Fisheries
Fisheries in Focus: Where does fishing effort go when an MPA is established?
Sustainable Fisheries UW examines a recent paper in PNAS that claims fishing effort is not displaced by marine protected areas.
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Fisheries in Focus: Science shows sustainable seafood protects rainforests and biodiversity
A recent paper shows how threatened or endangered animals on land and in the sea would be hurt if livestock protein replaced wild-caught fish protein.
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Fisheries in Focus: Recent paper in Science confirms basic fisheries science, conjures causality
Sustainable Fisheries-UW: Better fisheries management requires enforcement of already-in-place limits, not new regulations that also go unenforced.
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Fisheries in Focus: How the mystery of the great eastern Bering Sea snow crab die-off was solved
A research team has uncovered the reason why billions of snow crabs died in the eastern Bering Sea in 2021, closing the fishery for the first time.
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Fisheries in Focus: What are fish aggregating devices and why is there debate about banning them?
Use of fish aggregating devices increases fishing efficiency but can potentially increase bycatch and ocean pollution if FADs are lost or abandoned.
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Fisheries in Focus: Busting misconceptions about bottom trawling and its environmental impacts
Fisheries researchers examine all environmental impacts of bottom-trawling and compare the fishing method to other forms of food production.
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Las Pesquerías en Foco: ¿Qué es el Índice de Gestión de Pesquerías y qué dice sobre las pesquerías de EE. UU.?
Para evaluar correctamente un sistema de gestión pesquera, necesitamos una medida del régimen de gestión en su conjunto: Aquí llega el Índice de Gestión Pesquera (FMI).
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Fisheries in Focus: What is the Fisheries Management Index and what does it say about U.S. fisheries?
To properly evaluate a fishery management system, we need a measure of the management regime as a whole: Enter the Fisheries Management Index (FMI).
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Fisheries in Focus: Marine protected areas don’t help tuna population, new paper shows
Using stock assessment and fishing data, researchers find that the Phoenix Islands Protected Area did not meaningfully increase the tuna population.
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Fisheries in Focus: Tunas and billfishes are improving on the IUCN Red List – and it’s thanks to effective fisheries management
Sustainable Fisheries UW offers a rundown of the IUCN Red List and how tunas and billfishes benefit from strong fisheries management.