Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy

World Bank releases investment guide for developing sustainable aquaculture

• Responsible Seafood Advocate • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The World Bank has released The Global Aquabusiness Investment Guide, a framework to navigate the world’s fastest-growing food sector. 

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How AI Anchors The Future Of Fishing & Charts The Course To Sustainability

• Neil Sahota, Forbes • Fisheries & Aquaculture

In the vast, blue expanse of our planet's oceans, a revolution is quietly unfolding, poised to redefine the ancient practice of fishing for the modern era.

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Global farmed fish production overtakes wild catch for first time

• Susannah Savage, Financial Times • Fisheries & Aquaculture

UN agency says aquaculture boom will boost food security but critics say it harms fragile marine ecosystems.

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Can alternative proteins protect the ocean from overfishing?

• Naomi Clark-Shen & Kathlyn Tan, Eco-Business • Fisheries & Aquaculture

As the sea is emptied of life to feed a growing human population, innovation in protein sources holds promise in diverting seafood production away from the ocean.
 

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Kelp is on the way

• Eugene Klerk, Economist Impact • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Harnessing seaweed’s potential can generate benefits across a wide range of the UN’s SDGs as well as generate returns for businesses and investors - writes Eugene Klerk, head of ESG research at Standard Chartered

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Ocean technology hub AltaSea blooms on San Pedro waterfront

• Roger Vincent, Yahoo Tech • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Shipping & Ports

A moon shot to make Southern California an international leader in the "blue economy" is taking shape in San Pedro as a $30-million renovation of three historic waterfront warehouses nears completion.

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Hatch Blue secures $10 million to invest in next round of startups

• The Fish Site • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Sustainable aquaculture investor Hatch Blue has announced that it has now secured $10 million for its second accelerator investment vehicle.

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Beyond the Blue Horizon

• Rachel Lim, Impact Entrepreneur • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports

How technologies can play a critical role in protecting and restoring marine health.

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Why VCs should be diving into the blue bioeconomy

• Sadia Nowshin, Sifted • Fisheries & Aquaculture

VCs are all over climate tech — but there’s untapped potential hiding in the oceans.

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How to scale the seaweed industry sustainably

• World Ocean Summit & Expo, Economist Impact • Fisheries & Aquaculture

This session at the 11th annual World Ocean Summit explored how to create a sustainable pathway for scaling the seaweed industry to realise these diverse benefits.

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Ocean issues show why multilateral cooperation still matters: WEF president

• Audrey Tan, The Straits Times • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The past decades have not been great for the oceans, we have continued to pollute and expose the oceans to environmental risks. Now is the time to agree on preserving and investing in the oceans.

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Food glorious blue foods

• Chris Gorell Barnes, Economist Impact • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The ocean is a critical player as both a source of environmentally sustainable and regenerative proteins and as an integral solution to mitigating the effects of the climate crisis. 

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How Marine Conservation Startups Are Saving Our Oceans

• Dominque Roberts, TechRound • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Coral reefs play a vital role in sustaining ocean life, supporting fishing industries, and generating billions of pounds in revenue each year.

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Why protecting the ocean floor matters for climate change

• William Austin, World Economic Forum • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Human activities, such as deepsea mining and bottom-trawling fishing practices, pose a threat to the ocean floor.

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Ocean corporate pilot underway

• Science Based Targets Network • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Over the next few months, this new initiative will be piloting draft guidance for the first science-based targets covering seafood value chains.

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EU Announces $3.71 Billion Investment in Ocean Sustainability

• Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Eco Watch • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The announcement was made at the Our Ocean Conference in Greece and is the largest pledge by the EU since the conference began a decade ago

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We must invest in our Ocean to preserve nature and secure the wellbeing of coastal communities

• ORRAA • Fisheries & Aquaculture

We need to rebuild ocean ecosystems and marine biodiversity if we are to ensure the wellbeing of the billions of people who live along the coast.

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Conservation tech firm, Bloomberg Ocean Initiative launch tool to monitor marine biodiversity protection

• Giada Ferraglioni, Carbon Pulse • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Access to free, reliable, and real-time data is critical to ensuring effective marine conservation, so the Bloomberg Ocean Initiative has launched a new tool to help with just that.

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Biden-Harris Administration invests $2.7 million to improve ocean observations with new robotic floats

• Alison Gillespie, NOAA • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The Argo array is made up of a fleet of robotic instruments that measure temperature and salinity in the global ocean

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From reserves to revenue: How marine protected areas can drive economic growth

• Mark John Costello, World Economic Forum • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Marine protected areas provide benefits beyond fisheries, creating jobs and boosting local economies.

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