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Seahorses: The Ocean’s Power Couple

Seahorses: The Ocean’s Power Couple

This Valentine’s Day, let’s dive into one of our ocean’s most enchanting love stories—about seahorses. These little romantics don’t just capture our hearts with their quirky looks; they also teach us powerful lessons about loyalty, partnership, and shared responsibility.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Project Seahorse, seahorses

Project Seahorse’s new study highlights the value of community science for seahorse monitoring and conservation

Project Seahorse’s new study highlights the value of community science for seahorse monitoring and conservation

“Harnessing Community Science for Seahorse Population Monitoring: Insights from the iSeahorse Program in Tampa Bay” was published in Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. The study showcases the important role of community science in monitoring seahorse populations to support conservation efforts.

Posted in 2025, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, community, Faculty, fisheries management, Florida, IOF Research Associates, IOF staff, iSeahorse, Miguel Correia, Project Seahorse, seahorses

How a 5-Question approach can ensure sustainable trade in threatened wildlife

How a 5-Question approach can ensure sustainable trade in threatened wildlife

The 5-Question approach focuses on helping national governments meet their obligations under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with international trade, Project Seahorse, seahorses, Sustainability

Citizen scientists contribute vital information about 35 seahorse species: their geographic ranges, habitats, and pregnancy seasonality

Citizen scientists contribute vital information about 35 seahorse species: their geographic ranges, habitats, and pregnancy seasonality

Thanks to diligent observers, seahorses, those enigmatic and charismatic fish, are not only being discovered in new habitats and expanded geographic ranges, they are also being found at new ocean depths. While their capacity for male pregnancy has long fascinated people, new information on sex ratio and pregnancy seasonality has been discovered by, well, you. […]

Posted in 2024, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, Conservation, Faculty, IOF students, iSeahorse, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Research, seahorses

New FCRR: Understanding the fishers to change the fishery in the bottom trawl industry in India

New FCRR: Understanding the fishers to change the fishery in the bottom trawl industry in India

The report unravels the drivers and motivations that entice fishers and the fishery to start, engage in, and stop bottom trawling in India. Understanding the nuances within communities rather than viewing them as one entity is paramount for designing equitable policies. Moreover, the study highlights a pressing reality: fishers do not always want to fish and are sometimes forced to remain in the bottom trawl industry. Recognizing and addressing these insights are paramount in effectively constraining bottom trawling.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, bottom trawling, CITES, Faculty, FCRR, India, IOF Research Associates, IOF students, Marine protected areas, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, Sarah Foster, seahorses

New FCRR: Implementation of CITES Appendix II listing for seahorses in the context of export bans and suspensions

New FCRR: Implementation of CITES Appendix II listing for seahorses in the context of export bans and suspensions

Despite measures taken by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), most dried seahorse exports appear to have gone underground, and smuggling is now the norm. The report explores the many reasons driving this illegal trade and then identifies ways forward.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with bottom trawling, CITES, FCRR, international trade, IOF Research Associates, Marine protected areas, Project Seahorse, Publications, Sarah Foster, seahorses

New FCRR: Comprehensive review of advances in life history knowledge for 35 seahorse species, drawn from community science

New FCRR: Comprehensive review of advances in life history knowledge for 35 seahorse species, drawn from community science

In this Fisheries Centre Research Report the authors have undertaken the task of synthesizing and analyzing data contributed to the iSeahorse community science project.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, Faculty, IOF Research Associates, iSeahorse, Miguel Correia, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, seahorses

Global seahorse conservation platform celebrates citizen science milestone

Global seahorse conservation platform celebrates citizen science milestone

Dennis Rabeling’s observation of the short-snouted seahorse (Hippocampus hippocampus) species, was citizen community science platform iSeahorse’s 10,000th observation.

Posted in 2023, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, citizen science, Conservation, Faculty, IOF Research Associates, iSeahorse, IUCN, Project Seahorse, Sarah Foster, seahorses

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New Working Paper: A practical approach to meeting national obligations for sustainable trade under CITES

This pragmatic geographic analysis provides managers in India with a tractable route towards regulating seahorse exports at sustainable levels.

Posted in 2022, IOFNews | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, bottom trawling, CITES, Conservation, India, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, Sarah Harper, seahorses, Sustainability

New Fisheries Centre Research Report (FCRR)

New Fisheries Centre Research Report (FCRR)

Implementing CITES Appendix II listings for marine fishes: a novel framework and a constructive analysis

Posted in 2022, IOFNews, News Release | Tagged with Amanda Vincent, CITES, Faculty, FCRR, fish, IOF Research Associates, Project Seahorse, Publications, Research, Sarah Foster, seahorses, sharks

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