Tag: fishing
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My congressional testimony on Magnuson-Stevens
I will be testifying tomorrow before the Committee on Natural Resources on the Reauthorization of the Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. Watch the hearing live here. This is my opening statement: Chairman Hastings and Ranking Member DeFazio, My name is John Bruno and I am a marine community ecologist and Professor of Biology at…
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Mikono ya Wavuvi (In Fishermen’s Hands)
This excellent video is by Austin Humphries, a PhD student working with Tim McClanahan in Kenya on coral reef ecology and conservation. It recently won the People’s Choice Award at the Beneath the Waves Film Festival! Check it out.
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What does the election mean for national ocean policy?
Answer: no big changes at NOAA, where the agency will try to consolidate all the new policies it developed during Obama’s first term. But what congress and the White House will do is more complicated. One of my big concerns about a Romney win, was the loss of Dr Jane Lubchenco, who heads NOAA. In…
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Scraping the seafloor smooth
The editorial below is from the NYTand references a new study in Nature (Puig et al 2012). As described by Lucas Laursen: Deep-sea trawling smoothes out the wrinkles of canyons on the continental slope, making marine mountainsides look more like ploughed fields, changing the habitat of deep-sea creatures…For almost a century, fishing fleets have trawled…
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Saving the world’s fisheries
A new editorial from the WaPost: THE WORLD’S WATERS are dangerously overfished, threatening the health and livelihood of millions across the planet. A new study from consulting firm California Environmental Associates, part of which appeared in the journal Science last week, estimates that “over 40 percent of fisheries have crashed or are overfished, producing economic losses…
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Traceability of the seafood supply chain
This is a repost of two articles by Mark Gibson from Breaching the Blue: FishWise’s Mariah Boyle just put out an excellent white paper on seafood traceability efforts by nonprofits, governments, and companies. It is comprehensive and concisely written. I highly recommend it for those marine policy wonks out there. The report can be found here. A few excerpts to…
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Five things I didn’t know about the ocean
My review of Professor Callum Roberts’ new book The Ocean of Life has just come out in Toronto’s Globe and Mail. This is the follow up to his first book An unnatural history of the sea (it was one of the Five Books I picked for the Browser) – it dives into the history of how we’ve stripped…
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Catch shares
This is a repost of several articles by Mark Gibson from Breaching the Blue: A new study evaluates the impacts of catch share management in the U.S. and Canada, finding: [C]atch shares result in environmental improvements, economic improvements, and a mixture of changes in social performance, relative to the race for fish under traditional management. Environmentally, compliance with total…
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Reunion island surfers calling for shark massacre
I’m so disappointed to read about the surfers of Reunion island calling for sharks to be fished and removed from a marine reserve after several surfers were attacked (some fatally): After third shark attack fatality, Protesters ask Prefect of Reunion Island to allow shark fishing in Marine Reserve. In the aftermath of the latest fatal shark…
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Oceans of Garbage
Great infographic from the folks over at mastersdegree.net. Created by: MastersDegree.net