MarineBio Resource Directory Home | What's New | Favorites | Top Rated | Submit Resource | Contact MarineBio   Here All  Search Directory » Top \ Marine Conservation Favorite Marine Life Resources indicated by  Sort By: Date Name Rating Favorite Total: 332  Displaying: 1 - 25  Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 > New England Fisheries Enforcement, June 2009 Study calls for smart compliance program that focuses enforcement and penalties on frequent offenders, while strengthening the basis of moral obligations to comply. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 52 visits Subsidies to U.S. Fisheries, February 2009 Study shows that fishing subsidies in the U.S. are larger and more harmful than previously thought. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 273 visits Atlantic Sharks at Risk, June 2008 Results of study show critical need for management action to prevent shark population depletion. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 45 visits Shark Declines in the Mediterranean Sea, April 2008 Study suggests the Mediterranean Sea may be losing large predatory sharks. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 47 visits Global Status of Oceanic Pelagic Sharks and Rays, April 2008 Over three quarters of large open ocean shark and ray species have a heightened risk of extinction. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 37 visits Effects of Losing Top Predators, April 2008 Loss of top marine predators could have greater impacts than previously understood. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 53 visits Global Assessment of Aquaculture Impacts on Wild Salmon, February 2008 A new study finds a widespread negative impact of aquaculture farms on wild salmon survival. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 56 visits Aquaculture Impacts on Wild Salmon, December 2007 A new study shows that parasites from fish farms may drive some wild salmon populations towards local extinction. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 68 visits Setting Annual Catch Limits for U.S. Fisheries, September 2007 A new approach to setting catch limits may help end overfishing in the United States. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 42 visits Have Gray Whales Recovered from Whaling? August 2007 New study suggests historic Pacific gray whale populations were three to five times larger than previously believed. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 34 visits Strengthing European Fisheries Management: Options for Enforcing the Shark Finning Ban, May 2007 Restrictions designed to accommodate a variety of processing practices hamper effective regulation of shark finning. This can be resolved by requiring fishers to land sharks with fins still attached. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 32 visits Managing Bull Kelp Forests, April 2007 Careful management of this useful but fragile resource is recommended to ensure benefits to humans and wildlife. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 40 visits Are Circle Hooks Effective? February 2007 Circle hooks have reduced turtle deaths in some trials, but are not universally successful at reducing the accidental catch of sea turtles. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 47 visits Strengthening Rebuilding Plans: Three Recommendations for Action, September 2006 Better design and implementation of rebuilding plans may help restore depleted fisheries. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 46 visits Rebuilding U.S. Fisheries, August 2006 Ten years after the legislative mandate to rebuild fisheries, most fish stocks that should be rebuilt by now are still in poor shape. - Lenfest Ocean Program Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 46 visits Lenfest Ocean Program The Lenfest Ocean Program supports marine research that will be useful in formulating solutions to ocean problems. Lenfest Ocean Program staff members consult with scientists, advocates and decision makers to identify policy-relevant research questions. A critical factor in developing the Program's research projects is the extent to which the research will be directly relevant to marine policy decisions. The Program focuses its work on fisheries issues because fishing arguably has the... [More] Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/13  | 83 visits Seafood Watch Select a Seafood Watch Pocket Guide... A program of Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources. We recommend which seafood to buy or avoid, helping consumers to become advocates for environmentally friendly seafood. We're also partners of the Seafood Choices Alliance where, along with other seafood awareness campaigns, we provide seafood purveyors with recommendations on seafood choices. Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/02  | 698 visits The Starving Ocean HOW MUCH DAMAGE HAS HUMAN FISHING DONE TO THE OCEAN? We thought we could fish forever, because the sea was a limitless protein mine. But dawning now is a realization that we were wrong about that. But how naive were we? And what price will be paid? Ocean life is dying back in unexpected ways: although there are fewer fish and other sea animals, more of them are starving, while waves of 'sickness' spread as primitive microbes gain the upper hand. Symptoms include spreading 'dead zones,' harmful a... [More] Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/02  | 71 visits Project Seahorse Project Seahorse is an interdisciplinary and international organization committed to conservation and sustainable use of the world’s coastal marine ecosystems. We engage in connected research and management at scales ranging from community initiatives to international accords. Collaborating with stakeholders and partners, seahorses are our focus for finding marine conservation solutions. The team includes about 40 professional members plus local support staff working in Australi... [More] Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/10/02  | 150 visits Alaska Marine Conservation Council Founded in 1994, the Alaska Marine Conservation Council (AMCC) is a community-based organization dedicated to protecting the long-term health of Alaska's oceans and sustaining the working waterfronts of our coastal communities. Our members include fishermen, subsistence harvesters, marine scientists, small business owners, conservationists, families and others who care about Alaska’s oceans. Our way of life, livelihoods and economies depend on healthy marine ecosystems. [More] Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/09/13  | 110 visits Faces of Chelonia | A Global Perspective of Sea Turtle Conservation Across the globe all seven species of sea turtles are in danger of extinction. The Face of Chelonia project aims to educate the public about this plight and advocate initiatives that will act to reduce stress on sea turtle populations while encouraging people to participate in conservation. Collaborating with international partners the Faces of Chelonia project will travel to locations throughout the world to materialize a global perspective of sea turtle conservation and create a network of peo... [More] Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/09/03  | 72 visits Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All And Fast National Geographic News August 20, 2009 Though ocean-borne plastic trash has a reputation as an indestructible, immortal environmental villain, scientists announced yesterday that some plastics actually decompose rapidly in the ocean. And, the researchers say, that's not a good thing. The team's new study is the first to show that degrading plastics are leaching potentially toxic chemicals such as bisphenol A into the seas, possibly threatening ocean animals, and us..... [More] Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/08/25  | 92 visits Turtles and Whales (WWF) The project will build on earlier conservation work to protect marine turtles and humpback whales in Colombia. It will continue to create new protected areas and reduce key threats, but will also address new and additional pressures such as infrastructure proposals and problems associated with bycatch. Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/08/24  | 57 visits West African Marine Ecoregion protected areas (WWF) Supporting and creating marine protected areas Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are powerful biodiversity management tools. They provide essential safe havens for marine species and their habitats, and function as insurance against the unexpected. From an economic perspective, MPAs have been shown to maintain vital fisheries resources and to attract valuable tourism. Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/08/24  | 59 visits World's largest Marine Protected Area one step closer (WWF) What may become the world's largest marine protected area came a step closer today following the announcement by Australia’s environment minister Peter Garrett that the Coral Sea would become a Conservation Zone. The area, which is found east of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Marine park and amounts to almost a million square kilometers, is home to significant seabirds and migratory marine species, and has remained relatively undisturbed by direct human impact. Full Details  | Visit  | Review  | Rate (0)  | 2009/08/24  | 57 visits Total: 332  Displaying: 1 - 25  Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 >

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