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Evaluation of nutrient bioextraction by seaweed and shellfish aquaculture in Korea

Park, J.S. et al, World Aquaculture Society Fisheries & Aquaculture

Although Korea is third in seaweed production and second in shellfish production globally, this is the first study evaluating ecosystem services of seaweed and shellfish aquaculture in Korea.

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Impact Investing in a Sustainable Ocean and Global Fisheries

Our Shared Seas Fisheries & Aquaculture

The purpose of this essay is to better understand the current state and future of sustainable investing in the ocean and fisheries.

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AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

IPCC Energy Solutions

The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.

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The Seas Are Rising. Could Oysters Help?

Eric Klinenberg, The New Yorker Fisheries & Aquaculture

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

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Paint particles in the marine environment

Andrew Turner, University of Plymouth Plastics & Pollution

Because paint particles consist of a resin (polymer) combined with one or more additives, they bear compositional similarities with microplastics. Despite these shared characteristics, however, paint particles are often undetected, deliberately overlooked or evade classification in the pool of micro-debris.

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Blue Carbon: A New Frontier for Ocean Conservation?

Blue Marine Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture

The emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.

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Challenging the Need for Deep Seabed Mining From the Perspective of Metal Demand, Biodiversity, Ecosystems Services, and Benefit Sharing

Miller, K.A. et al., Frontiers in Marine Science Energy Solutions

The extraction of minerals from the seabed of the deep oceans is of increasing interest to investors, mining companies and some coastal states.

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The State of the World's Mangroves

Global Mangrove Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture

The State of the World’s Mangroves provides the very latest information on what we know about mangroves and what’s being done to support these magnificent habitats.

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The truth behind corporate climate pledges

Jocelyn Timperley, The Guardian Energy Solutions

Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges.

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Blue ticked off: the controversy over the MSC fish ‘ecolabel’

Karen McVeigh, The Guardian Fisheries & Aquaculture

The MSC’s coveted blue tick is the world’s biggest, and some say best, fishery ecolabel. So why is it in the headlines – and does it really do what it says on the tin?

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Direct and ancillary benefits of ecosystem based fisheries management in forage fish fisheries

Sanchirico, J.N. & Essington, T.E., Ecological Applications Fisheries & Aquaculture

In this research, we investigate the potential economic and ecological gains from adopting ecosystem-based approaches for the sardine and anchovy fisheries off of the coast of California.

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Micronutrient supply from global marine fisheries under climate change and overfishing

Maire, E. et al., Current Biology Fisheries & Aquaculture

Global marine fisheries yields are threatened by climate change and overfishing, yet understanding of how these stressors affect the nutrients available from fisheries is lacking.

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Predicted Shifts in the Distributions of Atlantic Reef-Building Corals in the Face of Climate Change

Principe, S.C. et al., Frontiers Fisheries & Aquaculture

With climate change, many coral species are experiencing shifts in their distributions, threatening the preservation of coral reefs.

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The blue carbon wealth of nations

Bertram, C. et al., Nature Climate Change Energy Solutions

Carbon sequestration and storage in mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass meadows is an essential coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystem service for climate change mitigation.

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Toward the Detection and Imaging of Ocean Microplastics With a Spaceborne Radar

Madeline C. Evans & Christopher S. Ruf, IEEE Xplore Plastics & Pollution

Most direct measurements come from plankton net trawling made in these regions; concentrations in other regions have been estimated by microplastic transport models that depend on large-scale ocean circulation patterns. However, global measurements of microplastic distribution and its temporal variability are lacking.

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Ocean Literacy within the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable development: A Framework for Action

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

Ocean Literacy efforts can contribute to progress in all of the Ocean Decade Challenges by encouraging an informed society that values the ocean and takes action to overcome such challenges.

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Together Is Better: The Rumen Microbial Community as Biological Toolbox for Degradation of Synthetic Polyesters

Quartinello, F. et al., Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology Plastics & Pollution

Microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, are becoming an emerging resource for the development of eco-sustainable plastic degradation and recycling processes.

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Ocean Rising: The Quest to Inspire the Public

Schmidt Ocean Institute, Nekton

While often not at the forefront of conversation on the global stage, our ocean is the backbone of climate and life on this planet.

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Financial Sector Guide for the Convention on Biological Diversity

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, et al.

Why is nature important for the financial sector? How does the CBD work? What is being discussed at the COP15 and why is it relevant for financial institutions? How can the financial sector act?

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Assessing the spatial burden of harmful fisheries subsidies

Skerritt, D.J. & Sumaila, UR., Fisheries Economics Research Unit / Oceana Fisheries & Aquaculture

For years we have known that governments subsidize fishing by their own fleets in the waters of other nations. But we did not know exactly where those dollars were destined, making it hard to determine a cumulative footprint for foreign subsidy spending in coastal state waters.

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