Marine protected areas don’t help tuna, new paper shows
According to Sustainable Fisheries, A new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science has found that Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands...
FLAT OUT FACTS from IMPAC5, Post 2: Northern Shelf Bioregion
(IMPAC5) The 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress was held in Vancouver, BC between February 5th and 9th, 2023. Now that...
FLAT OUT FACTS from IMPAC5, Post 1: Marine Conservation Targets and Status
IMPAC5 (the 5th International Marine Protected Areas Congress) was held in Vancouver, BC between February 5th and 9th, 2023. Now that...
New Government Marine Plan to Have Major Impacts on BC Fisheries
NEWS PROVIDED BY British Columbia Seafood Alliance Feb 06, 2023, 12:00 ET VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 6, 2023 /CNW/ - The British Columbia...
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...