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How European nations commercialise shark products

EU countries play a major role in the international trade of shark meat. Even if they only produced about 12% of shark meat worldwide in 2005, they were responsible for 56% of worldwide shark meat imports and 32% of worldwide exports. In 2006, the EU imported more than 40,000 tons of shark meat.

How Long Can the Ocean Slow Global Warming?

Nov. 29, 2006 - How much excess carbon dioxide can the ocean hold and how will it affect marine life?

How the National Marine Sanctuaries Act Diverged from the Wilderness Act Model and Lost Its Way in the Land of Multiple Use

W.J. Chandler and H. Gillelan (2007), Watson, Alan; Sproull, Janet; Dean, Liese, comps. Science and stewardship to protect and sustain wilderness values: Eighth World Wilderness Congress symposium; Sept. 30-Oct. 6, 2005; Anchorage, AK. Proceedings RMRS-P-49.

How We Fish Matters

Susanna D. Fuller, Candace Picco, Jennifer Ford, Chih-Fan Tsao, Lance E. Morgan, Dorthea Hangaard, Ratana Chuenpagdee (2008)

Hungry Oceans

According to conventional wisdom, small, fast-growing fish are impossible to overfish because their populations are so large and grow so quickly. Yet we are now seeing disquieting signs that conventional wisdom is wrong.

Most significantly, scientists are reporting ocean predators emaciated from lack of food, vulnerable to disease and without enough energy to reproduce. Scrawny predators, dolphins, striped bass, and even whales have turned up along coastlines around the world. Recreat... [More]

Hungry Oceans: What Happens When the Prey is Gone?

According to conventional wisdom, small, fast-growing fish are impossible to overfish because their populations are so large and grow so quickly. Yet we are now seeing disquieting signs that conventional wisdom is wrong. Most significantly, scientists are reporting ocean predators emaciated from lack of food, vulnerable to disease and without enough energy to reproduce.

Hunted for fins

Sharks are vulnerable species. In general, they grow slowly, mature late and produce few young over a long lifetime. Their populations typically increase at extremely low rates, leaving them exceptionally vulnerable to overexploitation and slow to recover from depletion. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, about one-third of European shark and ray populations assessed are considered “threatened.”

The European Union includes some of the most important shar... [More]

Identifying priority conservation areas from Baja California to the Bering Sea

Morgan, L.E., P. Etnoyer, T. Wilkinson, H. Herrmann, C.-F. Tsao, and S. Maxwell (2004), In: Munro, Neil, W.P., Tom B. Herman, Karen Beazley, Philip Dearden, editors. Making ecosystem-based management work. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas,Victoria, BC, May, 2003.

Improving protected area networks (WWF)

WWF is working for a global network of well-managed, representative protected areas - a key aspect of achieving our goal to save biodiversity.

With our partners, we are at the forefront of all aspects of protected area work - from planning, establishing, and managing to securing sustainable financing, influencing policy, and ensuring that such areas bring benefits to people.

In and Out of Harm's Way

Aug. 25, 2005 - Shipping lane changes proposed to prevent collisions with whales

Increasing protection: the high seas (WWF)

Gap in the global protected seas system

WWF's Global Marine Programme has created a High Seas Initiative to increase international attention for the conservation of these vast expanses of ocean, which include both surface and deep-sea habitats. The initiative is also working to immediately protect high seas resources, many of which are under serious stress due to unregulated human activities.

Institute for Ocean Conservation Science

IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.

The IPCC is a scientific body. It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic informa... [More]

Italian driftnets: illegal fishing continues

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the use of driftnets in Italy, investigates the causes of the persistence of this illegal gear, analyses the possible failures in management and proposes recommendations, not only for the complete elimination of this fishing gear, but also as a contribution to the development of future management measures to be adopted within the Community fisheries policy framework.

Jellyburgers and Fries

by Dr. Carl Safina and Dr. Marah Hardt, Edible East End, Fall 2008

Keep Our Beaches Clean

Beach vacations are an annual summer event for many families. But beachgoers at polluted beaches around the country may bring back an unwanted souvenir from their trip: ear infections, stomach flu, skin rashes, and other illnesses that are caused by polluted beachwater. To help keep our beaches clean, NRDC supports improved beachwater testing to detect the pathogens that can cause health problems in swimmers. Bills now pending in Congress would provide funding for much-needed beach cleanup effor... [More]

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]

Lessons from Nature, Models, and the Past

Jan. 9, 2008 - Other lines of evidence inform the debate on ocean iron fertilization

Lighthouse Foundation

The Foundation's purpose is to promote science and research, teaching, culture, and the principles of environmentalism and international development in relation to the world's seas and oceans.

Living Oceans Society

Living Oceans Society is Canada’s largest organization focusing exclusively on marine conservation issues. We are based in Sointula, a small fishing village on the Central Coast of British Columbia.

Living in a coastal community, we are reminded each day that it’s not just about the fish—it’s about the fish and the people. Living Oceans Society believes that people are part of the environment and that by protecting the B.C. coastal ecosystem, we can build susta... [More]

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

Manatees

Once mistaken for mermaids by lonely sailors, slow-moving manatees roam Florida's coastal waterways. So do ships and fast-moving recreational boats, which injure and kill dozens of these endangered animals each year. In fact, most manatees in Florida bear scars or deformities from being run over by boats and cut by boat propellers.

Maps reveal secret life of marine turtles in urgent need of protection (WWF)

A series of conservation maps produced by WWF reveal for the first time the secret life of endangered turtles in the world's most diverse marine region - the Coral Triangle.

The maps are the first to bring together the different life cycle movements, migration routes, foraging grounds, and nesting sites of green, hawksbill and leatherback turtles.

The maps were produced with the help of satellite tracking, and allow the identification and targeting of areas in urgent need o... [More]

Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI)

Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) began in 1996 with a new approach: to encourage scientists who want to safeguard the oceans’ web of life. Since then, MCBI has become one of the world’s most influential marine conservation organizations. Our mission:

Advance the science of marine conservation biology and secure protection for ocean ecosystems

Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity

Norse, E.A. & L.B. Crowder, eds. (2005), Island Press

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