Carl Safina

Guest blog by Stephen Dishart, Executive Director, Blue Ocean Institute To view Carl’s TEDx Oil Spill lecture click here. Safina points to gross negligence as the cause of the spill With a remarkable agenda of speakers, the hottest topic on the planet and a crowd of environmental experts and others eager for the latest word [...]

In his New York Times blog, Andy Revkin writes about both Japan’s fading passion for whale meat and Japan’s entrenched bureaucratic defense of whaling. He speculates that I’d love to see the Japanese stop eating both whales and tuna. He’s half right. What’s weird about Japan’s nationalistic policies on whaling and fishing is that they’re [...]

Thanks to Tony Lorenz and Nancy Black of the Monterey Bay Whalewatch, I was able to get out to search for what I called the Killers of the Davenport hills (because we found them off Davenport). These are actually transient killer whales, and the day before they’d killed a gray whale calf. In the small [...]

Wednesday April 7, 2010 – This morning I got a call from my friend, photographer John Todaro (http://bit.ly/deKPot): a young whale was washing ashore the main beach in town. I met him down there and, yes, a juvenile Humpback Whale was in the surf, alive. Unlike the whale in my children’s book (http://bit.ly/cgVmKj), for this [...]

by Lyda Sue Cunningham This is a  true Lazy Point story, and it happened a long time  ago. A little girl  was fishing with her father in a small boat just outside the channel, beyond  Hicks Island.  They were drifting over the ledge at the edge of the  channel, hoping to catch some fluke or [...]