@KateShaw made a great episode about sawfish, stingrays, epaulette sharks, walking sharks, mudskippers, red-lipped batfish, payara, and more
https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/12/15/episode-463-the-big-fish-episode/
#sawFish
Anyone else still use #sawfish window manager? I've used it since it was called "sawmill", & some of my configs date to 2002.
Anyway, I script my window interactions heavily w/ sawfish. What I need now is sawfish to send a window to a different display. (When I first started using sawfish, I had at most two displays. Now I have 3 huge ones, & it's a lot to drag a window all the way across.)
On single displays, (move-window-to-workspace) is what I use; I basically want (move-window-to-display)
Happy International Sawfish Day!
https://www.sawfishconservationsociety.org/international-sawfish-day
Sawfish WM: Overview of Customization, Innovation, and Community-Driven Development
Sawfish WM is a highly configurable window manager for the X Window System. It was designed with flexibility in mind, emphasizing minimalism in policy while offering extensive customization through a built‐in Lisp scripting language known as rep.
Read More: https://machaddr.substack.com/p/sawfish-wm-overview-of-customization
#uglytober 4 - Dangerous Balloon
🎶 „I‘m taking a ride with my best friend,
I hope he never lets me down again…” 🎶
Did you notice the nose on this fish? 🪚 Sawfish are among the world’s most unusual marine creatures. However, all five species are also among the most threatened animals on the planet.
Their unique saw-like head projections, known as rostra, have for decades been hacked off as “trophies” to be placed on display – with mutilated animals found as recently as 2023. This, along with fisheries exploitation and habitat loss, is contributing to the significant decline of these species.
Now, people are being asked to donate their rostra “trophies” and report sightings to researchers to save these special species… https://ausgeo.co/sawfishrostra
📷 Jodie Cridland
#sawfish #fish #shark #sharks #conservation #ocean #underwater #marinelife #sealife #wildlifeconservation #environment
#environment #academia #research #academicchatter #biodiversity #ecology #biology #nature #wildlife #photography #science #scientist
six-storey salt stockpiles; conveyors, desalination plant, fuel storage, and other infrastructure; the risk of discharge of #toxic hypersaline water into the rich marine environment; and barge-loading via a new 660m jetty (with dredging) and loading structures.
An #IndustrialDevelopment of this massive scale poses unacceptable risks to the sensitive #environment here, which supports many #ThreatenedSpecies including critically endangered #sawfish and #ShovelnoseRays,
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🪼🪸🐋🌊 🐡
It seems I was right about #GambierdiscusToxicus being the cause of #sawfish deaths in #Florida. Not sure why they aren't announcing it (tourism?).
Scientists continue to search for answers as #Florida sawfish continue to die
By Heather Walker, Diana Reed
July 12, 2024
"The FGCU scientists said that once again, their samples showed high levels of a microscopic algae called Gambierdiscus. It is a naturally occurring toxin that is normally harmless but can be dangerous at high levels."
#HABs #HarmfulAlgaeBlooms
#Florida #Extinction
#ToxicAlgae
#Fish #ClimateChange
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/sawfish/
i once attended a presentation about #sawfish ecology and conservation but i forgot who gave it
but it was informative and meaningful
so here's another page about sawfish conservation
STOP THE SILENT EXTINCTION CRISIS BENEATH THE WAVES 🌊 🦈
Over 70% of our Earth is #ocean, yet the way we are interacting with it is deeply damaging to it and the creatures that live in it.
Without drastic action, uniquely Australian #species could disappear before we even get a chance to know them. Endangered #hammerheads will still be fished in the #GreatBarrierReef, and iconic species like #sawfish may no longer cruise our coasts and rivers.
Save Our Endangered Sharks & Rays.
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What’s Killing #Endangered #Sawfish in #Florida?
