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The competing priorities of aiding otter recovery and support for ailing coastal fishing communities appear on a collision course. But sea otters are more than just our cute competition.More
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(Vancouver Sun) The sad story of Newfoundland’s cod industry is well known: When the region’s once-thriving cod population collapsed in 1992, 40,000 jobs vanished along with a way of life. Atlantic cod, previously abundant, became an endangered species.More
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Tim McClanahan and Ayana Elizabeth Johnson of the Wildlife Conservation Society have won the Solution Search: Turning the Tide for Coastal Fisheries award. Solution Search was designed to help bring recognition to innovative community-based conservation projects.More
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(Suplemento Día del Petróleo de Diario Crónic) “The world moves by oil,” wrote Pablo Garcia Borborglu, a researcher at the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET), in commentary published in the of Suplemento Día del Petróleo de Diario Crónic, an oil industry newspaper in Argentina.More
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Published in the 19 December issue of PLoS One, Fiorenza Micheli, a professor at Stanford University, and 18 co-authors report on the broadest field study of ocean acidification to date.More
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In the preceding two columns, I mentioned that many successful conservation projects on marine biodiversity have been undertaken by local governments and local communities.More
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In the December 2011 issue of Biological Conservation, Scott Baker, the associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute and a professor of fisheries and wildlife at Oregon State University, and Mark Costello published an editorial in response to a paper in the same issue that reported that the human consumption of marine mammals, including cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises), pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, walruses) and sirenians (manatees, dugongs), has increased in recent decades.More
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An ashy pallor has spread across South Florida’s coral reefs over the past few months, as stressed corals expelled the algae that gives them color.More
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Marine fisheries contribute to the global economy, from the catching of fish to the provision of support services for the fishing industry. A general lack of data and uncertainty about the level of employment in marine fisheries can lead to underestimation of fishing effort and hence overexploited fisheries, or result in inaccurate projections of economic and societal costs and benefits.More
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Barney Frank, a Massachusetts Democratic Congressman, has been a steady and uncommonly effective ally to fisherman has retired, according to an article published by the Associated Press on 3 December 2011.More
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Much debate has been stirred over the European Commission’s proposal that European Union fish stocks should be restored above levels that can produce Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) by 2015, according to a blog entry posted on 1 December 2011 on CFP Reform Watch.More
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In a new scientific paper and book, Tim McClanahan of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and colleagues propose a novel framework for helping millions of people to cope with massive changes in their jobs, lives, and environment driven by the warming climate.More
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Climate change may exacerbate the poor condition of global marine fisheries already stressed by overfishing, pollution, and habitat degradation, according to a new study in Nature Climate Change. Rashid Sumaila and co-authors drew from observations, experiments, and computer models to show that as climate change alters water temperature and chemical cycling in the oceans, the distribution and abundance of many marine species will be altered as well.More
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A 9 November article on Mongabay.com reviews a study that challenges whether marine reserves promote coral recovery.More
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The 5 November article in ScienceNews titled, “Lopped Off: Removal of top tredator trickles through the food web,” recounts an event that occurred in July, in which the Ecuadorean navy helped apprehend a fishing vessel within the waters of the Galápagos National Park.More
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