#fishing the bay

[montereybayaquarium]

Holy mola! It’s feeding time!

Check out how we train our mola to come to the surface of the Open Sea exhibit to chow down on some delicious food!

Fun fact: Inside a mola's tiny mouth are two pairs of hard teeth plates shaped with a slightly curved ridge, resembling a bird's beak. Here’s the twist: The mola doesn’t chew its food! 😳

Instead, it sucks the food in and out (especially in the case of jellies) until it’s reduced to gelatinous chunks. Here at the Aquarium, we make a special gelatin-formula that allows our mola to munch on food just the way it would in the wild.

[cainhowlett]

[wildlifetracker]

Rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, at Monterey Bay aquarium

[reasonsforhope]

"At nearly 150 acres, the Jardim Gramacho landfill in Rio de Janeiro was one of the largest and most infamous in all of Latin America. Now it’s a mangrove forest teeming with life.

Decommissioned 11 years ago, between 1970 and 2012 the dump, bordering Rio’s famous Guanabara Bay, received 80 million metric tonnes of trash from the area’s Gramacho neighborhood.

Now, a public-private partnership led by the Rio Municipal Cleaning Company has returned the area to nature, specifically mangroves, one of the most valuable of all ecosystems.

Planting 24 acres of mangroves at a time, today the forest stretches out more than 120 acres and is the largest mangrove area of the bay.

“Before, we polluted the bay and the rivers. Now, it’s the bay and the rivers that pollute us,” a lead official on the project told Africa News. “Today, the mangrove has completely recovered.”

Other organizations have taken action to restore mangroves along the bay as well. The non-profit Ocean Pact funded the Green Guanabara Bay Project which successfully restored 12.5 hectares or around 25 acres of mangroves.

According to some estimates, 1 acre of mangrove forests can store more carbon in roots and soil than 4 acres of even the most biodiverse rainforest, making them paramount to any world climate mitigation strategy.

Furthermore, their impressive lattice work of roots and insane durability means that storm surges impacting mangroves lose about 66% of their kinetic energy without even destroying the trees.

Lastly, coastal fishing communities, in [four] words, cannot exist without mangroves. They act as nurseries and perfect habitat for all kinds of fish and crustaceans that small-scale fishermen rely on for their daily bread."

-via Good News Network, 7/31/23

-video via Africanews, July 26, 2023

[vgwater]

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Easy Baked Crab Balls

[talk-danmei-to-me]

Pondering whether I should start treating 7 seas danmei translations like pokemon and y'know buy them all.

[boxercrab]

Juvenile Fish Explore the Enchanted Kelp Forest | The Critter Corner

[ID: 3 gifs of 3 different small fish swimming between leaves of kelp]

[jaubaius]

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[jennarosenthal]

Aquarium of the Bay, SF, CA

[montereybayaquarium]

Let’s start our day with a biiiig stretch and join our wonderful Aquarist Christy as they  open up the Aquarium. ☀️💙

[cainhowlett]

[marinememes]

I don’t know who I would be without the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s lo-fi playlist

[neil-gaiman]

Beigel or bagel?

I'm a bagel person. My mother is a beigel person -- that's how it was pronounced in London's East End when she was a girl: she still talks about the Beigel Lady who sat outside Johnny Isaac's Fish and Chip shop (owned and run by my great-uncle Mark and great-aunt Rosie), and she can't ever quite get used to the American way of pronouncing it having taken over.

[fishy-stitching]

went to the monterey bay aquarium today (ily monterey bay aquarium). i got to see the beautiful beautiful mola mola which i have missed since the last one left and also the into the deep exhibit which was so good, and i tried to take pictures of my fish with the real-life fish but mostly it was too dark

(with bonus preview of newest fish)

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Maryland Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes with Lemon Caper Yogurt Sauce