Ambassador to West Africa
5/21/13 •
by Dyhia Belhabib “Our driftnets don’t produce discards.” “We don’t have illegal fishing – it’s illegal.” “Your methods are correct, but your results don’t make sense.” “Don’t tell them we fish in their waters, they will deny us access.” These were some of the amazing comments I heard during my short visit to seven West [...]
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Climate change has impacted global fisheries for decades
5/15/13 •
A new paper from the Sea Around Us Project published in the journal Nature reveals that warmer ocean temperatures are driving marine species towards cooler, deeper waters, and this in turn, has affected global fisheries catches. William Cheung, Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly used temperature preferences of fish and other marine species as a sort [...]
Chinese foreign fisheries catch 12 times more than reported
4/03/13 •
Chinese fishing boats catch about US$11.5 billion worth of fish from beyond their country’s own waters each year – and most of it goes unreported – this is according to a new paper led by the Sea Around Us Project, published in the journal Fish and Fisheries. The study estimates that China’s catch in foreign [...]
EU Common Fisheries Policy reform, from the inside
3/15/13 •
by Frédéric Le Manach In 2009, the European Commission initiated the third reform of its Common Fisheries Policy. Although the basic principles of this new framework – which will stay in place for the next 10 years – were adopted in early February by the Parliament, the Commission is still regularly hearing experts on various [...]
On using catches to predict abundance
2/20/13 •
Factions among the fisheries community disagree on whether catch data – the amount of fish drawn from the sea – can be used to assess the health of fish stocks. In a comment piece published in Nature today, the Sea Around Us Project’s Principal Investigator Daniel Pauly shares his views, emphasizing that catch data are [...]
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