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Welcome to the April edition of The Marine Biologist.

In our cover story, climate change is driving endangered whale sharks into areas more heavily used by shipping. The need for targeted marine management, responsive to animal redistributions is clearly needed.

Let us turn to a captivating story that first appeared as a research paper in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association. As a tiny orphan, Tico the manatee was rescued on a Brazilian beach by the NGO Aquasis. He was rehabilitated, and, at the age of 8, released back into the wild. Soon after, Tico took off into the open ocean. The wayward sirenian covered 4,000 km in just 62 days, hotly pursued in planes, boats, and automobiles by author Camila Carvalho de Carvalho and colleagues. I hope to hear more about Tico!

The need to integrate ocean literacy into a more rounded curriculum spurred Dr Ceri Lewis and Jamie Buchanan-Dunlop to help educators incorporate the ocean into their teaching. Find out more in this issue.

We also dive into a groundbreaking project that uses new technology and citizen science to spy on the lives of juvenile fish.

There are more great features in this edition, and the usual roundup of the latest developments in marine biology, news from the Association, and reviews of books. If you are not already a member of the MBA, join today and receive The Marine Biologist in print and online four time a year.

All this and the usual roundup of current ocean issues, reviews of books and podcasts, and Association news.

You can read articles from this edition (see above) but to enjoy the whole magazine you need to be an MBA Member.