Tell us about where you have seen our #IconicFishes (seahorses. pipefishes, pipehorses, seadragons, cornetfishes, trumpetfishes, bellowsfishes and ghost pipefishes) in artistic form. And have a go at capturing their magic in in your own making and creating!

Myself, I think they are more gorgeous than scary. We have just completed a review of their biology... and are awaiting a verdict from the journal. #IconicFishes

Air Canada says it "is the first airline in North America to obtain IATA’s Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT) certification", making 11 key commitments to help disrupt the trafficking of wildlife. Read more here. www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/ho...

Want to know the shark and ray fisheries regulations in Europe, see handy link from the @sharktrust #Elasmo25 www.sharktrust.org/Pages/Catego...

First Nations have announced three new marine refuges along British Columbia's North Coast, protecting sensitive habitat for salmon, herring, seabirds, and seals. 🌊 🔗 Read more: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/n...

Help @projectseahorse.bsky.social and @iucnseahorse.bsky.social get the world passionately excited about our #iconicfishes. Create and make... and tell us about others who create and make.

Please help excite people about our #IconicFishes.

‼️REMINDER: 2027 Indianapolis Prize Award Entries 🏆 2027 Indy Prize Nominations 🌟 2027 Emerging Conservationists 📅Both close: Feb. 27, 20267 🔗Nominate or apply: bit.ly/46Sajxr

Assessment of trawling impacts on 10 Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem indicator taxa (e.g. cold-water corals) across New Zealand waters show that 30 years of trawling reduced VME area by 20.8 %, with losses up to 40.7 % in some bioregions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Proud to be part of an amazing group of dedicated conservationists, working to save seahorses and their seas. See what we got up to in 2024...

Hey, some #iconicfishes from Malaysia. Where have you spotted our wondrous fishes? www.iconicfishes.art

Spotted more of our #IconicFishes today. Would love to see some handknitted clothing with #seahorses! Read all about our arts movement for conservation... and consider what you might contribute, as a crafter, artist, musician, dancer, baker or maker! www.iconicfishes.art.

In a Letter to the Editor to Nature... four marine leaders call for an end to bottom trawling in MPAs tinyurl.com/3pnx952x

Sharing #trumpetfish art inspired by #IconicFishes. This super cute Pacific trumpetfish was illustrated by Yuri Katayama. Feeling inspired, too? 🎨 Visit www.iconicfishes.art 💙💪 Together, let’s give these fishes the spotlight they deserve. 💪💙 #OceanArt #ArtforNature #ConservationArt

Passing through the shop @beatymuseum.bsky.social and spotted one of our #IconicFishes on a tea cloth/dish towel. Hooray for the wondrous seadragons. @iconicfishes.bsky.social Visit www.iconicfishes.art

So many seahorses around Puerto Vallarta, Mexico - a place dear to my heart after spending a year near there living on board #bottomtrawlers for my PhD research. Perhaps our #iconicfishes can inspire a transition toward more sustainable fishing methods in the Gulf of California.

We need to spread the news that fish are indeed wildlife! "The fish [falling from the sky] damaged the windshield ... there was some confusion when [XX] tried to make the wildlife collision claim under her insurance, with one adjustor telling her fish isn’t wildlife" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hey look at the playground art at the #BCFerries terminal at Swartz Bay, British Columbia. Inspired by #IconicFishes @iconicfishes.bsky.social Love that kids waiting for the ferry are encountering seahorses.

Definitive ‘A global assessment of #dugong status and conservation needs’, just released by The Convention of Migratory Species/UNEP/Dugong MOU. You can watch the excellent 7 minute synopsis here: youtube.com/watch?v=9qhsW0-dYfU&feature=youtu.be @sscmarine.bsky.social

So sad that a marine cone snail (Conus lugubris) has just been declared Extinct on the #IUCNRedList. Being predatory and venomous was not enough to save it. Degradation of its Cabo Verde habitats was the main problem. www.iucnredlist.org/search?query...

Here's a great World Conservation Congress hybrid event on Friday at 3 am in New York and midnight in Vancouver. We will cover fungi, plants, fish and more in a bid to really indicate the huge scale of the trade... and its impacts. Co-hosted by @sscmarine.bsky.social

At the World Conservaiton Congress in Abu Dhabi. Here's a really important push to foster joined up thinking, research, management and policy. Co-hosted by @sscmarine.bsky.social @protectspecies.bsky.social and other partners. Supports Motion 20 already adopted by the @IUCN.

So delighted by this gorgeous batik art inspired by our #IconicFishes. Share your sightings of the magical seahorses, pipefishes, seadragons, trumpetfish, cornetfish, bellowsfish and ghost pipefish. And consider creating your own art, too! Read more here: iconicfishes.art

Calling all artists, makers, creators, dreamers.... We'd love to you help inspire passion for our #IconicFishes. Whether you compose organ music, make potato prints, design jewellery, paint with oils, build driftwood sculptures or dance with delight... we would love you to take part in our movement.

