In July 2024, the Sea Around Us turns 25 years old.
During this quarter-century, the project has been dedicated to examining the impacts of fisheries on the marine ecosystems of the world. It has been and remains instrumental in ocean conservation.
Tag: Daniel Pauly
Belizean fishers want changes in policy and practice to revert declining catch trends
The Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares, with Belizean fishers. Photo by the Belize Fisheries Project.
Belizean fishers’ experience in the water confirms the declining trends in fishery catches – and, therefore, in fish populations – uncovered by the Belize Fisheries Project (BFP), of which the Sea Around Us is a member together with Comunidad y Biodiversidad (COBI), the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI) and MRAG Americas.
Making an inaccessible text available
In his quest to provide support to his Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory, the Sea Around Us PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, has written a short foreword to the 1974 chapter “The Tactics and Strategy of Growth in Fishes” published by Derek Iles in the book Sea Fisheries Research.
Navigating challenges in scientific publishing: A letter to young scientists
Rainer Froese. Photo by the Blue Marine Foundation, Facebook.
By Rainer Froese
I thought the background story of our recent publication ‘New developments in the analysis of catch time series as the basis for fish stock assessments: The CMSY++ method‘ may be of interest to young scientists.
Once they have laid their eggs, fish become ‘young’ again
Herring spawn. Photo by Moosealope, Flickr.
The physical relief that temperate fish like cod and Atlantic herring experience after they spawn for the first time allows them to breathe in more oxygen and develop a voracious appetite, all of which leads to a rapid increase in body weight.