Retraction of Flawed MPA Study Implicates Larger Problems in MPA Science
After months of public criticism and findings of a conflict of interest, a prominent scientific paper (Cabral et al. 2020, A global...
How Commercial Fisheries are Managed
Quickly comparing and understanding different fishery management approaches (and their outcomes) is a useful and important skill for...
Review of Fishing and Its Global Footprint
Thanks to Global Fishing Watch, a new partnership between Oceana, SkyTruth, and Google, scientists may be getting closer to figuring out...
A Closer Look at the Environmental Costs of Food
The relationship between food and environment is one of the most important conservation issues in the anthropocene. Currently,...
MPAs will suffer, along with the rest of the ocean, as the planet warms
A paper released June 2018 in Nature Climate Change mapped the effects of future emissions on marine protected areas (MPAs) around the...
Canada Reaches 5% Marine Conservation Milestone
In a news release Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announced that Canada hit its first major milestone to increase the protection of...
Ray Hilborn Study Disputes Previous Findings on Forage Fish
The paper "When does fishing forage specific affect their predators?" explores the impact of fishing forage species on their marine...