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B.C.’s marine tech sector is riding a wave of innovation

• Dee Hon, BC Business • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Shipping & Ports

But our growing ocean economy faces stiff competition from overseas.

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Evaluation of nutrient bioextraction by seaweed and shellfish aquaculture in Korea

• Park, J.S. et al, World Aquaculture Society • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Although Korea is third in seaweed production and second in shellfish production globally, this is the first study evaluating ecosystem services of seaweed and shellfish aquaculture in Korea.

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Impact Investing in a Sustainable Ocean and Global Fisheries

• Our Shared Seas • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The purpose of this essay is to better understand the current state and future of sustainable investing in the ocean and fisheries.

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The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Help?

• Eric Klinenberg, The New Yorker • Fisheries & Aquaculture

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

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Blue Carbon: A New Frontier for Ocean Conservation?

• Blue Marine Foundation • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.

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The State of the World's Mangroves

• Global Mangrove Alliance • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The State of the World’s Mangroves provides the very latest information on what we know about mangroves and what’s being done to support these magnificent habitats.

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Blue ticked off: the controversy over the MSC fish ‘ecolabel’

• Karen McVeigh, The Guardian • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The MSC’s coveted blue tick is the world’s biggest, and some say best, fishery ecolabel. So why is it in the headlines – and does it really do what it says on the tin?

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Direct and ancillary benefits of ecosystem based fisheries management in forage fish fisheries

• Sanchirico, J.N. & Essington, T.E., Ecological Applications • Fisheries & Aquaculture

In this research, we investigate the potential economic and ecological gains from adopting ecosystem-based approaches for the sardine and anchovy fisheries off of the coast of California.

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Micronutrient supply from global marine fisheries under climate change and overfishing

• Maire, E. et al., Current Biology • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Global marine fisheries yields are threatened by climate change and overfishing, yet understanding of how these stressors affect the nutrients available from fisheries is lacking.

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Predicted Shifts in the Distributions of Atlantic Reef-Building Corals in the Face of Climate Change

• Principe, S.C. et al., Frontiers • Fisheries & Aquaculture

With climate change, many coral species are experiencing shifts in their distributions, threatening the preservation of coral reefs.

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Assessing the spatial burden of harmful fisheries subsidies

• Skerritt, D.J. & Sumaila, UR., Fisheries Economics Research Unit / Oceana • Fisheries & Aquaculture

For years we have known that governments subsidize fishing by their own fleets in the waters of other nations. But we did not know exactly where those dollars were destined, making it hard to determine a cumulative footprint for foreign subsidy spending in coastal state waters.

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Habitat value of bivalve shellfish and seaweed aquaculture for fish and invertebrates: Pathways, synthesis and next steps

• Theuerkauf, SJ et al., Reviews in Aquaculture • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Aquaculture can have negative environmental impacts, adding to the suite of anthropogenic stressors that challenge coastal ecosystems. However, a growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the commercial cultivation of bivalve shellfish and seaweed can deliver valuable ecosystem goods and services, including provision of new habitats for fish and mobile invertebrate species.

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Becoming #GenerationRestoration: Ecosystem Restoration for People, Nature and Climate

• Dickson, B. et al., UNEP • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture • Plastics & Pollution • Shipping & Ports • Tourism

To launch the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, UNEP has released this synthesis report as a call to action for anyone and everyone to join the #GenerationRestoration movement to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide.

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Oceana Finds Hundreds of Vessels Vanishing Along Argentina’s Waters

• Oceana • Fisheries & Aquaculture

An Oceana analysis found hundreds of foreign fishing vessels, primarily Chinese, pillaging the waters off Argentina and disappearing from public tracking systems. These distant-water fleets mainly fish for shortfin squid, which are vital to Argentina’s economy and the diet of numerous commercial and recreational species, such as tuna and swordfish.

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Positive Social-Ecological Feedbacks in Community-Based Conservation

• Quintana, A.C.E. et al., Frontiers in Marine Science • Fisheries & Aquaculture

In this paper, we theoretically and empirically explore a model of short-term area-based conservation that prioritizes adaptive co-management: temporary areas closed to fishing, designed by the fishers they affect, approved by the government, and adapted every 5 years.

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Discussing the global importance of the aquaculture industry

• Innovation News Network • Fisheries & Aquaculture

The Innovation Platform’s Lorna Malkin spoke to Dr Adam Hughes, Marine Ecologist and Senior Lecturer at the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), about how aquaculture is evolving and the industry’s potential to contribute positively to the environment.

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Innovations in aquaculture helping to transform food industry

• Innovation News Network • Fisheries & Aquaculture

By providing a platform for new innovations in aquaculture, the inaugural Global Aquaculture Challenge is helping to transform the food industry’s fastest growing segment.

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The role of aquatic foods in sustainable healthy diets

• Ahern, M. et al., UN Nutrition • Fisheries & Aquaculture

This discussion paper aims to build consensus on the role of aquatic foods in sustainable healthy diets, presenting the breadth of evidence available to inform and steer policy, investments and research to make full use of the vast potential of aquatic foods in delivering sustainable healthy diets and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Information Sharing Is Key to Ending Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing

• The Pew Charitable Trusts • Fisheries & Aquaculture

New study uses modelling to show benefits occur even when sharing is not reciprocated.

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“How do we manage fisheries in the midst of climate change?” Q&A with EDF’s Eric Schwaab

• Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay • Energy Solutions • Fisheries & Aquaculture

Schwaab spoke about how to increase the resilience of fisheries to climate change; U.S. oceans policy, including what the country has gotten right and wrong; and more in a recent interview with Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler.

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