Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
The Maritime Executive Fisheries & Aquaculture
The EPA has opened solicitations for grant money totaling $3 billion, primarily aimed at reducing emissions and diesel exhaust pollution for cleaner ports.
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Andrea Willige, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
KAUST in Saudi Arabia has released the Global Ocean Gene Catalog 1.0. It contains more than 317 million gene clusters and is the largest open-source catalogue of marine microbes to date.
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Rashid Sumaila, The Conversation Fisheries & Aquaculture
Study finds that without nurturing ocean life, addressing climate change becomes an uphill battle.
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Scott Spillias, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Potential benefits of marine permaculture include ecosystem restoration, pollution reduction and empowerment of local communities.
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Emmy Hawker, ESG Investor Fisheries & Aquaculture
Sustainable aquaculture can serve climate objectives. Fish farms can be co-located with new renewable energy sites and farmed seafood is a comparatively low-carbon source of protein.
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Tom Crowfoot, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
Companies around the world are making the most of an unexpected tool in the world’s fight to tackle the climate crisis – seaweed.
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A new reef insurance policy will help with reattaching broken corals and debris clean-up; the insurance payouts will provide community assistance activities that will alleviate food and water security concerns caused by storm damage.
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Linda Chen, Hatch Fisheries & Aquaculture
An analysis of the $808 million invested in the aquaculture industry by venture funds in the last 12 months.
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Brent E. Feldman, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture
As ocean acidification intensifies, the future of the oyster hangs in the balance – and with it, environmental and economic ecosystems.
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Michael Le Page, New Science Fisheries & Aquaculture
Studies find that bottom trawling, a controversial and destructive fishing technique, releases large amounts of carbon dioxide from the seabed.
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Saima May Sidik, Eos Fisheries & Aquaculture
Submerged seaweed can store carbon at the bottom of the ocean, but how effective the strategy will be—and how it will affect ocean health—remains unclear.
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Mark C. Anderson, Middlebury Institute of International Studies/News Fisheries & Aquaculture
The wild wetlands of the Stillaguamish River Basin and Snohomish County River Deltas in Washington state are beautiful.
Their intrinsic value is clear, but what is the return on investment for rewilding them?
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Fabian Dawson, SeaWestNews Fisheries & Aquaculture
In a growing world, fisheries and aquaculture offer a sustainable food source.
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Rob Fletcher, The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
A review of Jennifer Bushman's knowledge, insight and predictions for the salmon market into 2024 and beyond.
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The Fish Site Fisheries & Aquaculture
New insights into the habitat benefits of seaweed and shellfish farms in temperate ecosystems are emerging.
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Emma Desrochers, Seafood Source Fisheries & Aquaculture
London, U.K.-based nonprofit Planet Tracker has propsoed a new financial system it said could help combat overfishing while allowing investors to fulfill established environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals.
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A first-of-its-kind small-scale fisheries (SSF) Impact Bond, the world’s first such bond will specifically targeting the small-scale fisheries sector.
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Chris Gorell Barnes, Ocean14 Capital Fisheries & Aquaculture
Tackling the climate crisis and decarbonising the economy is a massive endeavour. Adding the ocean to the equation is the only way to make the outcome possible. But what is the one thing we can all do?
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Einar Gustafsson, Tim Fitzgerald, Economist Impact Fisheries & Aquaculture
Government policy needs to play a bigger role in sustainable seafood challenges.
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Charlotte Langley, Economist Impact Fisheries & Aquaculture
Uninformed choices at the seafood counter can unknowingly endorse overfishing, casting an ominous shadow over fish populations and their marine habitats.
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