Off #FloridaKeys fish — jacks, snook — swim in spirals or upside down in shallow waters of #Atlantic and #GulfofMexico. So were #stingrays and the occasional #shark. Then, endangered sawfish started dying. Scientists are racing to figure out why but have not yet figured out what is going on. They have ruled out a few potential causes, including #redtide, toxic #algalbloom that has led to past kills.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/us/sawfish-florida-keys.html
https://archive.ph/Ow8HB
Six rare #sawfish deaths in 7 days have scientists baffled amid bizarre #Florida fish behavior
“There is no concrete, conclusive proof of what is happening yet and that is still to be determined, which is quite terrifying.” said Gregg Furstenwerth, a lifelong diver in the Florida Keys. “If it continues, it is going to be the end of this #ecosystem as we know it.”
By Jen Christensen, CNN
Published Apr 12, 2024
"Most tests for toxins have been negative, but scientists have seen an unusually high number of #algae called gambierdiscus that can produce a wide variety of #neurotoxins that can be harmful to fish and dangerous to humans.
#Gambierdiscus is normally found in tropical and subtropical waters all around the world, but the algae can grow quickly when waters are warmer than usual. The climate crisis has brought record hot temperatures to the waters around southern Florida."
#SpinningFish #ClimateChange #WarmingOceans #OceanTemperatures #ToxicAlgae #SouthFlorida #WaterIsLife #OceanEcosystem #Collapse #EcosystemCollapse #Extinction #FishDeaths
Fish are dying in the #FloridaKeys. Scientists are getting closer to finding out why
By Heather Walker
March 12, 2024
"The Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission says 27 species are now affected, primarily in the lower keys from #BigPine to #KeyWest, including the critically #endangered smalltooth #sawfish. Many have grounded themselves. As of last week, 20 have died."
#HABs #HarmfulAlgaeBlooms #Gambierdiscus #Florida #Extinction #ToxicAlgae
#Fish #Florida #ClimateChange
#ClimateCrisis #WarmingOceans
#WaterIsLife #WaterTemperatures
Endangered smalltooth #sawfish, marine creatures virtually unchanged for millions of years, are exhibiting erratic spinning behavior and dying in unusual numbers in #Florida waters. Federal and state wildlife agencies are beginning an effort to rescue and rehabilitate sawfish to find out why.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/miami/news/sawfish-are-spinning-and-dying-in-florida-waters-as-rescue-effort-begins-2/
We cannot afford to delay any longer.
Let's stand together, because saving #sawfish and #RiverSharks means healthier NT #waters that so many people depend on for work, play and culture.
On behalf of the sawfish and river sharks, thank you.
Dr Leonardo Guida (Shark Scientist) & Lawrence Chlebeck (Marine Biologist)
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The #NTGovernment has the ability to improve the environmental #sustainability of the commercial barra fishery and the time is now.
There are several solutions that the NT Government must implement now.
Solutions to save #sawfish and #RiverSharks in the #NTBarramundiFishery:
- Protect critical habitats in coastal waters of #VanDiemensGulf and the southern part of the #GulfOfCarpentaria;
- Buy back #GillnetLicences to take into account the loss of important fishing grounds
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SAVING SAWFISH & SPEARTOOTH SHARKS 🦈
#NorthernTerritory (NT) waters make up the last global stronghold for endangered #sawfish and one of the world's rarest shark species, the #RiverShark. Four of the world's five sawfish species and two of the world's five river shark species call NT waters home.
Right now, sawfish and river sharks are not protected from commercial #gillnets in their #CriticalHabitat along the coastlines of major river systems in the NT.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb6026
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Sébastien Raoult, aka "Sezyo," sentenced in federal court today; could be out in less than 11 months:
I just realized @KateShaw 's latest episode is out, and it's on the saw shark and the sawfish: https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2024/01/08/episode-362-the-sawfish-and-the-sawshark/
it's very good
such as #turtles, #dolphins and #dugongs that are at a high risk from commercial #gillnetting in the Gulf. Many of the Gulf’s #ThreatenedSpecies, including #sawfish, are also of significant cultural importance to #IndigenousAustralians.
Protecting threatened species habitat from the threat of commercial gillnetting in the Gulf is paramount to improving the #survival and recovery of their #populations.
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