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Arriving back from Okinawa we met up with Linda’s folks, who had arrived for a 10-day visit. It was fantastic to see them, not only because we could finally peel ourselves out of our dirty clothes and get them washed, but it had been some time since we last saw them, and even then we [...]

The sponsors PDF is attached detailing our activities since we departed Norway for Japan. The update is released once a month, except for this issue, which was delayed. The next Sponsors Update will be just before the new year. Excuse the moving Sushi logo, something happened during the file compression.
Sponsors Update September to November 2009 [...]

A friend on West Africa once said to me’ “you can gather the state of a society by witnessing how they look after their animals and old people”. I think there is some truth in this just based on my own observations, and I think a similar sentiment can be used in a marine context. [...]

Okinawa, an island archipelago south of Japan is the northern most tropical coral distribution in the world. The corals are of fundamental system, providing not protection to the island from typhoons but also driving biodiversity. Tropical seas can be described as ocean deserts, no rich cold water upwells to the surface driving phytoplankton blooms, instead [...]

The expedition annual report details our activities through West Africa. Please have a look and send us your feedback.
Marine Resource Expedition – Achievements in West Africa

Pictures courtesy of Oceana:
Oceana has excellent scientists and work around the clock challenging and brining awareness to unfair marine resource management decision making. Read their report below regarding the tuna problem and follow their actions at:
OCEANA, a voice worth listening to
Recife, Brazil — Today, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas agreed to [...]

On its way out the door, so to speak:
ICCAT website, read more here
Of course they do, the EU has huge financial investments into Bluefin Tuna, ranching for one, commercial fishing another. Despite a call for the complete ban of all bluefin tuna catches, ICCAT decided to issue a quoter of over 19 000 tons, which [...]

Arriving in Japan was always going to be a culture shock, but I do not think I was truly prepared for my experience. Just to put things into perspective, Japan is literally a rock in the middle of the ocean. This rock has had two atomic bombs dropped on it, every month there are earth [...]

Japan has been quite an adventure for both Linda and I. Our plates have been full trying to organize a perking for the vehicle in Tokyo, presenting our project, doing early morning radio interviews live in South Africa, presenting the expedition in a school for the kids, trying to get interviews with interesting projects and [...]

We have been faced with interesting and complicated challenges thought this expedition, somehow even when my teeth are threatened to be knocked out my mouth by a grumpy cop, things work out, however we are now faced with a big decision. Driving to China for us is now impossible, Why?

They want to charge the expedition [...]