Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
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 [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
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 [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
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 [...]
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Posted on September 26th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
Some creative advertising from the guys at Dive Shack.
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Posted on September 24th, 2008 by Ali Perkins
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 [...]
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