5 July 2013

UK Fishermen set to work cleaning up the oceans

5 July 2013

The ocean is full of litter, and it is difficult to remove it all. So why not employ the good-will of fishers to remove some of it?

Samantha Andrews

3 July 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Move over beef production - aquaculture in the new kid on the block

Samantha Andrews

3 July 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Farmed fish and shellfish is becoming increasingly common in our supermarkets, but did you know that global aquaculture production has now overtaken beef production?

Samantha Andrews

19 June 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

CCTV reduces fish discards at sea

Samantha Andrews

19 June 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Ideally discards of marine life accidentally caught whilst fishing should be minimized by not catching non-targets in the first place.

Samantha Andrews

30 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

How to hunt a species to extinction

Samantha Andrews

30 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Surely if a species becomes too rare, it will eventually become uneconomical to hunt - even if they are worth a lot of money....so exploitation will stop? Not so!

Samantha Andrews

28 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Dolphin-free tuna. Are we worrying about the wrong species?

Samantha Andrews

28 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Cuteness is part of the reason why the public got behind the campaign for 'dolphin friendly tuna' back in the 80's and 90's.

Samantha Andrews

23 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

QR codes for your fish dinner

Samantha Andrews

23 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

So you know when you're tucking into something tasty in a sushi bar and you turn to your friend and say "I wonder what this actually is....is it even sustainable?".

Samantha Andrews

22 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Are all of Scotland's prawns in (the bottom of) one basket?

Samantha Andrews

22 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Putting all our (fisheries) eggs in (the bottom of) one basket isn't necessarily the wisest choice.

Samantha Andrews

20 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

The unintended consequences of simplifying the sea: making the case for complexity

Samantha Andrews

20 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

The UK prawn fishery - the most valuable of the UK fisheries - only came about because of overexploitation of other marine species. The industry, a new study finds, is not built on solid grounds.

Samantha Andrews

15 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture, Climate Crisis

Social-ecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to climatic shocks

Samantha Andrews

15 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture, Climate Crisis

The FAO have taken a look at the socio-ecological impacts of climate climate change and ocean acidification on a human community in Kenya that utilizes reefs for their livelihoods and survival

Samantha Andrews

14 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Rise in industrial fishing correlated decline in size of petrel prey

Samantha Andrews

14 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Using stable isotopes, scientists can figure out exactly where in the food chain petrels have been feeding.

Samantha Andrews

10 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

The Law That's Saving American Fisheries

Samantha Andrews

10 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

The 1976 Magnuson Stevens Fishery Conservation Act was arguably a groundbreaking piece of legislation that prevented widespread collapse of the US fishing industry.

Samantha Andrews

4 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

Who owns the fish in the sea?

Samantha Andrews

4 May 2013

Fisheries & Aquaculture

The UK High Court is being asked to make a judgement over the question of who owns the fish in the sea.

UK Fishermen set to work cleaning up the oceans

Move over beef production - aquaculture in the new kid on the block

CCTV reduces fish discards at sea

How to hunt a species to extinction

Dolphin-free tuna. Are we worrying about the wrong species?

QR codes for your fish dinner

Are all of Scotland's prawns in (the bottom of) one basket?

The unintended consequences of simplifying the sea: making the case for complexity

Social-ecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to climatic shocks

Rise in industrial fishing correlated decline in size of petrel prey

The Law That's Saving American Fisheries

Who owns the fish in the sea?

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