Sustainable Fisheries: quotas and Peru
For decades anchovetas have been ground into fishmeal, of which Peru is the world’s top producer. They have suffered from rampant overfishing, whose effects are sometimes amplified by the disruptive El...
View ArticleThe Coral Triangle, biodiversity, fisheries and climate change
Stretching across six countries in Southeast Asia and Melanesia (Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Timor Leste), the Coral Triangle contains the richest marine...
View ArticleRegulation of Deep-Sea Fishing by Depth: the scientific facts
A study published in 2009 suggested that in all but the deepest of their waters—those with a seabed closer than 1,500 metres to the surface—yields had dropped by 70% over 25 years. Even in the abyss...
View ArticleOpen-Ocean Farming
Ocean Farm 1is the first of six experimental fish farms ordered by SalMar, a Norwegian firm, at a total cost of $300 million. InnovaSea, an American firm, makes large open-ocean aquaculture nets called...
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