Category: Marine Science
Tiny fish hatchlings give lifeline to one of world’s rarest fish. Fifty newborn red handfish are giving Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) scientists an opportunity to help save the last known populations of ...
Researchers assess whether halibut are increasing. For nearly three centuries Atlantic halibut off New England and Atlantic Canada were taken for food and sometimes discarded as a nuisance, reports an article on the NOAA website. ...
Government failing on marine commitments for Mediterranean. A new WWF report shows that Mediterranean countries are failing on their global commitment to protect at least 10% of marine and coastal areas, and to stop ongoing ...
Meeting the challenges facing fisheries climate risk insurance. Insurance schemes with the potential to improve the resilience of global fisheries face a host of future challenges, researchers say. The world’s first “Fisheries Index Insurance” scheme, ...
WWF urges urgent environmental action. Over £12 billion could be wiped off the UK’s economy every year by 2050 as a result of coastal damages alone, if we fail to act on the escalating environmental ...
Ocean Outcomes secures new support. Ocean Outcomes – the environmental NGO – is the newest portfolio member of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation and the first organisation working in ocean conservation supported by the global venture ...
Climate change is reshaping marine ecology. Climate change is reshaping communities of fish and other sea life, according to a pioneering study on how ocean warming is affecting the mix of species. The study, published in ...
Rock Sole in Alaska may do well in warmer sea. Northern rock sole stocks may benefit from warming in the Bering Sea, a new NOAA Fisheries study suggests. Scientists found the first quantitative evidence that ...
Global assessment of ocean warming impacts. An international group of marine scientists has compiled the most comprehensive assessment of how ocean warming is affecting the mix of species in our oceans – and explained how ...
Irish national marine framework plan. The Marine Institute in Ireland has welcomed the recent publication of the Draft National Marine Planning Framework (NMPF) by Government. The NMPF is the first national framework for managing the ...
Novel method to detect neurotoxins in shellfish. Food safety scientists at the Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), UK have been working closely with the Cawthron Institute, New Zealand’s largest independent science ...
Millions of N. Sea seabirds rely on discarded fish. Millions of scavenging seabirds survive on fish discarded by North Sea fishing vessels, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists estimate that 267,000 tonnes of fish ...
Antarctic science trip reveals toothfish secrets. The New Zealand ship Janas has recently returned from a six-week winter research voyage to the Ross Sea where scientists made the first observations of developing Antarctic toothfish embryos. ...
Restoring abundance to our oceans. At Sustainable Brands Oceans in Porto, Portugal today Alexandra Cousteau, Environmentalist and advocate for our oceans, launched her Ocean 2050 campaign outlining the blueprint for restoring abundance to the oceans. ...
Glider deployed in ocean research project. The Irish Marine Institute‘s marine glider was deployed in to the North Atlantic Ocean, as part of the 5th project meeting for the Innovation in the Framework of the ...
Cats of the sea offer insights into territorial behaviour of wild fishes. The entertaining spectacle of wild fishes chasing lasers shone onto the seabed could provide scientists with an innovative way of measuring their territory ...
Rising sea temperatures slow growth in young Pacific cod Preliminary findings from a new laboratory study suggest that when ocean temperatures rise, lower fat prey leads to slower growth for juvenile Pacific cod, according to an ...
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