Each year, enough fishing line to circle the Earth 18 times is lost at sea. This not only harms marine life, but also the livelihoods of fishers worldwide.
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Ghana’s maritime economy faces significant challenges in becoming viable.
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Zebra and quagga mussels entered the Great Lakes in large ships’ ballast water. Now, local boaters and anglers are spreading them into the southern and western US.
There is a need for better innovations and policies to help improve the fisheries sector in this region.
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As nations pledge to preserve swaths of ocean within their territorial waters, a marine scientist explains why some marine protected areas shelter ocean life more effectively than others.
Creating opportunities to meaningfully engage women in governance and decision-making is necessary to achieve gender equality in small-scale fisheries.
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Suspending mackerel and spring herring fishing in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence will impact the fishing industry on many levels.
One of the oldest industries, fishing, is entering the world of advanced analytics and data-driven planning. With oceans under stress and key fish stocks dwindling, can precision fishing help?
Technology and regulation have solved some issues with bycatch. To reduce damage to marine life further, we can harness the skills of our best fishers.
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Every gun and bullet sold in the U.S. generates excise taxes to support conservation. But Americans are buying guns now for different reasons than in the past – and increasingly, not for hunting.
Water is central to adapting to climate change, but very few of the strategies put in place to respond to water hazards or ensure its availability have been evaluated.
It involves a trade-off between seafood production and seabed conservation.
To a group of hungry killer whales, a longline fishing boat looks like an all-you-can-eat buffet.
Top contributors
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Director & Professor, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia
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Wen Family Chair in Conservation, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Marine Ecology and Fisheries Biology, University of Plymouth; Marine Biological Association
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Professor of Marine Ecology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Complex Systems and Environmental Policy, Bournemouth University
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Senior Research Fellow, Conservation Science, University of Oxford; Bangor University
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Professor & ARC Laureate Fellow, Thriving Oceans Research Hub, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
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Research Scientist, Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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Chief Scientist, Heriot-Watt University
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Emeritus Professor of Environmental Governance, UCL
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Researcher in Ecosystem Dynamics, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor, Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
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Associate professor, Singapore Management University
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Associate Professor in Marine Biology, Swansea University