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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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A Voyage to the White Shark Cafe to Find Out What’s on the Menu
The predators’ annual migration to a remote area of the Pacific Ocean has long remained a mystery. Now scientists have embarked on a mission to investigate just what the great whites are doing during their sojourn. The answers could help protect the region.
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Fish Fight: Is Aquaculture Feeding the People Who Need it Most?
Marine scientist Edward Allison says his research shows that in some developing countries, fish farming is not benefiting nutritionally vulnerable communities. That has triggered a backlash from other researchers and the aquaculture industry.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Holiday Savings: These Plastic Gifts Are Good for the Ocean
A growing number of companies are intercepting plastic before it enters the ocean and harms marine life, turning trash into everything from sunglasses and surfboard fins to swimwear and skateboards.
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E.U. Looks to Stop Plastic Trash Before it Pollutes the Mediterranean
The Mediterranean and Baltic Seas harbor some of the highest levels of plastic pollution in the world. A new EU-financed collaboration between universities and companies will develop technologies for wastewater treatment plants and waterways that can stop the flow.
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Why Seafood Is Poised for Silicon Valley-Style Disruption
Fish 2.0 brings together startups and investors that want to make seafood more sustainable. Founder Monica Jain says emerging technologies and market forces will push the industry to change – sooner rather than later.
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Fish Out of Water: Interest in Land-Based Aquaculture Grows
The recent escape of 160,000 Atlantic salmon raised in Pacific Ocean pens and environmental concerns about the impact of fish farms on wild populations have prompted a new look at inland aquaculture.
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The Animal Without a Brain That Is Taking Over the Ocean
Jellyfish are thriving as warming seas, acidification and deoxygenation threaten other marine life. After long ignoring the beautiful but mysterious creatures, scientists are trying to figure out what makes them such survivors in the age of climate change.
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Tracking the Travels of Bluefin Tuna to Save Them From the Sushi Bar
Research into the migratory habits of severely depleted Pacific bluefin tuna populations offers new information about their behavior and insights into how to prevent overfishing of the valuable species.
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How Ocean Aquaculture Could Feed the Entire World – and Save Wild Fish
Marine researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, mapped out the potential of the open ocean to support farmed fish and came to some surprising conclusions.
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The Discovery That Could Throw a Monkey Wrench in Deep-Sea Mining
Hydrothermal vent fields on the seabed are rich in copper, gold and other valuable metals, but scientists have found that some are home to unique animals found nowhere else on Earth.
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On Display: Aquariums’ Solution for the Ocean Plastic Pollution Crisis
The United States’ major aquariums pledge to go plastic-free by 2020, showing one way to eliminate plastic from the industrial supply chain before it reaches the ocean.