Media Contact

Tyler Stiem
Communications Manager
email: t.stiem@fisheries.ubc.ca
tel: +1 604-827-5142

Species Spotlight

Tiger tail Seahorse (H. comes)

H.comes is traded dried for traditional medicine and curios; and live for aquarium or hobbyist use.

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"I watched the boy comb the stubbly seaweed with his fingers. I thought of a gold prospector sifting sand for nuggets."
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Staff Spotlight

Nick Hill
PhD Candidate

Featured Resource

Bycatch of lined seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) in a Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery
Bycatch studies have largely ignored population level effects on fish species of little commercial interest. Here we analyze bycatch of the lined seahorse (Hippocampus erectus) in the bait-shrimp...
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Symposium on coral reef conservation

29 Nov 2011

On Saturday, Dec. 3 join Project Seahorse and scientists from around the UK at Reef Conservation UK’s annual symposium on coral reef conservation. This all-day event begins at 8:30 a.m. in Huxley Theatre, Zoological Society of London, Regents Park, London, NW1 4RY. 

Topics include fisheries management, climate change, coral biology, and ecology. Speakers include Project Seahorse's Dr. Heather Koldewey, Dr. Amanda Vincent, and PhD candidate Nick Hill. Overview | Map