Tag: Marine ecology
Mauritius oil spill highlights importance of global maritime laws. The grounding last month of the MV Wakashio in an environmentally sensitive and biodiverse area, has endangered marine life, food security, and health in Mauritius, as ...
Ocean Fish forms new partnership with MULTIVAC UK to launch Ocean prevented plastic for all retail packed products. Family-owned fishing, retail supplier and processing import-export business, Ocean Fish has recently been working with MULTIVAC UK ...
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, ...
Oceans of Learning celebrates our sea with success. Over the past 10 weeks, the Marine Institute and partners have been celebrating our seas through our Oceans of Learning series, by offering news, online activities and ...
Rising water temperatures threaten fish reproduction. Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have published ground-breaking findings on the effects of climate change for fish stocks around the globe. As ...
Climate change threatens fish species, 60% of fish species could be unable to survive in current areas by 2100 according to study and reported in an article by the Guardian Newspaper. Warming water temperatures lower ...
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 ...
Tackling the threat of ghost fishing gear. A short update is provided below by Brendan Carruthers from The International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF) who, through funding from the Joanna Toole Ghost Gear Solutions Award, ...
New study projects ocean warming impact on Antarctic krill. Ocean warming is likely to alter the distribution and lifecycle of ecologically and commercially important Antarctic krill over the rest of this century, according to new ...
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 ...
Pacific oysters microplastics study shows they may not contain as many as previously thought. Plastic pollution is an increasingly present threat to marine life and one which can potentially impact your dinner table. Oysters, and ...
Lionfish could disrupt Mediterranean ecosystem. An invasive species first identified in the Mediterranean Sea just eight years ago is likely to become a permanent feature of the region, a new study suggests. First seen off ...
Deepwater Horizon study reveals fish impacts. On April 20, 2010, the offshore oil drilling ship Deepwater Horizon exploded, killing 11 crewmen and resulting in over $60 billion in clean-up costs, penalties, fines and restitution to ...
UK plankton population has undergone sweeping changes. The UK’s plankton population – microscopic algae and animals which support the entire marine food web – has undergone sweeping changes in the past six decades, according to ...
New research reveals strongest predictors of menhaden growth. New research suggests that large-scale environmental factors influence the size of one of the ocean’s most abundant forage species. Recently, scientists from LSU, NOAA, the University of ...
UK marine scientist awarded grant for climate change research. 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 ...
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