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Saving Wild Salmon, in Hopes of Saving the Orca | NYT
Just as Jane Goodall speaks for chimps, Ms. Morton said, she wants to tell the world about the troubles afflicting the orcas, not as a crusader, but as “a woman cleaning house.”
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Historic Decision Ends Fishing Quota Dispute | Newport News-Times
The Pacific Fishery Management Council didn't reach a decision until the eleventh hour pertaining to the controversial adoption of fishing quotas for the West Coast commercial groundfish trawl fisheries.
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Google Earth under the Ocean | Guardian
Web users will be able to "virtually" visit the world's protected underwater landscapes with a new Google Earth tool being launched today.
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Upcoming Geo-Engineering Ocean Fertilization Experiment
Two very different takes on a geo-engineering experiment in the Great Southern Ocean.
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One Coast, One Future | Joint Ocean Commission
The unique qualities of each community and ecosystem and the importance of local knowledge, priorities, and values in policy making require that each place determine its own path forward.
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Using Chaos Theory to Revitalize Fisheries | SciAm
George Sugihara sees fisheries as a complex, chaotic system, akin to financial networks.
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Daniel Pauly: Large-Scale and Small-Scale Fisheries | FP
By many key metrics, small-scale fisheries serve the public interest better than large scale.
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Daniel Pauly: Toward a Conservation Ethics for the Sea
I believe that we will get out of the biodiversity crisis only if we embed the fauna and flora around us into a mythology, a shared ethics of the sea, one that could be shared among all people on Earth.
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U.S. Ocean Ecosystems and the Public Trust | Science
Inherent to the [public trust] doctrine is the idea of intergenerational equity; trustees must manage trust assets so that needs of current beneficiaries are met without sacrificing needs of future beneficiaries.
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Finding Space for All in Our Crowded Seas | WaPo
A handful of states -- including Massachusetts, California and Rhode Island -- have begun essentially zoning the ocean, drawing up rules and procedures to determine which activities can take place and where.
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Christopher Costello and Steven Gaines: Catch Share Fisheries | Resouces for the Future
The appropriateness of catch share design features hinges on the ultimate goals sought by the communities they are meant to serve.
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Jane Lubchenco Interview | e360
Consolidation, where a few people would buy up all the shares, is one of the potential problems. You can structure the rules of fisheries to limit that happening.
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A cautionary tale about ITQ fisheries | Ecotrust Canada
Setting a scientifically defensible TAC (Total Allowable Catch) and establishing an inclusive and transparent co-management process are by far the most important aspects of fisheries conservation. No fishery, ITQ or otherwise, will be sustainable in the long run without these two key measures.
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Boris Worm and Ray Hilborn: Rebuilding Global Fisheries | Science
Finding the best management tools may depend on the local context. Most often, it appears that a combination of traditional approaches (catch quotas, community management) coupled with strategically placed fishing closures, more selective fishing gear, ocean zoning, and economic incentives holds much promise for restoring marine fisheries and ecosystems.
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Macinko and Whitmore: Fisheries Sectors
The conservation benefits of sectors are not guaranteed; instead, they rest on the ability to set, monitor, and enforce sustainable total allowable catch limits (TACs).
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Ecotrust Testimony on Fisheries Catch Shares
Catch share programs need to be carefully designed need to address long term issues in community stability, economic viability, and intergenerational processes. Fisheries are a public trust and community economic development asset and should remain as such.
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Quota Shares for the West Coast Trawl Fishery | Ecotrust
When creating a new market, design matters. A proposal under consideration by the Pacific Fishery Management Council to assign quota shares in the West Coast groundfish trawl fishery would set an important precedent for U.S. fisheries regulation.
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Transformations in Marine Governance in Chile
Members of the confederation of artisanal fishers acted as institutional entrepreneurs and facilitated the interactions that were required to transform the social-ecological regime.
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Mean Trophic Level as a Metric of Fisheries Health
We find that catch MTL (mean trophic level) does not reliably predict changes in marine ecosystems.
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Resilient Marine Protected Area Networks
An MPA network is also a network of people managing the components of individual MPAs and promoting the network’s viability and longevity.
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