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How a Celebrity Chef Learned to Love Farmed and Frozen Fish
To feed a growing population, sustainable seafood advocate Ned Bell is encouraging fellow chefs and seafood consumers to look beyond ‘fresh’ and ‘wild.’
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Gene Pollution Threatens Wild Salmon. A Solution: Sterile Farmed Fish
Farmed Atlantic salmon don’t fare well in the wild. That’s a problem when they escape their pens and breed with vulnerable Atlantic salmon populations, spreading their genes. Scientists are now urging aquaculture companies to consider raising fish that won’t reproduce.
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Reducing Plastic Pollution Isn’t Enough to Save the Ocean
Mark J. Spalding
President, The Ocean Foundation
Mark J. Spalding President, The Ocean Foundation
Plastic production is expected to quadruple by 2050. Mark J. Spalding, president of The Ocean Foundation, explains how fully understanding the scope of the pollution problem convinced him that current efforts are not sufficient.
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Deeply Talks: Big Business Joins Fight Against Ocean Plastic Pollution
A growing wave of multinational corporations is pledging to stop handing out single-use plastic straws. Listen to Lonely Whale’s Dune Ives discuss the global momentum against disposable plastic and efforts to create a new ocean-friendly plastic supply chain.
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What’s a Clean Beach Worth to You?
Timothy Haab, a professor at Ohio State University, explains how and why putting a price tag on a beach’s value encourages policymakers to value natural capital.
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Gambians Fight Chinese Fishmeal Factory as Fish Prices Soar, Stocks Fall
As foreign-owned fishmeal factories proliferate in West Africa to supply feed for overseas aquaculture operations, prices for a key staple of the local diet are skyrocketing and Gambian fishers find it increasingly hard to compete against industrialized trawlers.
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The Nuclear Option: Technology to Extract Uranium From the Sea Advances
In a lab, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy recently produced 5g of yellowcake from uranium collected from the ocean. Scientists hope to test the technology in the Gulf of Mexico next – but it is still far from being commercially viable.
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Deeply Talks: U.S. Ocean Politics – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Following Capitol Hill Ocean Week, Oceans Deeply’s Jessica Leber and Kristen Sarri of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation discuss the ocean and coastal priorities of the Trump administration and Congress.
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New Fair Trade Movement: Raising Wages for International Ship Workers
Fair trade doesn’t always mean fair transport, unions say, as the International Labour Organization debates a minimum wage increase for the shipping industry. Better treatment of workers could also have environmental benefits, they argue.
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Why One Meter of Coral Reef Is Worth Billions of Dollars
Researchers have found that the top layer of coral reefs prevents $4 billion in flood damage annually by breaking up waves that propel destructive storm surges. As storms increase in frequency and force, reefs play a crucial role in protecting coastal property.
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The Island Paradise Where the Roads Are Made of Plastic
Utila, a Honduran island in the Caribbean Sea, is transforming the plastic trash that washes up on its beaches into material used to build roads, an increasingly popular use for marine pollution.
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Why Wild Seafood’s Carbon Footprint Is Growing – and How to Reduce It
Robert Parker at the University of British Columbia has calculated greenhouse gas emissions from the global fishing industry. He talks about what the data show and why not all fisheries are alike.
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Global Insurance Industry Steps Up to Turn Ocean Risk Into Resilience
At the Ocean Risk Summit in Bermuda, experts gathered to advance a new model for how insurance and reinsurance companies can leverage their products and balance sheets to restore marine ecosystems and slow climate change impacts.
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The Future of Food: Fish Not Fowl Best for Planet, Scientists Say
Researchers analyzed the environmental impacts of replacing land-raised meat with farmed seafood to feed a burgeoning population and found aquaculture could preserve nearly 750 million hectares. But there could be nutritional tradeoffs.
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Fighting Ocean Acidification With Underwater Forests
As the ocean’s pH drops, scientists are studying whether kelp and seagrass can create refuges that could help marine life survive acidifying waters.
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Why This Insurer Wants to Put the Spotlight on Growing ‘Ocean Risk’
Chip Cunliffe, director for sustainable development at XL Catlin, a global insurance and reinsurance group, explains why his company is hosting the first-ever Ocean Risk Summit in May and what it hopes to accomplish.
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A Floating Offshore Wind Farm Is Coming to California
Matthew Marshall, executive director of the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, explains why a public-private partnership wants to build what could be the country’s first floating wind farm, in the Pacific Ocean.
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How Historic Shipwreck Exploration Is Advancing Ocean Renewable Energy
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SEACAMS R&D Project Manager at the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences at Bangor University
Michael Roberts SEACAMS R&D Project Manager at the Centre for Applied Marine Sciences at Bangor University
Shipwrecks from both world wars are serving as models for research into how tidal and wave energy infrastructure will withstand marine conditions and potentially serve as artificial habitat.
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Acting Local: How a Kenyan Resort Town Grapples With Marine Pollution
Watamu is a popular tourist town that has had to organize a collective effort to keep its beaches and ocean clean. However, there are limits to what it can do about a global problem.