We are so excited to be launching an arts movement for our most iconic of all fishes... capture their mystery and magic in your art form... or capture somebody else's artistic depiction... whatever you do, tag it #iconicfishes.

Crazy special fishes!! Read our web story explaining the launch of our new arts movement. We invite you to help us grow the excitement about our #IconicFishes and their conservation. @projectseahorse.bsky.social @iucnseahorse.bsky.social www.iconicfishes.art/updates/intr...

🌊 Whether you paint 🎨, dance 💃, doodle ✏️, weave 🧵, write ✍️, design jewellery 💎, compose music 🎶, build Legos 🧩, cut potato prints 🥔or create in ways we haven’t even imagined, this is your invitation to join a global arts movement Inspired by #IconicFishes 👉 www.iconicfishes.art/updates/intr...

✨Meet the showstopper of our #IconicFishes lineup, the #seadragon: enchanting and full of flair 🪩. 💡There are three species of seadragons, all from the same family as seahorses & pipefishes. 🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨Meet the sixth star in our #IconicFishes lineup, the bellowsfish 🎶 💡There are six species of #bellowsfish, other members of the same family include snipefishes, shrimpfishes, & razorfishes. 🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take center stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨Meet the fifth star in our #IconicFishes lineup, the cornetfish 🎺 Also known as Flutemouth.💡Did you know? There are four species of cornetfishes, found in most parts of the tropics. 🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨Meet the fourth star in our #IconicFishes lineup, the trumpetfish 🎺 💡Did you know? There are three species of trumpetfish. These tropical beauties are found across much of the world’s oceans. 🎨Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in an arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

✨ Meet the third star in our #IconicFishes lineup: the ghost pipefish 🎶 💡Did you know? There are 6 species of ghost pipefish, & they are found in the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific. 🎨 Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes 🎭

🌊 Say hello to the second star in our #IconicFishes lineup: the pipefish 🎶 💡 Did you know? There are over 225 species of pipefishes and they belong to the same family as the seahorse! 🎨 Stay tuned as these iconic fishes take centre stage 🎭🌟 in our upcoming arts movement #InspiredByIconicFishes

🌊 First up in our #IconicFishes lineup: the magical seahorse. 🎶 One could even say it leads the orchestra of ocean’s quirkiest performers: Pipefish, Ghost Pipefish, Trumpetfish, Cornetfish, Bellowsfish, & Seadragon, the elegant dancer. Stay tuned as they take centre stage in #InspiredByIconicFishes

Introducing our #IconicFishes! 📣These quirky little wonders of the ocean each have their own charm and story to tell. Stay tuned as they take centre stage in our upcoming arts movement, "Inspired by Iconic Fishes". 🎭🎨🖌️🎶🪩🎥 #InspiredByIconicFishes #SavingIconicFishes

Hey. @ubcoceans.bsky.social is hiring for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Ocean Ecological Modelling. Deadline 12 Sept. To join us, apply here: research.ubc.ca/federal-rese...

All this talk about #BottomTrawling reminds me of a 5 minute film I made with @cnn.com on how such destructive fishing affects seahorses. @projectseahorse.bsky.social edition.cnn.com/2021/12/13/w...

If you want to #EndBottomTrawling as much as I do... here's our one minute video summary of some #BottomTrawling concerns. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ5X... @projectseahorse.bsky.social Please repost.

I'm keeping exalted company just now ... at least in the news... as we all focus on #BottomTrawling @projectseahorse.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social www.bbc.com/news/article...

Some of our @projectseahorse.bsky.social research on #BottomTrawling is featured in this story. We have much more emerging, too, as we work to #EndBottomTrawling

So pleased to see that #BottomTrawling is rising rapidly up the #UNOC3 agenda. Our @projectseahorse.bsky.social work on #BottomTrawling is featured in today's story in ‪@theobserveruk.bsky.social. @ubcoceans.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/oceans/...

We consulted co-Chairs of the @sscmarine.bsky.social taxon expert groups and they told about non-selective fisheries exerting huge pressures on their very diverse taxa, particularly from #BottomTrawls and #Gillnets. @projectseahorse.bsky.social

We must transition determinedly to #EndBottomTrawling,

More on the news from #UNOC3 •⁠ ⁠186,000 km² will be reserved for artisanal fishing out to 15 miles around each island. •⁠ ⁠A one-year extension is granted to reach an agreement with industrial fishermen, with a view to reinforcing protection in the Marquesas and Austral islands by June 8, 2026.

News from #UNOC3: The entire exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of French Polynesia - 5 million km² - will be converted into a marine protected area (MPA), making it the largest MPA in the world. •⁠ ⁠1.1 million km² will be placed under strong protection status, equivalent to IUCN category 2

My second talk yesterday was on "Why do fishers start, stay in and stop bottom trawl fishing in India?". Wonderful analysis by Roshni Mangar (with Sarah Foster & me). Generated much interest and offers ways forward. #OOS2025 @projectseahorse.bsky.social @ubcoceans.bsky.social