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From the front lines of the 2012 AAAS meeting

4/30/12 •

This post was written by by Claire Hornby, Sarah Harper, Robin Ramdeen, Dyhia Belhabib, Frédéric Le Manach and Aylin Ulman and appeared in the newsletter. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held its 178th Annual Meeting in Vancouver from February 16-20, 2012. The theme of this year’s conference was “Flattening the world: [...]

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TED Talk: Daniel Pauly on Shifting Baselines

3/20/12 •

Daniel Pauly’s TED talk on Shifting Baselines is finally up! Watch the video, or read the transcript below: I’m going to speak about a tiny, little idea. And this is about shifting baseline. And because the idea can be explained in one minute, I will tell you three stories before to fill in the time. [...]

Law That Regulates Shark Fishery Is Too Liberal

3/02/12 •

Shark fins are worth more than other parts of the shark and are often removed from the body, which gets thrown back into the sea. To curtail this wasteful practice, many countries allow the fins to be landed detached from shark bodies, as long as their weight does not exceed five per cent of the [...]

Fish Farms from Space: The Ground Truth from Google Earth

2/09/12 •

The Great Wall of China is not the only thing you can see from space. Fish farming cages are clearly visible through Google Earth’s satellite images and University of British Columbia researchers have used them to estimate the amount of fish being cultivated in the Mediterranean. The study, published yesterday in the online journal PLoS [...]

First Global Estimate of Fish Biomass

1/15/09 •

Sea Around Us Project member Villy Christensen is author on a paper that provides first-ever estimate of worldwide fish biomass and impact on climate change. Read the press release and the full study published in Science (here also is a link to the associated ‘perspective’ article). Below is a video animation of fish excreting pellets [...]

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4/30/12 •
From the front lines of the 2012 AAAS meeting
3/20/12 •
TED Talk: Daniel Pauly on Shifting Baselines
3/02/12 •
Law That Regulates Shark Fishery Is Too Liberal
2/21/12 •
Boris Jovanovic – Post-Doc
2/21/12 •
Dyhia Belhabib – Ph.D. Student

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4/30/12 •
From the front lines of the 2012 AAAS meeting
3/20/12 •
TED Talk: Daniel Pauly on Shifting Baselines
3/02/12 •
Law That Regulates Shark Fishery Is Too Liberal
2/21/12 •
Boris Jovanovic – Post-Doc
2/21/12 •
Dyhia Belhabib – Ph.D. Student