Tag: Marine conservation
WWF in partnership with Sky Ocean Rescue. WWF is one of the world’s largest independent conservation organisations, active in nearly 100 countries. Our supporters – more than five million of them – are helping us ...
Loggerhead Marinelife Centre’s Go Blue Awards, nominations now open for one of the world’s most pre-eminent ocean conservation awards. The 12th Annual Go Blue Awards, hosted by Loggerhead Marine Centre (LMC), is now accepting nominations ...
Emerging themes to support UK marine biodiversity conservation. Robert Clarke of the Institutes Estuarine and Marine Specialist Section recently contributed to a paper on future MPA policy in the UK. The abstract from the paper ...
Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world Fish market favourites such as orange roughy, common octopus and pink conch are among the species of fish and invertebrates in rapid decline around the world, ...
Sea turtle watching standard debuted by Friend of the Sea. Global certification standards body provides guidelines for sustainable observation of a wide range of sea turtle species Friend of the Sea, the preeminent global certification ...
Great British Beach Clean to be held in September. This September during Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, the Marine Conservation Society will run its annual Great British Beach Clean for a week of citizen science from 18 – 25th September 2020, supported ...
Illegal fishing of sharks and rays caught on camera in Mediterranean. Multiple species of sharks and rays, some of them critically endangered, are being illegally caught on a regular basis in the Mediterranean Sea, evidence ...
Tropical and temperate reefs react differently to fishing pressures. An international team of researchers focused on what can happen to ocean ecosystems when fishing pressure increases or decreases, and how this differs between tropical to ...
New funding will continue FAO-led Common Oceans Programme. The approval of the Global Environment Facility’s (GEF) new work programme of USD 700 million for urgent environmental action – through and beyond the coronavirus pandemic – ...
Campaign calling for turtle excluder devices to be used in fisheries. Friend of the Sea, the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that promotes sustainable seafood production, has announced that it has launched a new petition urging governments to protect ...
Sanford welcomes dolphin transition plan. Sanford Limited, New Zealand’s oldest and largest seafood company, says it is pleased to see a transition plan for affected fishers has been included as part of the new protections ...
Bright future for sea urchin aquaculture. Philip James leads an €8 million Horizon 2020 project called AquaVitae, with the mission to develop sustainable solutions for low-tropic aquaculture in the Atlantic, reports an article on the ...
Fishery NGOs receive grant funding for sustainability projects. Fishery environmental NGOs Ocean Outcomes and Blue Finance have become the first grant recipients of Convergence’s Asia Natural Window Capital. With funding from the RS Group for ...
Surveying Dublin Bay Prawn populations in Ireland. Nephrops are an orange-pink lobster, commonly known as the Dublin Bay Prawn, and are one of the most valuable shellfish landings in Europe. Scientists at the Marine Institute assess ...
Sea Shepherd files lawsuit against US agencies over dolphin threat. Sea Shepherd Legal and its co-counsel, Earthrise Law Centre, filed a lawsuit on May 21st against US agencies that have failed to take legally mandated action ...
Fishing less win for lobstermen and endangered whales. A new study by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) found that New England’s historic lobster fishery may turn a higher profit by operating with less gear in ...
New research on threatened ocean predators. A marine scientist at the Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA) Laboratory in Plymouth, UK, has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to fund cutting edge ...
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