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Our mission is to catalyze the flow of information, share scientific and grassroots insights with the world, and foster a deeper understanding of our shared environment. SEVENSEAS Media is the leading free resource that promotes marine conservation through community engagement, online media, and eco-tourism, every month, to our readers all across the globe. SEVENSEAS, in collaboration with The Oce

an Foundation, is working toward our shared goal of reversing the trend of destruction of ocean environments around the world and expanding ocean literacy.

08/13/2026

You will not look at a can of tuna the same way again.

TIN CAN COAST by Joseph Ogilvy follows abalone, sardines and yellowfin tuna through three centuries of the California Current, and argues that fisheries regulation has always been a contest over power as much as a contest over fish.

Out now from Bloomsbury. Full article on SEVENSEAS, link in bio.

08/10/2026

Discovery Day at Texas Maritime Musuem
Volunteers will staff an outreach event to introduce the public to the sanctuary and corals that are found in the sanctuary. This includes talking to people, giving out information, and helping participants with activities, like reef-tac-toe, coral up close, and deep Gulf habitat mats. This is an indoor event.

Location: Texas Maritime Museum, 1202 Navigation Cir, Rockport, TX 78382

Date: Saturday, August 15, 2026

Volunteer shift: 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.: 4 volunteers needed

To sign up for a volunteer shift follow the link in the first comment.

07/24/2026

This week’s environmental jobs list is a proper world tour (ocean jobs were yesterday). WWF is looking for a Director of Great Plains Science, Parks Australia needs a Biodiversity Conservation Manager for Kakadu, and Doctors Without Borders is hiring Water and Sanitation Specialists for field postings. There is also a Conservation Officer role with the Government of Yukon, a Research Assistant post at the IISD Experimental Lakes Area (the world’s freshwater laboratory, quite literally 58 lakes), and a policy internship at WWF in Washington for anyone just starting out.

The list is free to browse and we update it every week with at least 25 ocean and 25 other environmental jobs. If someone you know is looking, share this with them or forward it along; it genuinely helps.

Full listings on SEVENSEAS through the link in bio.

07/23/2026

Texas legalized oyster mariculture in 2019 and issued its first farm permit in 2021. The reefs are old, but the industry around them is brand new, and so is the question of who is going to work it.

The Guy Harvey Foundation and the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi have launched a free, online Oyster Farming course to help close that gap. Offered in English and Spanish, it covers hatchery operations, farm cultivation, and aquaculture business planning, structured as the first micro-credential of its kind in Texas. Finish the modules and you can be considered for paid work experience on a working farm.

It's the first release in a new Marine Careers Series, and there's an ecological story folded into the economic one: farmed oysters filter water, build habitat, and take pressure off wild reefs battered by hurricanes and spills. Good jobs that happen to be good for the water, which is a rare thing conservation gets to claim.

The course is live now and free to anyone who wants it.

07/21/2026

On World Environment Day, UNESCO added 14 new biosphere reserves across 14 countries, expanding its global network to 797 sites in 145 countries.

A few firsts worth celebrating: Montenegro, Timor-Leste, and Aruba join the network for the first time, with Aruba designating its entire island and surrounding waters. And Québec City becomes the world's first predominantly urban biosphere reserve, home to 635,000 people alongside forests, 80 lakes, and the St. Lawrence migratory corridor.

The new sites protect some of the planet's most extraordinary and threatened life: one third of the world's Cross River gorillas in Cameroon, some of the highest densities of snow leopards on Earth in Mongolia's Gobi, and reefs where Wallacea meets the Coral Triangle in Timor-Leste, where a turtle believed locally extinct was recently rediscovered.

Read the full breakdown of all 14 designations. Link in the first comment.

07/13/2026

July 14 Public Webinar: Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Restoration

The Open Ocean Trustees are pleased to announce a public webinar on Tuesday, July 14, 2026, which will share updates of restoration efforts underway through the Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities (MDBC) projects in the Gulf of America. The MDBC restoration team will provide updates from the four MDBC projects.

The webinar is open to everyone, and we encourage your attendance and participation. Link in comments.

07/09/2026

The world's rarest marine mammal is now a free download.
There are only seven to ten vaquitas left. This small porpoise from the Gulf of California numbered around six hundred in the late nineties, and it has been almost entirely wiped out by gillnets, especially the illegal ones set for totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder sells on international black markets.

So a team led by Jamie Knaub at Florida Atlantic University did something quietly remarkable. They took a female vaquita skeleton collected in 1966 and scanned every bone into a free, open-access 3D archive on MorphoSource. Any researcher in the world can now study the full anatomy without a physical specimen. It is preservation, and it is also insurance against a loss we have not managed to stop.

Here is the part that stayed with me. The 2025 survey spotted new calves. One female they track, a vaquita named Frida, has had a calf three years running. Seven to ten animals left, and she keeps showing up with a baby. They are still here.

07/03/2026

Welcome to the July issue of SEVENSEAS Marine Conservation & Travel Magazine. This month we travel to the Philippines, where URI’s Fish Right Program returns to contested western waters with twenty-four million dollars and local fishers at the centre of the science. Red Bull Cliff Diving opens its 2026 season above a marine protected area at Nusa Penida, with Aidan Heslop’s comeback and Rhiannan Iffland extending her record. Schmidt Ocean Institute logs 31 new species in two weeks of deep-sea exploration off Brazil. A San Diego judge twice refuses to dismiss the forced-labour case brought against Bumble Bee by four Indonesian fishers. UNESCO names Québec City the world’s first urban biosphere reserve. A boatyard study finds the greenest antifouling paint was also the most toxic. And much more, in one issue.

06/21/2026

The University of Rhode Island is sending $24 million back into some of the most contested fishing grounds on earth, and the most interesting part is who they are putting at the centre of the work.

Not satellites. Not patrol boats. Fishers.

The renewed Fish Right Program, now funded by the US State Department after seven years under USAID, runs through 2028 along the western seaboard of the Philippines, including waters facing the West Philippine Sea. Its big idea is what the team calls maritime domain awareness: knowing, close to real time, who is fishing a stretch of sea and what is happening to it.

The twist is that the people doing the knowing are the small-scale fishers themselves, documenting vessel activity and ocean conditions as they work. The data flows both ways. The communities ground-truth the science, and in return they get tools that make a hard job a little less blind.

I wrote about why this design is worth watching, and what happens to a network of volunteer observers when the seas are contested and the budgets keep shifting. The piece is just up on SEVENSEAS Media and runs in our July issue.

If you work in fisheries management or maritime policy, I would like to hear how you see the observer-network model holding up under pressure.

06/10/2026

Welcome to Issue No. 133 of SEVENSEAS Marine Conservarion & Travel Magazine. Our June issue is our annual Pride issue, and this month we travel from the Gulf of Mannar’s coral reefs to a Tamil Nadu festival where thousands of Hijra women are symbolically married to a god, sit with a young photographer documenting the q***r in-between spaces of the Pacific, visit a Memphis museum opening David Ụzọchukwu’s first solo show, read three new poems from Cornwall, and check in with marine mammal specialist Niru Dorrian on what equity in marine science actually looks like across two decades offshore. There is also kelp forest reporting, a Ph.D. student reading the chemical fingerprints of Jonah crabs at offshore wind sites, student art that paints the invisible ocean, a short film festival opening in three cities, and a 1,121-species jump in what we know about life in the sea.

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