The official vote is in from West Pacific Fishery Council. Every single Pacific National Monument will be opened to commercial fishing. Longlines in Papahānaumokuākea All fishing gear in Rose Atoll The entire Marianas Trench reserve gone 1M+ square miles, >80% of US protected waters abolished

Following our success in Miami Beach, Fish Defender is launching a campaign to ban shark fishing on Marco Island, where fishermen have made a mockery of shark protection laws and gotten away with it for years. Please sign the petition in thread & send an email to [email protected].

Land based #shark #fishing is banned in Miami Beach! Join me Thursday night for an interview with @unpopularscience.bsky.social to learn how he and his nonprofit Fish Defender helped make it possible! www.twitch.tv/sharkg33k

"[Feed the People! and Meat] bring a passion to the affluent society’s intractable modern dilemma of what to eat. As Rosenberg and Dutkiewicz say, it is a dilemma probably most effectively addressed without preaching." A wonderful review in @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/403a...

Fishermen are posting revenge killings of sharks on social media to retaliate against our ban on shark fishing in Miami Beach. Miss me with the sustainable fishing coexistence bullshit.

Fish welfare isn’t just about space or food—it’s about oxygen. A new essay urges a rethink of animal-welfare models 🐟💧 bit.ly/essayoxygen

VICTORY: SHARK FISHING BANNED ON MIAMI BEACH!!! 🦈🦈🦈 This makes it the biggest city in the US to ban land-based shark fishing gear — and it won’t be the last, we are just getting started. If you want to protect your local beach, check out our toolkit. #MarineLife fishdefender.org/LBSFtoolkit

It cannot be sufficiently stressed that this is exactly what they are trained to do. They are explicitly taught to immediately draw and fire upon suspicion of a gun and continue to shoot until their victim is dead. One of the world’s top police trainers: slate.com/news-and-pol...

The massive and elusive orange filefish exhibiting cryptic behavior: -camouflage display -vertical posture -chest flare incredibly strange and cool animal #Fishwatching #MarineLife

I don’t typically share this type of ‘animal passes benchmark of intelligence’ stuff because it’s an evolutionary fallacy to use the human intellect as a standard of cognitive capacity, but sometimes a video just speaks for itself and also how fucking cute is this come on

The government tried to censor these photos. Wildfires have ripped across the Australian state of Victoria, amid record drought and heatwaves. Renowned wildlife photographer Paul Hilton went to document the aftermath. State troopers accosted and ejected him. His statement below. ⬇️

A damning investigation into ranching on public lands in the US West: huge & growing subsidies, with much going to some of the richest Americans, like Rupert Murdoch; lax rules currently being further weakened; widespread environmental harm - but an industry protected by friends in high places.

It was always a whole milk campaign. RFK publicly announced promoting whole milk in the new dietary guidelines in *July*. They are reintroducing whole milk to the school lunch program, which forces a milk carton into every child’s meal. Food is political, people!

The world’s single most successful zero-deforestation policy is hanging by a thread. The Amazon’s best shield is cracking: Why the Soy Moratorium must be defended www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

GOOD NEWS: There’s a bill in the Florida legislature to protect endangered wildlife from aquarium capture. BAD NEWS: They’re trying to water it down. We’re calling on people to send comments and letters. 🧵

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

Abundance agenda: -millions of grunts -fuck ICE #MarineLife

We got the upside-down dietary guidelines from political maneuvering, not a science-based process. It has a scientific committee, touted as backing this report, but it likely installed to justify pre-held beliefs of RFK Jr & MAHA, who love animal products 1/ www.businessinsider.com/rfk-new-diet...

A masked ICE agent murdered a woman in Minneapolis. DHS released a statement saying he was defending himself. He shot her in the face at point blank through the side window.

mantas in Miami #MarineLife

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 per cent of sun-like stars

new study on environmental impacts of AI data centers: -power demand nearing that of the UK -carbon pollution equivalent to NYC -water consumption comparable to all bottled water corporations combined www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

NEW: Public records show Florida licenses capture of thousands of wild sharks and rays to major aquarium corporations around the world. >2/3 of animals permitted for capture were IUCN-redlisted. 95% of licenses list one contractor — remember this name — Dynasty Marine 🧵

TOMORROW: Dropping a huge public record investigation into Florida’s massive legal pipeline of sharks and rays to captivity in aquaria around the world — even the most accredited aquarium corporations are stocking their tanks with wild-captured endangered species. Stay tuned.

