Cephalopodcast - The Ocean Podcast

The fifth Carnival of the Blue is currently hosted over at the Shifting Baselines Blog.

Highlights include

• The Loom: Alien Eels, Pufferfish, and Other Novelties
• Blogfish: Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability
• Deep-Sea News: Non-Profit Submersibles
• Kate Wing’s Blog: Poaching is personal
• The Other 95%: A World Inside a Coconut

Many more ocean posts are listed at Shifting Baselines. Wondering what a shifting baseline is?

Shifting Baselines is a relatively new term, coined primarily in 1995 by fisheries biologist Dr. Daniel Pauly in his paper Anecdotes and the shifting baseline syndrome of fisheries. It refers to the loss of perception of change that occurs when each generation redefines “what is natural.” Pauly developed the term in reference to fisheries management in which fisheries biologists sometimes fail to identify the correct “baseline” population size (how abundant a fish species population was before human exploitation) and thus are working with a “shifted baseline.”
[via Wikipedia]

Also note, the Carnival of the Blue icon is available in different sizes and colors. Details and links to past CotB posts available at the mother site.

And next month’s CotB will be hosted right here at the Cephalopodcast. If you are interested in participating, send an email to pulpodcast [at] gmail . com