Sea Around Us data users interested in learning how to perform a catch reconstruction update now have access to a suite of free video tutorials.
The step-by-step guides, available in English with carefully curated subtitles in Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, and Spanish (with more languages on the way), are presented in an easy-to-understand animated video format led by a researcher named Ola.
Bottom trawling in the North Sea . Image by Ifremer.
The 4 billion tonnes of marine organisms that global fisheries extracted from the ocean between 1960 and 2018 resulted in the depletion of over 560 million tonnes of essential nutrients vital to ecosystem health, new research has found.
Every year, on November 21st, World Fisheries Day is observed.
Launched in 1997 at a World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers meeting, which led to the creation of the World Fisheries Forum, this day is meant to bring awareness to the urgent need for sustainable fishing practices and measures.
Participants of the EcoScope general meeting at the Balearic Oceanographic Centre of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography in Palma de Mallorca. Photo by EcoScope.
The Sea Around Us project manager, Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares, and Advisory Board vice-chair, Athanasios Tsikliras, participated in the 2024 general assembly of the project Ecocentric Management for Sustainable Fisheries and Healthy Marine Ecosystems (EcoScope).