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Report: Offshore Fish Farms Could Thrive in California
Aquaculture proponents view the ocean off Southern California as an ideal place for an emerging industry. The key, new research found, will be to carefully locate facilities to minimize environmental risks and conflicts with other marine uses.
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Deeply Talks: Hedging Climate Change by Insuring Coral Reefs
In the latest installment of Deeply Talks, we discuss the world’s first insurance policy for a coral reef with experts at the Nature Conservancy. In Mexico, the policy will pay for coral reef restoration when destructive hurricanes strike.
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10 Billion Oysters: A Splashy Goal to Restore Chesapeake Bay
After years of work to bring oysters back, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found funding and interest harder to maintain, says scientist Chris Moore. So it helped form a new partnership that aims to plant 10 billion oysters by 2025 and grow a bigger oyster-farming industry.
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As the Arctic Melts, New Technologies Predict Where Sea Ice Will Be
Will the week’s sea ice be thin or thick or not there at all? New kinds of satellite data and better computer modeling will provide crucial information to Arctic Ocean communities and industries.
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The Largest Pacific Salmon Are Vanishing. Are Killer Whales the Cause?
Famed Chinook salmon are getting smaller, according to a new study analyzing 40 years of data. The research feeds a debate over who or what is shrinking the salmon – people or other predators – and what it means for efforts to save both endangered fish and marine mammals.
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Graying of Alaska’s Fishing Fleet Puts Key Industry in Peril
With the average age of commercial fishers now over 50, the state is trying to figure out ways to break down barriers that are increasingly keeping young people from working the sea.
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The Long Journey of Genetically Engineered Salmon to Your Dinner Plate
Thirty years of controversy has followed the transgenic technology that produces fast-growing fish but now it has finally arrived in Canada and could soon come to the United States. Will it live up to its claims of making seafood more sustainable?
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How One Vital Coastal Ecosystem Is Expanding With Climate Change
Tropical coastal mangroves are increasingly found in the world’s temperate zones. Samantha Chapman, a biologist at Villanova University, explains how her research has documented their dramatic growth into Florida’s salt marsh turf and why that raises questions about the future of coastlines.
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Mass Die-Off of Farmed Salmon Linked to Climate Change
Scientists have attributed an algal bloom that killed off $800 million worth of salmon in Chile to rising ocean temperatures, and they say other aquaculture operations around the world are at risk.
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Hacked at Sea: Concerns Grow Over Lax Cybersecurity for Ships, Ports
As hacking risks grow and maritime operations become more digitally connected, experts in industry and government have long said no one is prepared. This summer was a wake-up call.
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Red Herring: The Tons of Fish That Are Caught But Not Eaten
Most anchovies and herring commercially fished in California end up as fishmeal or bait, not on dinner plates. Now there’s a movement to get people to eat, not waste, small fish, and that could help preserve bigger species.
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How Scientists Use Bioluminescent Deep-Sea Creatures to Fight Cancer
Researchers have developed a new way to test the effectiveness of immunotherapies by injecting enzymes from glowing deep-ocean crustaceans into cancer cells. But threats to the ocean from climate change and exploitation threaten marine life and its medicinal potential.
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Alaska Turns to the Sea for its Newest Cash Crop
The state’s nascent seaweed industry is commercializing an ancient tradition, but concerns have been raised about the impact on indigenous kelp harvests.
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Oceans Deeply Talks: Outlook 2018
Oceans Deeply talks with three experts in the fields of marine conservation, aquaculture and shipping about the big issues on their plate for the coming year.
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How Hydrogen Could Help Clean Up the Global Shipping Industry
With their greenhouse gas emissions rising and regulations looming, shipping companies that transport nearly all of the world’s goods are looking at renewable fuel sources to power container ships.
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Meet the Man Launching Private Voyages to the Titanic This Year
Even today, few people have ever traveled to the bottom of the ocean. Stockton Rush, chief executive of OceanGate, explains why he is designing a submersible that will take paying clients there on research missions.
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Farming Nemo: Breeding Aquarium Fish to Save Wild Species, Coral Reefs
Collecting tropical fish for the aquarium market is depleting wild populations and harming coral reefs. Conservationists are developing techniques to breed highly sought fish in captivity to spare their wild cousins.
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Outlook 2018: The Big Ocean Issues and Trends to Watch
Key negotiations will begin to protect biodiversity in two-thirds of the ocean and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from shipping. Meanwhile, watch for advances in sustainable aquaculture production both in the U.S. and globally.
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A Deep Dive Into the Year in Oceans 2017
The ocean may cover more than 70 percent of the planet, but it doesn’t get covered nearly enough in the news. Oceans Deeply launched in June to help fill that gap. Catch up on our coverage during a busy year for ocean health.
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See Who Just Pledged $8 Billion to Protect the Ocean
As momentum builds for an international treaty to protect high seas biodiversity, national leaders and business executives at the fourth Our Ocean conference vowed to take action to fight climate change, plastic pollution and other threats to marine ecosystems.
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Why Tearing Down Dams Could Help Save Endangered Killer Whales
Dams, pollution and development have taken a toll on salmon populations in Washington State. Now researchers find that the lack of fish is causing pregnant orcas to miscarry, further imperiling the endangered killer whales.