Tag Archives: shark

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> June 8 is World Oceans Day, when hundreds of aquariums, zoos, museums and conservation organizations, including San Francisco based Shark Stewards, is joining with thousands of people around the world celebrating the ocean. As Bay Area residents we have much to thank the ocean for. We […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Marine Science Today Guest Blog by Michael Bear   “At Ocean Sanctuaries, we believe that the field of citizen science has finally come into its own in the 21st Century. With more and more divers and non-divers alike becoming aware of the critical state of both the oceans and […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> As an active diver and underwater videographer, I have been diving the California coastal marine protected areas, many before they were formed under the Marine Life Protected Act. Last fall I visited La Jolla Cove, one of the oldest marine reserves in the State at La Jolla […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> Here is an article on our project aboard the Research Vessel Sea Watch from Sharkboat.org   http://www.planetexperts.com/captain-chris-wade-fighting-back-poachers-illegal-fishing/

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> As the largest estuary on the west coast of North America, the San Francisco Bay hosts many species of elasmobranchs, the taxonomic group of cartilaginous fishes we know as sharks, skates and rays. Although historically impacted by mining, pollution and habitat loss, the Bay remains an […]