Deep Dives
Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
Ocean Stewardship Coalition, UN Global Compact Fisheries & Aquaculture
The purpose of this report is to position seaweed, or marine macroalgae, as a significant nature-based climate solution with large scaling potential that can directly sequester carbon and indirectly displace greenhouse gas emissions in numerous ways, with clear economic and ecological co-benefits that make it a form of “charismatic carbon” and a holistic nature-based climate solution.
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Short, R.E. et al., Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
Concerns that the global food system is failing to deliver safe, nutritious, sustainable and equitable diets have intensified over the past decade, leading to calls for food system transformation.
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Golden, C.D. et al,, Nature Fisheries & Aquaculture
Despite contributing to healthy diets for billions of people, aquatic foods are often undervalued as a nutritional solution because their diversity is often reduced to the protein and energy value of a single food type (‘seafood’ or ‘fish’).
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Richa Syal, Environmental Reporting Collective Fisheries & Aquaculture
Conservationists are sounding the alarm over the international race to exploit the Antarctic's krill swarms.
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Willem van der Pijl, Aqua-Spark Fisheries & Aquaculture
We at Aqua-Spark believe that aquaculture production will have to accelerate and have identified tilapia to be the fish to do so: it’s scalable and it’s healthy, sustainable, and affordable.
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Sustainable Use, Mariculture and Conservation of Giant Clams in the Marine Regulated Fishing Area of Reao Atoll, Tuamotu.
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Alexandra Talty, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
Kelp can clean New York’s polluted waters, tackle climate change and is sustainable – but growers need a law change first.
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Howells, E.J. et al., Science Advances Fisheries & Aquaculture
Reef-building corals thriving in extreme thermal environments may provide genetic variation that can assist the evolution of populations to rapid climate warming. However, the feasibility and scale of genetic improvements remain untested despite ongoing population declines from recurrent thermal stress events.
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Dee Hon, BC Business Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
But our growing ocean economy faces stiff competition from overseas.
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Park, J.S. et al, World Aquaculture Society Fisheries & Aquaculture
Although Korea is third in seaweed production and second in shellfish production globally, this is the first study evaluating ecosystem services of seaweed and shellfish aquaculture in Korea.
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Our Shared Seas Fisheries & Aquaculture
The purpose of this essay is to better understand the current state and future of sustainable investing in the ocean and fisheries.
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Eric Klinenberg, The New Yorker Fisheries & Aquaculture
How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.
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Blue Marine Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
The emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.
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Global Mangrove Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture
The State of the World’s Mangroves provides the very latest information on what we know about mangroves and what’s being done to support these magnificent habitats.
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Karen McVeigh, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture
The MSC’s coveted blue tick is the world’s biggest, and some say best, fishery ecolabel. So why is it in the headlines – and does it really do what it says on the tin?
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Sanchirico, J.N. & Essington, T.E., Ecological Applications Fisheries & Aquaculture
In this research, we investigate the potential economic and ecological gains from adopting ecosystem-based approaches for the sardine and anchovy fisheries off of the coast of California.
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Maire, E. et al., Current Biology Fisheries & Aquaculture
Global marine fisheries yields are threatened by climate change and overfishing, yet understanding of how these stressors affect the nutrients available from fisheries is lacking.
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Predicted Shifts in the Distributions of Atlantic Reef-Building Corals in the Face of Climate Change
Principe, S.C. et al., Frontiers Fisheries & Aquaculture
With climate change, many coral species are experiencing shifts in their distributions, threatening the preservation of coral reefs.
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Skerritt, D.J. & Sumaila, UR., Fisheries Economics Research Unit / Oceana Fisheries & Aquaculture
For years we have known that governments subsidize fishing by their own fleets in the waters of other nations. But we did not know exactly where those dollars were destined, making it hard to determine a cumulative footprint for foreign subsidy spending in coastal state waters.
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Theuerkauf, SJ et al., Reviews in Aquaculture Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture can have negative environmental impacts, adding to the suite of anthropogenic stressors that challenge coastal ecosystems. However, a growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the commercial cultivation of bivalve shellfish and seaweed can deliver valuable ecosystem goods and services, including provision of new habitats for fish and mobile invertebrate species.
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