May 18 2017
Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) This video was filmed in a retail shop located in Monterey, California (USA) where different fish species and crabs are sold. The Dungeness crab is the crab species shown in this video whether sold iced or displayed live. The Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister (formerly: Cancer magister), is …
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May 06 2017
Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the website) The inserted picture was taken on January 22, 2015 during my visit to the cannery row, the street that witnessed the sardine explosion and then collapse of sardine fishery in Monterey, California (USA). The first cannery in the row was born in 1901 and soon …
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May 08 2015
This video was filmed during my visit to Monterey (January, 2015) Review: Abdel Rahman El Gamal (Founder of the video channel) The Municipal Wharf II was constructed in 1926 and repaired in 1983. Here, sport anglers try to make a fish catch. There are sections of this long wharf (490 m) that are marked no …
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Mar 05 2015
Credit: Michelle Kaiser (Monterey, USA) The inserted picture was taken at the commercial Wharf Piling and shows Sea stars such as Pisaster ochraceus whilefeeding on scallop jingles that are very plentiful within the harbor. This star is joined by a purple urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, and a decorator crab, Loxorynchus spp. …
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Mar 03 2015
During my visit to the abalone farm in Monterey, California, I took this picture for this napping sea lion. The abalone grow-out cages are located in the water several meters under the napping animal who reached the farm along with the morning high tide leaving the animal behind in the …
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Mar 02 2015
Credit: Peter Hain (Monterey, USA) Red abalone, Haliotis rufescensis an important fishery resource in California, where several hatcheries are producing juveniles of this species. This picture has been taken in a nursing tank in one of those hatcheries located in Monterey region, California. Diatom is the starting feed for baby abalone. As abalones grow on the …
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Jan 23 2015
Dear Friends,Yesterday (Wednesday, 22 January) was a long field visit which lasted 14 hours since I left Campbell where we stay to Monterey where the abalone projects exist and back to Campbell. The rich information gained through the visit would justify the lengthy hours spent. When …
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