Remember the video of the endangered manta ray captured from the wild for SeaWorld UAE under a special license from Florida Fish & Wildlife? We pulled every FWC aquarium capture permit for sharks and rays in the last 10 years. Here’s what we found: (investigation ongoing)

Still 6018 signatures.💔 Please sign-share the petition of @unpopularscience.bsky.social ✍️ www.change.org/p/stop-socia... "These sharks are not hooked by accident, as the process of catching/reeling them requires specific bait such as stingrays and expensive equipment such as massive reels, ..."🦈

Sentient’s analysis of 940 climate news stories across 11 outlets found that 96.2 percent made no mention of meat or livestock production as a cause of climate change. This makes animal agriculture the least covered theme in climate reporting.

Monsanto scientists ghostwrote this paper claiming the company’s proprietary glyphosate & roundup herbicides had no risk to human health. 25 years & 1300 citations later, it has finally been retracted — 8 years after the collusion was exposed. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ridley is a young male manta. Last weekend, he was hooked by a fisherman after divers watched them cast lines in his path. An aerial survey yesterday found 3 of 4 mantas off South FL dragging fishing line. We’re fighting for a no-take protected area for Ridley and the other mantas. #MarineLife

On any given night, millions of nets and lines are cast off bridges in Florida, often illegally. Any time they get snagged, it becomes ghost gear, killing wildlife on the seafloor until someone goes down there and removes it.

Greens leader @larissawaters.bsky.social has the joined the #RisingTide blockade of the world's biggest coal port 💚 "We don't need anymore coal and gas"‼️

EAGLE RAY CITY obsessed with this underwater overgrown brutalism aesthetic #MarineLife

Nice perspective by @unpopularscience.bsky.social in @currentaffairs.bsky.social. Debates on AI consciousness persist, yet the scientific consensus on animal consciousness is robust & necessitates a change in assumptions. #bioethics #animalrights

Pack hunting is a social behavior that demonstrates cooperation between predators. Once thought a uniquely mammalian capability, we now acknowledge pack hunting behavior across the animal kingdom, including many fish species. This interspecific jack pack is especially impressive. #MarineLife

“Sentience is ill-defined. Many confuse it with consciousness or self-awareness, but its etymology stems from the Latin word sentire: to feel.” @unpopularscience.bsky.social from @currentaffairs.bsky.social

fish farming industry is really pissed off about this lol

New paper finds rampant illegal shark fin trafficking, despite >100 threatened sharks and rays being listed on CITES in the past 20 years. Evidence is becoming very strong that the only effective way to protect sharks is to stop the fisheries catching them. 🦑🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fishwatching was unbelievably lit today. #MarineLife

world vegan day In the past few years, corporations have turned their backs on vegans and, more importantly, animals. They want us to believe one person can’t make a difference. But that’s why we act collectively. The truth is that our economic choices matter more than ever.

90% of marine fishes in the aquarium trade were born free. (Lin et al. 2025) 🧪 This little jewel is the coveted indigo hamlet. You can find them online for $100, but I’ve never seen one in Florida — and I’m not going to tell you where I did. #MarineLife

Babe wake up, new righteous animal retribution headline just dropped.

A joint study by European Space Agency & NOAA concludes we have gravely underestimated ocean acidification. We’ve already crossed the planetary boundary, shattered it for the Arctic, & eliminated 43% of coral habitat. Stopping emissions cannot reverse this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Bacon kills more people from cancer than tobacco and asbestos ever did. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Another excellent essay by @unpopularscience.bsky.social - on sentience and much else. "Other life forms cannot describe their pain to us, yet we can still listen.... Our world is so much more complex and wondrous than the myth of human supremacy would have us believe." shorturl.at/F38aV

THE SAND TILEFISH Tilefish engineer ecosystems by excavating burrows that provide habitat to all sorts of other life. Sadly they remain widely hunted, both recreationally and commercially. The deep-dwelling great golden tilefish is now endangered. #MarineLife

NEW data finds that the government shutdown has furloughed 29,000 employees at public land agencies, nearly half the current workforce, impacting nearly every corner of the U.S.

Minutes ago, the Miami Seaquarium closed its doors forever. This hellish facility pioneered the modern industry of marine life captivity for 70 years. For the past 2.5, I’ve worked next-door. I can’t yet tell the full story of how it came down, but here’s what I will say. 🧵

I wrote about why slugs are better than clankers. 🦑🧪

scenes from Neon Reef Our local movement is fighting to make this soft coral forest off Miami Beach a no-take MPA. There’s only one other on the entire Atlantic coast of FL. The city has officially passed the funding. Now we fight for recognition from the state. sorry for the crop #MarineLife