A conference exploring state-of-the-art blockchain technology, NFTs and smart contracts, to improve marine conservation, traceability of fisheries supply chains management and the lives of small-scale actors dependent on the sector for their livelihoods. Date: Sunday, 18 September 2022 Time: 13:10-13:55 (UTC+8) Venue: Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast, Australia
griff: joining us now is marine ecologist and dean of the college of arts, sciences, mike hitehouse. no one knows sharks better than you. a string of attacks on long island, great whites washing up on the shore and the latest attack on a surfer. i surf every chance i get. what s going on in should servers be worried? the problem what is probably going on is we have a ton of people in the water and the number of shark bites is related to how many people are in the water and we have warm temperatures. a lot of shark species like warm water. you might have more sharks in these areas. the good thing is on long island they are not life-threatening. a lot of them are cases of mistaken identity. see in the hand or foot that looks like fish. generally it is not something
New research suggests there may be far more microplastics in the ocean than initially estimated. Microplastics, which breakdown into miniscule pieces of plastic are notoriously tricky to catch. Their small size allows them to get buried in ocean sediment and to escape through nets. Scientists at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in England.