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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
UK’s biggest seagrass restoration scheme – one million seeds to be planted. Seagrass captures carbon quicker than rainforest – new pilot project in Wales to restore important marine habitat could […]
Climate change leads to coral reef decline. New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill compares the growth rates between nearshore and offshore corals in the Belize […]
Canada tackles plastic pollution and ghost fishing gear in our oceans. Plastic pollution is a global challenge that requires immediate action. It pollutes our rivers, lakes, and oceans and entangles […]
Scientists research Caribbean reefs. A group of scientists from NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), MARUM (Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen) and ZMT (Bremen) […]
Longline fishing impacting upon shark populations. Commercial longline fishing around the world is having a significant impact on migrating shark populations, according to an international study featuring a University of […]
Independent offshore environmental authority called for by NE Canadian fishers. The Federation of Independent Sea Harvesters of Newfoundland and Labrador (FISH-NL) supports is calling for an independent authority to oversee […]
Protected seamounts show signs of recovery. According to Florida State University, decades of fishing has devastated parts of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, wrecking deep-sea […]
Sharks scarcer near large human populations. A team of researchers, led by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), has discovered that sharks are much rarer in habitats nearer large human populations […]
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