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Tyler Stiem
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email: t.stiem@fisheries.ubc.ca
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Species Spotlight

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

"Seaweed farming can be a double-edged sword. ... it’s an important livelihood; but careless farming can damage reefs..."

Staff Spotlight

PhD Candidate

Featured Resource

Pegasid fishes (sea moths) have only entered the arsenal of traditional Chinese medicine within the past few decades, but are now used in southern China and Hong Kong to treat respiratory ailments...

Seahorses and the "onion world" (University of Cambridge)

23 May 2012

Dr Amanda Vincent — one of the world’s leading experts on seahorses and their relatives — is spending a year at Cambridge’s Department of Geography on a sabbatical from the University of British Columbia. She is introducing some new ideas into conservation discussion groups at Cambridge. Read more.