Emily Tripp Senior Writer The Economist’s World Oceans Summit will begin one month from today, from February 22 to 24, in Singapore. The Summit will be chaired by John Micklethwait, Editor-in-chief of The Economist and will focus on how the increasing activity in and around the oceans can be managed successfully and sustainably. More than [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer An economist and two marine scientists have suggested that we could save whales by creating tradable harvest quotas. Every year, anti-whaling nonprofit organizations spend nearly $25 million on efforts to end commercial whaling. Unfortunately, every year, commercial whaling still continues to grow. The number of whales harvested annually has doubled since [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer A study in a marine protected area in Belize has shown that fishing closures boost predatory fish populations, but don’t benefit herbivorous fish as much. The 14 year study was conducted by the Wildlife Conservation Society in an atoll reef lagoon in Glover’s Reef, Belize. The fishing closures have aided in the recovery [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer The Australian Government plans to create the world’s largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea. According to Environment Minister Tony Burke, the protected zone would cover an area more than one and a half times the size of France. In this zone, new fishing limits would be imposed and all oil [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer The ‘breakfast breakout session’ titled “Shark Attack: ‘Human Kind at Its Worst’” at the SEJ Conference on Saturday was composed of a group of four people, passionate about sharks. The session title came from impressive words from Jean-Michel Cousteau who once said that “shark finning is humankind at its worst”. It covered topics from shark [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer NOAA’s Fisheries Service, along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Mexican environmental officials have released a new plan to protect the endangered Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle. The updated Bi-National Recovery Plan was signed on September 22. “We are working together with other U.S. and Mexican agencies on the recovery [...]
By Henry Workman Marine Science Today Writer In a message to Congress on Thursday President Obama announced: “I am not directing the Secretary of the Treasury to impose trade measures on Icelandic products for the whaling activities that led to the certification by the Secretary of Commerce.” This was in response to a deadline [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer It was revealed today that Iceland’s commercial whaling industry exported an additional 133 metric tons of endangered fin whale products to Japan in July of this year. “There is a line in the sand that Iceland has just crossed,” said Allan Thornton, President of the Environmental Investigation Agency. “The Icelandic killing [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer Clemson University population biologist Peter Marko and his colleagues Holly Nance and Kimberly Guynn, have found discrepancies among certified Chilean sea bass. Some fish sold in stores do not come from areas that are certified as sustainable. What’s worse is that some fish are not even Chilean sea bass at all. [...]
Emily Tripp Senior Writer According to researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, a marine reserve and wildlife park near the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja peninsula is the most robust reserve in the world. This ten-year analysis Cabo Pulmo National Park (CPNP) was published in PLoS ONE and revealed that the [...]
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