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Expedition Cuba Part 3: Collaborative Research Establishes Baseline Monitoring in Cuba
10 years 8 months ago
By: Kendra Karr and Valerie Miller Part III of a blog series detailing a February 2013 Research Expedition in Cuba organized by EDF Oceans’ Cuba, Science, and Shark teams and funded by the Waitt Foundation. A team of scientists from Cuba, Mexico and the U.S. along with EDF staff set sail to share knowledge, scientific [...]
EDF Oceans
Expedition Cuba Part 2: Scientists Partner with Fishermen to Explore Cuban Waters
10 years 8 months ago
By: Valerie Miller & Kendra Karr Part II of a blog series reporting on the February 2013 Research Expedition in Cuba organized by EDF Oceans’ Cuba, Science, and Shark teams and funded by the Waitt Foundation. A team of scientists from Cuba, Mexico and the U.S. along with EDF staff set sail on an exploratory [...]
EDF Oceans
Expedition Cuba: A Tri-National Journey to Share Science and Survey Sharks, Part 1
10 years 8 months ago
By: Kendra Karr & Valerie Miller Intro by Dan Whittle: With generous support from the Waitt Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has launched a new initiative to support collaborative field research with scientists from the University of Havana's Center for Marine Research. This initiative is enabling teams of Cuban, U.S. and Mexican scientists to [...]
EDF Oceans
Electronic Monitoring: A Roadmap to Efficient & Effective Fisheries Management
10 years 8 months ago
Successful fisheries management is dependent upon timely data collection and analysis. A robust monitoring program will provide data on catch, specify gear use and evaluate bycatch for fishery stakeholders and managers, which in turn, support and improve stock assessments and ensure catch limits are both optimized and sustainable in the long-term. Monitoring is a necessary [...]
EDF Oceans
ICCB: Capacity, Constituency & Conservation: An integrated approach to protect near-shore fisheries for people & biodiversity
10 years 9 months ago
EDF staff participated in panel earlier this week at the 26th International Congress for Conservation Biology, spotlighting our new partnership and initiative, Fish Forever, designed to improve fisheries management in developing tropic nations. Organized by the Society for Conservation Biology, the Congress brings together students and conservation professionals from around the globe to discuss conservation [...]
EDF Oceans
European Maritime Fisheries Fund: Why Investing in Allocation Matters
10 years 9 months ago
Given scarce resources in the EU and UK, it’s especially important that fishing privileges are allocated in a way that best serves national sustainability interests—and now is the time to invest. This month, the European Council approved proposals to reform the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the EU’s framework for fisheries management. The new policy calls [...]
Erin Priddle
Landmark UK court case: Fish quota can be redistributed to smaller vessels
10 years 9 months ago
A high court in the UK this week ruled that unused fishing quotas can be redistributed by the government from large scale vessels to smaller ones. Small scale inshore fishermen and fisheries minister Richard Benyon celebrated the decision as bringing added value to coastal communities in the UK. The judgment affirmed the Ministry’s authority to [...]
Britt Groosman
Time to end the sniping over snapper
10 years 9 months ago
The short seasons, decreasing bag limits and failing management of the recreational red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico has everyone that cares about the fishery upset. States are demanding changes from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), lawsuits have been filed, contentious proposals are before the Gulf Council and Congress has started to [...]
Jack Sterne
A Big Step Forward for Better Rigs To Reef Management
10 years 9 months ago
As I’ve written before, the Rigs to Reefs process of the federal and state agencies in the Gulf of Mexico is a good example of “finding ways that work”. This cooperative process enables the owners of oil and gas platforms to use those structures to create artificial reefs. In fact, this means the rigs continue serving as artificial reefs because they have already attracted fish, coral, and other marine life as the rigs produced oil or gas.
Jack Sterne
Mexican fisheries delegation visits West Coast; EDF-sponsored fact-finding trip illustrates benefits of collaboration in fishery management
10 years 9 months ago
Last week I had the pleasure of accompanying senior fisheries officials from four Mexican states to Southern California, where they met with fishermen, seafood processors and members of the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC). As they establish and reinforce their own fishery management systems and structures, this trip was a chance for Mexican officials to see firsthand a well-established system that has evolved for decades – and generally succeeds – through broad-based stakeholder participation and a commitment to transparency.
Pedro Zapata
"50 in 10" Collaborative Aims to Bring 50% of the World’s Catch Under Sustainable Management in 10 Years
10 years 10 months ago
On World Oceans Day we celebrated an ecosystem which is inextricably linked to our lives. Oceans cover about 70% of the planet and contain 99% of Earth’s living space. They are home to nearly half of all known species, generate most of the oxygen we breathe, help regulate the climate, and provide food for billions [...]
EDF Oceans
How Sustainable is your Supermarket’s Seafood Case?
10 years 10 months ago
Last week, Greenpeace USA released the seventh edition of their popular Carting Away the Oceans report, which ranks the sustainable seafood performance of the nation’s 20 largest supermarket chains. Industry leaders like Wegmans (a former EDF partner on salmon and shrimp sourcing), Whole Foods and Safeway once again scored in the top five, while Winn [...]
Tim Fitzgerald
Seafood Selector helps you have your hake (and eat it too)
10 years 10 months ago
Environmental Defense Fund recently released the latest version of its popular Seafood Selector, a tool to help make consumers aware of critical ocean conservation issues through the fish that they and their families eat. Today I want to take a moment to remember what life was like in 2001, when our first version came out as a small [...]
Tim Fitzgerald
EDF Releases New Blog for All Our Expert Voices: Collecting stories, ideas and arguments from all of our experts in one place
10 years 10 months ago
EDFish is where EDF’s ocean experts share their thoughts on ocean conservation issues. We advocate and innovate for a healthier ocean and provide a unique perspective on how to restore and maintain sustainable fisheries. However, we know you may have a broad interest in environmental issues. That’s why we wanted to share with you Environmental [...]
EDF Oceans
Climate Change is Changing Fisheries
10 years 10 months ago
Recently, the impacts of climate change on fisheries have been in the news. The emphasis has been on the inability of scientists to explain how climate change is affecting fisheries or to fix the problems it seems to be causing. These include shifting distribution and abundance patterns of commercially valuable fish stocks – shifts that [...]
Rod Fujita
Newsflash! Warming oceans=changes in fish populations and ecosystems
10 years 11 months ago
A number of scientific studies indicate that warming waters are affecting fish populations globally—and often in unpredictable ways. This finding is significant for fisheries management because as fish populations shift, whole ecosystems are changed. A recent study covering 40 years of data illuminates these changes in fish distributions and a Huffington Post article examines the [...]
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