Pulse trawling, a new kind of technology that uses electric pulses to startle fish into nets, has less potential environmental impact than bottom trawling, but has equity concerns among fishers and ethical considerations for fish. The EU recently decided to ban the practice.
Fishery management goals are to keep stakeholders happy and ensure triple bottom line success. With new protections off the coast of California, the PFMC hit a home a run: fishermen & women get to catch more rockfish on sandy bottoms and coral and sponges are protected for the future.
Recovering populations of killer whales, sea lions and harbor seals on the West Coast are eating increased numbers of Chinook salmon, and their consumption may now exceed the combined harvest by commercial and recreational fisheries, a new study finds.
In early October, Chris Oliver, NOAA Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, sent a letter to the Editor-in-Chief at Marine Policy, Dr. Hance Smith, requesting the retraction of a paper titled “Estimates of illegal and unreported seafood imports to Japan”
The Vaquita Porpoise, a resident of the Sea of Cortez, is near extinction. Recent estimates peg the population of the world’s smallest cetacean at no
What Makes a Successful System of Fishing Opportunities? Catch Shares and Other Systems in the EU By Griffin Carpenter The systems for allocating fishing opportunities
The 2016 Discard ban – Choking or Crying Wolf? by Philip Taylor & Griffin Carpenter 2017 is set to be an exciting year for our
US Fisheries at Grave Risk if Government Stifles Science Data By John Sackton, Editor and Publisher of Seafoodnews.com Those who know me have no
The following comment was written by Kitty Simonds as a response to our “8 scientists talk about marine protected areas post” (you can see it
Fishermen and MPAs don’t seem to mesh well. What fisherman would prefer to have their fishing area restricted? Most of the media coverage regarding fishermen
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