Stitchin' Fish at the Ecology Action Centre
Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Jellyfish Heaven

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It is perhaps fitting that we have received so many wonderful crafted jellyfish for our Northwest Atlantic sea floor display. After all, j...
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Sunday, June 8, 2008

Happy World Ocean Day!

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Thanks on behalf of the Ecology Action Centre and the Loop Craft Cafe to everybody who stitched up a creature feature over the last two mon...
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008

A Shark Among the Fishes

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Let me guess… as you looked at this photo of a crocheted great white shark, you began to hum the theme from JAWS ? That’s probably because t...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008

One Fish, Two Fish, Unlucky Redfish

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Check out this pretty little redfish, quilted by hand by the Ecology Action Centre ’s own fisheries scientist, Jennifer Ford . Atlantic re...
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Monday, June 2, 2008

Children of the Sea Corn

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Ganking a crochet technique applied to metal coat-hangers used to protect lady’s delicates from wrinkling, this gorgonian coral was crafted ...
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Friday, May 30, 2008

A Wolf at the Door

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With their portly blue heads and gaping toothy maw, it has been said that only a wolf fish could love another wolf fish. Their peculiar ski...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Friendly hermits

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Hermit crabs belong to a large family of decapod crustac eans who move into empty snail, periwinkle , or other mollusk shells to protect th...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

You Know What They Say About Glass Houses...

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At over half a billion years old, sponges are the oldest multi-cellular animals on the planet. Scientists have identified thousands of spec...
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Friday, May 16, 2008

Happy Endangered Species Day?

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With so many sea creatures at risk of extinction, it is heartening to hear that new species continue to be discovered. Actually, more new an...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

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Look at this marine biodiversity! I feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It's just like Claire Nouvian described : " Down at the botto...
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Monday, May 12, 2008

"With fronds like these, who needs anenomes?"

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They may appear a little… vegetative, but once you get to know them, sea cucumbers ( Holothuria) are fascinating creatures. These pickle-s...
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Thursday, May 8, 2008

The Metamorphosis

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What a mug. Flounders aren’t born with such wonky eyes. When they hatch as larvae they swim in the usual fishy way, but, like all flatfish ...
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Monday, May 5, 2008

Heaven on the half shell

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" If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, som...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Mighty Aphrodite

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Believe it or not, the fuzzy creature pictured left is actually a worm, closely related to the earthworm. The great taxonomist Linnaeus na...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

The Bubblegum Years

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Ahhhh, coral. For most of us, the word conjures a warm breeze, a snorkel, and shallow aquamarine reefs. Tropical corals are some of the mo...
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