and also the deployment of a vertical longline to catch deepwater fishes and squids. Dr. Smith also kept an eye out for seabirds.