Tag: Climate change
Tropical nations worst hit by climate-related fish shifts. Policymakers will need to step up to the challenges caused by significant shifts in fish species distributions caused by climate change, according to new research. Tropical countries ...
Study shows Pacific cod eggs vulnerable to temperature changes. The 2013 to 2016 marine heatwave—known as “The Blob”—is the largest warm anomaly ever recorded in the North Pacific, according to an article on the NOAA ...
European fish stocks moving northwards. Many European fish populations are on the move due to warming oceans and increasing numbers, according to new research from an international team of scientists led by the International Council ...
Sussex trawler ban to help kelp forest revival. A campaign to restore a large underwater kelp forest has been helped by an agreement to ban trawler fishing off the West Sussex coast, according to a ...
Explorers Super Hero Pop Art & Creative Writing Competition – The Marine Institute’s Explorers Education Programme yesterday (Monday 27th January) launched the Explorers Super Hero Pop Art & Creative Writing competition, where all primary school ...
EU fishers call for freeze on offshore wind farm development. On 22 January 2020, the seminar ‘Can Fisheries and Offshore Wind Farms Coexist?’ took place in the European Parliament hosted by MEP Peter van Dalen, ...
Argo float deployed in Atlantic by Galway family. Marine Institute Argo Float was deployed in December 2019 en route from Cape Verde Islands to French Guiana by the Quinlan-Owens family from Galway, on board their ...
Sea Change: how do we safeguard the future of our seas? How does the climate emergency affect our seas? What can we do about plastics in the ocean? Which fish should we eat? How can ...
Marine Protected Areas must be mobile. World leaders are currently updating the laws for international waters that apply to most of the world’s ocean environment. This provides a unique opportunity, marine scientists argued last week, ...
Blue mussels’ ability to buffer climate induced stress could benefit aquaculture. Blue mussels can change patterns of gene expression to make more proteins that help with heat stress and facilitate energy production. This ability makes ...
Study reveals impact of fish processing on greenhouse gas emissions. A new study of the climate impacts of seafood products reveals that the processing of Alaskan pollock into fish sticks, imitation crab, and fish fillets ...
Marine climate change centre launched. Cefas has today launched its International Marine Climate Change Centre (iMC3), bringing together scientists from different disciplines to better understand impacts of climate change on marine environments and coastal areas. The ...
UK climate change impacts ‘could affect commercial fisheries’. The newly published Marine Climate Change Impact Report Card 2020 says that by 2050, climate change driven impacts ‘could become a major constraint on some commercial species’ ...
Little relief in the deep for heat-stressed corals. A team of NOAA scientists recently examined more than a thousand hot water events on coral reefs across the Pacific Ocean. Combining on-site monitoring with satellite records, ...
Nueva Pescanova makes solar power moves. The Nueva Pescanova Group, in line with its commitment to responsible management of resources, is moving towards the energy transition of resources by incorporating photovoltaic solar energy in its ...
Harlees Fish and Chips tackles climate change. Harlees Fish and Chips in Verwood, Dorset, have reduced their carbon footprint by a whopping 10.6 tonnes of carbon per year. The family run business has invested into ...
Impacts of climate change on oceans. The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted on 10 December two resolutions on Oceans and Law of the Seas and on Sustainable Fisheries. In this context, the EU called for ...
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