Tag: fishing
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How fish food became cat food
Great Menhaden infographic from Pew – way to get a message across. [Source: Pew Environment Group]
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Why do oceans matter?
Here’s why: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qojYm8JHKfE&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] From One World One Ocean
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Shark fins banned in world’s 2nd largest market — California
Yes, America, the California market for shark-fin soup is the largest outside Asia. Which means that much of the carnage John has documented in previous SeaMonster posts (see here, here, and here) is washing up right here in your backyard. Read it and weep. But the sun also rises. The California legislature passed the shark-fin…
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Rough seas for National Ocean Policy
Last summer, to the excitement of ocean policy wonks and yawns by pretty much everyone else, President Obama unveiled a new National Ocean Policy. The basic idea was to cut through the impenetrable tangle of regulations governing marine activities like fishing, shipping, oil drilling, and conservation that have sprouted up willy-nilly in the various agencies…
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Fisherman
I love this list of images of the fisherman that supply the innovative seafood project “Sea to Table” here. We always talk about them but rarely see or meet them.
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NYT covers recent shark legislation and SeaMonster!
The NYT ran two articles – here and here – recently about shark fishing and pending legislation to reduce it. I was interviewed for the article exerpted below by Elisabeth Rosenthal because of all the coverage we have had about illegal shark fishing on SeaMonster, eg, here and here. The last 12 months have seen a…
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A Whale of A Shark
In New Guinea, the world’s largest living fish share the water with local fishermen. Lucky for us, photographer Michael Aw was ready with his camera. The giant fish is hard to study in part because it is hard to find and track. By tagging individual specimens, scientists have learned that whale sharks can log thousands…
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Cat got your fish?
A great op-ed by Paul Greenberg (of Four Fish fame) in the NYT (hat tip to my UNC colleague, tuna goddess Dr. Elizabeth Havice). I suspect many people will be surprised to learn the true fate of so many of the wild fish we catch. I just lectured about this in my Marine Ecology course, and made…
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How much is the ocean worth? In Australia at least $25B a year
A new report from an Australian think tank has made an attempt to estimate the value of services that the ocean surrounding the continent of Australia provides free of charge to human society, such as fishing, clean water, nursery habitats, carbon sequestration, and so on. The conclusion: Australia’s marine ecosystems are worth $25 billion a…
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Catch Shares
Michael Conathan of the CAP has a nice article on catch shares out here and another on some of the reaction in the US congress to it here. Catch shares is a way of regulating commercial fishing (and managing fisheries) that NOAA has been implementing for roughly the last two years that is based on a…