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Traditional aquaculture paired with modern science could make for environmentally friendly, sustainable fishing. 

By Ruth Driscoll-Lovejoy and Amy Folkerts Ocean farmers are making a splash in the sustainable seafood market — and they don’t need state-of-the-art facilities to do it.  Thimble Island Ocean Farm in Connecticut is a commercial seaweed and shellfish farm and serves as an innovation hub for GreenWave, a nonprofit replicating and scaling regenerative aquaculture.

By Lucy Vogt, EDF Seafood Policy Intern Last month, Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) welcomed environmental businesses, leaders, and shakers — and one brand-new intern. CHOW investigated the intersection between the ocean and the climate by facilitating conversations about ocean opportunities. Even though the ocean covers more than 70% of the earth, produces 50% of …

EDF’s delegation to the climate talks taking place in Bonn, Germany from June 5 to June 15, 2023 give us some insights into the issues they're following.

Environmental Defense Fund led a participatory study to assess how vulnerable recreational fisheries in the Caribbean will be to climate change.

Smartphone-based catch reporting and the SmartPass camera system have been implemented to generate reliable estimates of total effort and total catch in Lampung’s blue swimming crab fishery.

Around the world, 3 billion people depend on fish as a vital source of nutrition. As the climate changes and the global population grows, artisanal fishers are on the frontlines in the fight to address food insecurity and protect marine ecosystems for generations to come.

By Ming Sun, Stony Brook University, and Adityo Setiawan, Environmental Defense Fund From warming ocean waters to increased acidification and rising sea levels, it’s no wonder that fish are on the move to find suitable habitat! Climate change is creating dramatic shifts in species’ distributions and affecting their productivity. Fisheries managers who try to ensure …

EDF has been working with partners to make our fisheries more climate resilient. This work includes identifying solutions and developing tools so that fishery managers and fishermen can adapt to changing oceans.

By Nathan Willse, Stony Brook University, and Harlisa Harlisa, Environmental Defense Fund Crustacean fisheries offer enormous opportunities as high-value and potentially resilient alternatives to over-exploited finfish stocks. However, rising global demand for crustacean products and rapid environmental change call for an increased focus on the sustainable management of crustacean stocks. While landings, the catch received …

As global populations grow and fish populations shift or even shrink, one thing is clear: offshore aquaculture in the United States is a matter of when not if. We talked to some experts to better understand what we know, what we need to know, and where we go from here.

EDF and partners convened an international task force of crustacean fishery scientists and managers from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the United States in the summer of 2020: the Crustacean Task Force.

By Vrinda Suresh, Julia Mason and Doug Rader  During the last two weeks of August 2022, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference, or IGC5, to develop a new treaty to protect biodiversity in offshore waters, called the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, or …

Sustainable seafood grown in United States federal waters is one step closer to being on the menu today as Congress considers a new bipartisan measure — the Science-based Equitable Aquaculture Food Act, or SEAfood Act.

EDF statement by Sepp Haukebo, Senior Manager, Global Fisheries Initiative

Local conservationists in The Bahamas scored a rare victory over mining interests. But the proposal to mine limestone in an ecologically valuable island is not dead yet. 

Local conservationists in The Bahamas scored a rare victory over mining interests. But the proposal to mine limestone in an ecologically valuable island is not dead yet.

Study finds that spills of ammonia as a shipping fuel could negatively impact certain habitats and species more than others, and that the likelihood and gravity of such spills are highly dependent on ship type, hole size, temperature or even time of the day. 

More studies and data are needed to shape the regulatory standards for farming seafood offshore in United States federal waters, according to a new report published in the scientific journal Marine Policy. 

Three new reports examine the potential of blue carbon pathways to act as natural climate solutions. By Kristin Kleisner, Monica Moritsch and Jamie Collins To address the climate crisis we need to explore every avenue possible, investigate innovative solutions, and even look to the oceans for answers. The oceans already serve the planet as a …

A new video from EDF tells the story of the small-scale fishing communities in the Los Ríos region of southern Chile, who depend on an important but often overlooked fish species known as Pacific sierra.

Marine mammals like whales, dolphins and seals are some of the most charismatic and beloved creatures living in the sea. The Marine Mammal Protection Act, which turns 50 this month, is the reason many of them are still around.

The House Natural Resources Committee today, with support from policymakers from coast to coast, passed H.R.4690, the Sustaining America’s Fisheries for the Future Act. H.R. 4690 amends and reauthorizes the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), which governs fishing in federal waters.

EDF’s Climate-Resilient Fisheries Toolkit brings together the best available knowledge, research and experiences from around the world to serve you in your efforts to build a brighter future for the marine environment and coastal communities.