Tag: Marine conservation
IPNLF to launch ghost net retrieval project. Funded by the inaugural Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Solutions Award, a new initiative will be launched by IPNLF aimed at incentivising coastal fisheries to collect and upcycle lost ...
Quest to find native oysters in UK waters. Wildlife photographers across the UK are being challenged to capture underwater images of the rare European native oyster (Ostrea edulis), as international conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society ...
Canada announces measures to protect right whales. The Government of Canada has announced new measures to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale – there are only roughly 400 left in the world. Over the ...
ICES workshop aims to map deepwater sharks in the north-east Atlantic. Experts in shark biology, data and mapping recently met at the Marine Institute’s headquarters in Oranmore, Co Galway to map the distribution of deepwater ...
Family matters for world’s second biggest fish. The world’s second biggest fish – the basking shark – prefers to travel with family to familiar feeding sites, according to a new study led by the University ...
Cook Inlet beluga whales declining. NOAA Fisheries of the USA has released its biennial abundance estimate for endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales in Alaska. Scientists estimated that the population size is between 250 and 317, with a ...
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 ...
Whale entanglements putting west coast USA fisheries at risk. An ecological pileup of unprecedented changes in the ocean off the West Coast of the USA beginning about 2014 led to record entanglements of humpback and ...
No take marine reserves, where fishing is banned, can reverse the decline in the world’s coral reef shark populations caused by overfishing, according to an Australian study. But University of Queensland, James Cook University (JCU) ...
Areas of Med need protected to avoid turtle bycatch. Loggerhead turtles feed in the same places year after year – meaning key locations in the Mediterranean should be protected, researchers say. University of Exeter scientists used ...
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, ...
New study reveals need for protection of Atlantic tarpon. The results of an 18-year study of Atlantic tarpon by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science revealed that ...
MMO launches consultation on draft marine plans. This week, the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) launched the public consultation on the draft North East, draft North West, draft South East and draft South West Marine Plans. The consultation will be open between ...
Fisheries management is actually working, global analysis shows. Nearly half of the fish caught worldwide are from stocks that are scientifically monitored and, on average, are increasing in abundance. Effective management appears to be the ...
MPAs in the Med benefit fish stocks. Marine protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea are home to more fish species, with the greatest gains found among species most sensitive to exploitation, according to new research. ...
New study on fisheries impact on seabirds. According to an article on the Barcelona University website, seabirds are the most threatened birds in the planet due to the fishing activity, predation and loss of breeding ...
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