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Despite contributing to healthy diets for billions of people, aquatic foods are often undervalued as a nutritional solution because their diversity is often reduced to the protein and energy value of a single food type (‘seafood’ or ‘fish’).
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Dr. Melissa Walsh, Dr. Rhona Barr, and Camilla Sundberg, Marine Conservation Finance
Finance is critical to the long-term success of MPAs, yet finance remains fragmented and limited.
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Conservationists are sounding the alarm over the international race to exploit the Antarctic's krill swarms.
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We at Aqua-Spark believe that aquaculture production will have to accelerate and have identified tilapia to be the fish to do so: it’s scalable and it’s healthy, sustainable, and affordable.
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Blythe, J. et al., British Ecological Society
Research is demonstrating the potential of virtual reality to stimulate users’ capacity to imagine and pursue more sustainable futures and to encourage pro-environmental behaviour.
Building on this work, we asked whether experiencing the oceans in a virtual reality environment could make someone care about them and take action?
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Sustainable Use, Mariculture and Conservation of Giant Clams in the Marine Regulated Fishing Area of Reao Atoll, Tuamotu.
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Kelp can clean New York’s polluted waters, tackle climate change and is sustainable – but growers need a law change first.
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Reef-building corals thriving in extreme thermal environments may provide genetic variation that can assist the evolution of populations to rapid climate warming. However, the feasibility and scale of genetic improvements remain untested despite ongoing population declines from recurrent thermal stress events.
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Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
Dee Hon, BC BusinessBut our growing ocean economy faces stiff competition from overseas.
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John Virdin, Our Shared Seas
The role of “ocean aid” in achieving global targets for ocean conservation and sustainable use by 2030.
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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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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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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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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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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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Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Blue Marine FoundationThe emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.
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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 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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Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges.
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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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