Jellyfish risotto anyone? Chef puts stinging plague on menu

MADRID – A jellyfish soup? Or a mini-bundle of blanched vegetables with julienne strips of jellyfish? A prestigious Catalan chef plans to take advantage of the gloopy stinging creatures that plague Mediterranean beaches every summer and float them on to the region’s menus as a gastronomic delicacy. Carme Ruscalleda, who has won five Michelin stars [...]

Over the horizon and under the sea – managing fisheries

Radio New Zealand National – Sunday Morning Audio Archive for 28 September 2008 – The Sunday Group: Managing Fisheries. Click here to listen (37’39″). As the old saying goes – there’s plenty more fish in the sea. And that might have been true a few years ago, but nowadays there’s concern that many fish populations [...]

Hooked on muck diving

Part V in the Muck Diving Series The one that got away – Sunday 21 September 2008 A glorious day dawned in Auckland. The sun beamed down. You would have thought it was the first day of summer…and I was going muck diving with Stan. Stan was keen to try out my underwater camera and [...]

Dive Club

Some creative advertising from the guys at Dive Shack.

Annual General Meeting – Wednesday 01 October, 6:00pm

Please join us in room 3.401 in the Engineering building at Auckland University for our most important meeting of the year, the one at which we elect a new committee for the coming year. Dr Roger Grace – photo courtesy of the Marine NZ website. We are very fortunate to have Dr Roger Grace (a [...]