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Summary: MANGALURU: The state budget presented a mixed bag for the coast. “The budget has set aside Rs.2.5 crore for the project. About 50% of the grants for the two-year project will be released this year, he added.The International Museum of Konkani Culture is a Rs 30-crore project. As per our information, it is the first instalment,” said Eric Ozario, head, Mandd Sobhann, which has conceptualized the project.The budget has also ear-marked a grant of Rs.2.5 crore for research on the contributions of Basel missionaries to Kannada. This time around, the state has promised to provide 75% grant for the Rs 15-crore project and the rest will have to be pooled in by the Pilikula Nisaraghadhama.MLA JR Lobo said the project is actually a marine aquarium to house marine species.

MANGALURU: The state budget presented a mixed bag for the coast. While the formation of a separate corporation and constitution of a coordination committee for the Yettinahole project did not go well with the people, some token reliefs were given in the form of setting up of an international museum of Konkani culture and oceanarium at Pilikula park.While the oceanarium project was announced in the last year’s budget, its was under the PPP model. This time around, the state has promised to provide 75% grant for the Rs 15-crore project and the rest will have to be pooled in by the Pilikula Nisaraghadhama.MLA JR Lobo said the project is actually a marine aquarium to house marine species.

About 50% of the grants for the two-year project will be released this year, he added.The International Museum of Konkani Culture is a Rs 30-crore project. “The budget has set aside Rs.2.5 crore for the project. As per our information, it is the first instalment,” said Eric Ozario, head, Mandd Sobhann, which has conceptualized the project.The budget has also ear-marked a grant of Rs.2.5 crore for research on the contributions of Basel missionaries to Kannada.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/Budget-a-mixed-bag-for-coast/articleshow/51466411.cms

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Happy birthday to you, Skinny, 40, harbor seal at Oregon Coast Aquarium

Skinny will get top billing Monday at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport.

And why shouldn’t she. It’s not very often that a harbor seal reaches the age of 40 and Monday, June 1, is the celebration of her birthday.

Skinny is the oldest harbor seal in the Northwest, and the third oldest in the United States, according to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which keeps track of such things for accredited members. The average lifespan of female harbor seals is 25 to 30 years.

The Oregon Coast Aquarium will celebrate its golden girl with a birthday party June 1 in seal style. Fish filled ice cakes and piles of ice cubes to munch and lounge on will be on the menu. Entertainment will include enrichment activities like Kong toys stuffed with fishy snacks.

Skinny has been a part of the Oregon Coast Aquarium family from the beginning. She was found starving and orphaned as a pup on a beach in Everett, Wash., on June 1, 1975. She was deemed non-releasable and moved to a long term home at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma. She later moved with a few of her exhibit mates to Newport just before the Aquarium opened in May 1992.

In her prime, Skinny was the dominant harbor seal in the Aquarium’s exhibit. She would often try to swipe fish other seals dropped, especially if it was her favorite food – herring.

She lost interest in maintaining the top spot when she started to lose her sight. The Aquarium’s mammalogists noticed the change, and trained her to respond to tactile, rather than the visual cues.

Despite her loss of eyesight, Skinny continues to learn new behaviors. Her most recent achievement is a high energy exercise oriented activity called a “tail walk.” When cued, Skinny will pop vertically out of the water to her middle, and then use her tail to waddle backwards in that upright position.

Aquarium visitors that wish to spot Skinny in the Pinniped Exhibit should look for her silver coat speckled with black spots and her surprised expression. “The easiest way to spot her is by her big eyes and how she holds her whiskers forward to help her feel her way around the exhibit,” said Brittany Blades, a mammalogist at the Aquarium, in a statement released by the Aquarium.

The Oregon Coast Aquarium is dedicated to the highest quality aquatic and marine science programs for recreation and education so that the public better understands, cherishes, and conserves the world’s natural marine and coastal resources. An accredited Association of Zoos & Aquariums institution, the non-profit organization is ranked as one of the top 10 aquariums in the United States. The address is 2820 S.E. Ferry Slip Rd., South Beach, Newport, Oregon; aquarium.org, 541-867-3474.

