Sea News from the Internet
Time for a quick round-up of the latest sea news from the internet:
- Vampire squid are threatened by human activity. Also true of practically everything else in the ocean.
- Will blobfish invade? This seems to be basically a puff piece written so they could publish the picture of a really ugly fish.
- A giant prehistoric fish was discovered to be a filter feeder. This is perhaps not so surprising because most of the biggest creatures in the ocean today, such as whale sharks, manta rays and many whales, also feed this way.
- Japan plans to reject any ban on bluefish tuna harvesting. Why? Because they eat about 80% of the world’s catch and apparently they’d rather continue doing so no matter how endangered it becomes.
(Hat tip to Nadia for alerting me to most of these news stories.)