Lecturer in marine top predator conservation @sosbangor.bsky.social
I research: sharks & rays | marine historical ecology | fisheries | conservation 🏊🤿🎣🐟 PI of @projectfishistory.bsky.social
Pic: Smoothtooth blacktip shark (Carcharhinus leiodon)
Alec BM Moore
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Marine historical ecology research can tell us about what our seas were like in the past
...and what people were reading at the time....
Herring wine made me search for this
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On #WorldOceanDay, @fao.org launches the #CommonOceans Deepwater Shark ID Key, a new digital tool helping fishers, observers & scientists identify deepwater shark species & improve the data needed for sustainable fisheries.
Learn more 👉 https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v4/deepsea-sharks/
🚴 #FSBI2026 travel update!
Planning your trip to Southampton? The city is well connected by road & air, with easy local links to conference venues.
Details: tinyurl.com/FSBI2026Trav...
🌍 Consider lower carbon travel and share your journey for the Green Travel Awards #FSBIGreenTravel
"Traditionally the oarfish was known to many as the Herring King, since it was thought to guide the fickle herring shoals through the waves and towards those hungry and waiting along the coast."
From the latest North Sea dispatches: northseanexus.substack.com/p/ghost-nets...
Alec BM Moore
Miguel Clavero
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Some interesting medicinal uses of herring🐟 in the mid-18th Century...
@projectfishistory.bsky.social
Save Our Seas Foundation Conservation Fellow Dr Issah Seidu is one of the winners of the 2026 Whitley Award for Nature.
He is using the award to expand his work into more community-led conservation action/
saveourseas.com/giving-ghana...
🦈 Fantastic rare footage released this #WorldOceansDay of a Great White in the Central Mediterranean!
#greatwhiteshark #shark
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
🦭 Does environmental complexity shape behaviour? Across 5 sea lion species, environmental heterogeneity promoted greater #behaviouraldiversity, while low-productivity #habitats favoured specialist strategies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/ddi....
Save Our Seas Foundation Conservation Fellow Dr Issah Seidu is one of the winners of the 2026 Whitley Award for Nature. He is using the award to expand his work into more community-led conservation ac...
English physician Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654) wrote that eels could be used to treat alcoholism:
"Eels being put in wine or beer, and suffered to die in it, he that dranks it will never endure that sort of liquour again"
It seems that more recent estrategies (using Disulfiram) could work similarly
Miguel Clavero
A new research roundup from ESA Journals!📰
From art as ecological data to owl-powered pest control, clownfish biodiversity, nature’s rights, bird responses to predators & fin whale hotspots—discover the latest insights: https://ow.ly/uNIw50Z9V2s