Terry Richard
trichard@oregonian.com
503-221-8222; @trichardpdx

Happy birthday to you, Skinny, 40, harbor seal at Oregon Coast Aquarium

Season of Seal Babies Again on Oregon Coast: Cause for Warnings

Published 04/16/2015

(Seaside, Oregon) – Seal pup season has arrived again on the Oregon coast, as the Seaside Aquarium and the Marine Mammal Stranding Network responded to the groups’ first harbor seal baby of the year this week.

Tiffany Boothe of Seaside Aquarium passed on these photos of the spring’s initial offering of adorableness. But it also brought cause for a warning from coastal officials.

While cute and cuddly beyond belief, you absolutely have to let these little ones alone.

Boothe said that well-meaning people sometimes think that a baby seal alone on the beach has been abandoned, but this is not the case. The mother is often nearby, watching, but will not approach with people around. If the baby seal is moved, it has no chance of reuniting with its mother.

“Mammal researches have found that most pups reunite with their mothers after appearing to be ‘abandoned’ for many hours,” Boothe said. “Well-meaning people who remove seal pups from beaches are eliminating the possibility of the pup being reunited with their mother. These people are also violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and they may face criminal and or civil penalties.

“The best thing for you to do is to keep well away from this seal pup thereby reducing stress on the pup and/or alarming its mother.”

The aquarium has dealt with some especially dim-witted members of the public in the past when it comes to harbor seal pups. One year, aquarium manager Keith Chandler had to track down a nearly newborn and finally discovered it had been taken to someone’s hotel room, where they had placed it in a bathtub.

Another example of bad behavior happened in 2007. A newborn – only a foot long – had been spotted in three different beaches just south of Cannon Beach. Numerous beach-goers picked it up and tried to put it back in the surf. This could’ve caused the pup serious harm, if these actions had somehow spooked the mother or otherwise caused the seal to get lost from her.

If it a seal pup is on the beach, Boothe said you can be sure it is resting – and probably in need of a lot of rest. She said they are like all babies: they simply need a lot of sleep.

By going near a resting pup or picking it up, you actually could get it killed. This is why when the Seaside Aquarium – or any section of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network along the coast – responds to such calls they set out “do not disturb” signs around, and maybe even rope the area off.

Anyone who observes incidents of seal pup harassment, or animals in distress, should call the Oregon State Police at 1-800-452-7888.

More photos of this seal from Boothe below.

More baby seal photos from previous years from Boothe:

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Rare leatherback sea turtle rescued on SC coast

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A rare leatherback sea turtle, nicknamed Yawkey and weighing an estimated 500 pounds, was taken to the South Carolina Aquarium after being …

Rare leatherback sea turtle rescued on SC coast

Coast Guard gives turtle a lift from Oregon to California

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 25 (UPI) – A sea turtle rescued in the frigid Pacific Northwest was airlifted by the Coast Guard from Oregon to the more hospitable climate of Southern California.

Solstice, an endangered olive ridley turtle rescued Dec. 21 on Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula, hitched a ride Tuesday on a Coast Guard C-130 training flight from Oregon, where she was being treated at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, to San Diego, where she will complete her rehabilitation at SeaWorld.

Evonne Mochon-Collura of the Oregon Coast Aquarium, said Solstice handled the three hours of air travel well.

“The crew was able to maintain a suitable temperature in the cargo area. [An hour into the flight,] I had the Coast Guard lift the lid. She was resting and calm and fine,” she told U-T San Diego.

Aquarium officials said Solstice was dehydrated and her body temperature was low when she was found in December. They said sea turtles usually don’t go farther north than Southern California, as they require water that’s about 70 degrees to survive, but they are sometimes lured as far north as Alaska by water currents and food supply.

Solstice is expected to complete her rehabilitation and be released into the wild during the summer.