Tag: Marine ecology
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Larval fish are ingesting plastics. New research has shown for the first time, that larval fish across a range of fish species from different ocean habitats are surrounded by and ingesting plastics in their preferred ...
NZ catfish initiative scoops award. Winners of 10 awards were celebrated at the 2019 New Zealand Biosecurity Awards held in Auckland on Monday, 4 November 2019, with the supreme award going to Te Arawa Lakes ...
Irish study into migration mortality of salmon. Aisling Doogan is a PhD student at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) and a Cullen Fellow at the Marine Institute. As part of her PhD she is investigating ...
Warm waters challenge fish health. Warmer than average sea temperatures this year, beginning late winter to its peak in July, have provided challenges to salmon and lumpfish survival at several of Mowi’s salmon farms in ...
The River Clean initiative 2020 – Transnational River Clean Up at CPMR’s Political Bureau Meeting on 11th of June 2020. To raise awareness of marine litter in the ocean and the source of the problem. ...
New farmed oyster research. Oysters bred for fast growth and disease resistance are able to adapt their shell growth to protect themselves from environmental acidification, according to new research. Ocean and coastal acidification – the ...
Vulnerability of Bering Sea marine life to climate change. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists in the USA and partners have released a Climate Vulnerability Assessment for groundfish, crabs, and salmon in the Eastern ...
Research on measures for integrated coastal zone governance. “Municipal coastal planners are being subjected to a lot of criticism for failing to take everyone’s interests into account, although they do an important and good job,” ...
Marine species at risk unless High Seas Treaty closes gaps. Thousands of marine species could be at risk if a new United Nations high-seas biodiversity treaty, now being negotiated in New York, does not include ...
Grey seal fish consumption research. By analysing their stomach contents and faeces, and multiplying the results by the number of grey seals in Norway, researchers estimated that they consume 8,000 tonnes of fish per year. ...
U.S. researchers monitor impact of marine heatwave. U.S. researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are monitoring a new marine heatwave off the West Coast of the USA for effects on the marine ...
Canada moves to protect fish species at risk. The Canadian fisheries minister, Jonathan Wilkinson, has signed six Critical Habitat Orders this year under the Species at Risk Act. The approved Critical Habitat Orders will allow ...
Constructive negotiations to protect the high seas. The European Commission has described negotiations with international partners to protect the marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction – commonly called the high seas – as being ...
Your No. 1 Source for Seafood News
Fish Focus is an online communications, marketing, news and information platform offering a wide range of services for the seafood sector covering all aspects of aquaculture, commercial fishing, seafood processing and the route to market. Follow us on social media platforms for Fish Focus, Aquaculture Focus and Seafood Focus.
Like Us On Facebook
Follow us