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Nov 2006

NCUPS Winners Announced

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NCUPS has announced the results of their SEA 2006 competion:

Winners of SEA2006

A bunch of links for you...

No time to write longer intros for all these, but here are a bunch of links from around the web for you:

AP Wire | 10/31/2006 | Scientist says large coral disappearing

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish

eBay.co.uk: Buy back an Icelandic whale's life

Download latest issue of UwP Magazine

World Festival of Underwater Pictures

More than 13 tons of derelict fishing gear has been removed from the fragile coral reef environment of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument
NOAA News Online (Story 2733)

Ocean fish, seafood could collapse by 2048: study - Yahoo! News

Stop the Online Trading of Shark Parts | Ocean Realm Society

The Japan Times Online - Dolphin kill dogged by mercury, activists

No time for diving? Try your washing machine:
YouTube - Ariston - Aqualtis

Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems, French Frigate Shoals Cruise Discovers 100 New Species

The research cruise that our LA History Museum sponsor Leslie Harris is on has discovered 100 new species. Hopefully Leslie found plenty of worms:

HONOLULU - Researchers on a three-week mission to the remote French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands discovered 100 species never seen in the area before, including many that may be entirely new to science.

"There were lots of organisms that people were saying, 'Wow! What's that?'" said Joel Martin, a zoologist for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

New aquatic species found in Hawaii - Yahoo! News