Silverside puffer fish (photo: FishBase)
The recent expansion of the Suez Canal in August 2015 doubled its shipping capacity, yet many scientists are worried that an increased flood of invasive species will enter the Mediterranean along with the increased marine traffic.
A recent New York Times op-ed, written by Rachael Bishop, included two Sea Around Us collaborators who study the devastating effects of invasive fish in Mediterranean waters. Continue reading
The Sea Around Us provides interactive graphs that display a wide variety of catch information.
Users are able to view, analyze and download data and references across multiple regions, including Exclusive Economic Zones, Regional Fisheries Management Operations, Fishing Country, FAO areas and Large Marine Ecosystems.
Users can also view trends across time — from 1950-2010 — within each area, as they relate to taxon, commercial group, and functional group, among many others.
All allocated catch data are available for download via CSV file. For further information on how to use the graphs, click here.
And to sign up for our email News Alert for more Sea Around Us information, click here!
Want to see where countries fish around the world? And where they fished globally through time — from 1950-2010?
Watch the above tutorial on how to use our interactive Mapping Tool.
And to use the Mapping Tool — click the link here.
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles at FreeDigitalPhotos.net
On Janurary 21st the Sea Around Us published in the journal Nature Communications the results of over a decade of research.
Data were collected from over 200 countries and territories to reconstruct the amount of fish that is being pulled out of our oceans.
After the research was published, media from around the world reported on the story. Here is just a sampling of those stories:
The Guardian – Overfishing causing global catches to fall three times faster than estimated
The Washington Post – Why we’ve been hugely underestimating the overfishing of the oceans
BBC – Global fishing catch significantly under-reported, says study
Nature News – Independent study tallies ‘true catch’ of global fishing
Le Monde (France) – La surpêche et le déclin des ressources ont été largement sous-estimés
El Pais (Spain) – La humanidad pesca 32 millones de toneladas de peces a escondidas
O Globo (Brazil) – Peso do pescado global é subestimado, diz pesquisa
The trailer for a new documentary about Danial Pauly and the Sea Around Us has just been released.
Produced by the Living Oceans Foundation, the documentary — “The Missing Fish” — traces Pauly’s mission to understand and study global fish catch.
Travelling to different areas of the world, from Senegal to Newfoundland to Nicaragua, Pauly and a team of researches piece together data that are not included by countries in their official reports.
The documentary will be released by summer — check out the trailer here!