Deep Dives
Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
Gove, J.M., et al., PNAS Plastics & Pollution
Many of the world’s marine fish spend the first days to weeks feeding and developing at the ocean surface. However, very little is known about the ocean processes that govern larval fish survivorship and hence adult fish populations that supply essential nutrients and protein to human societies.
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Alexander C. Kaufman Fisheries & Aquaculture
When winter fell on this quiet, wooded island, instinct took over. Birds flew south. Trees shed leaves. Dain Bichrest set his alarm for 3 a.m. Reaching a calloused hand through the frigid darkness, he silenced the device, stretched and started a routine that finished with the sea captain boarding his 42-foot boat and voyaging two hours into the Gulf of Maine to fishing grounds teeming with Northern shrimp. It became so routine he’d start to wake automatically.
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An interview with Laurel Bryant, Chief of External Affairs for NOAA Fisheries.
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Robert Masse Energy Solutions
Lithium-ion batteries are at the center of two other technological revolutions with the power to transform society: the transition from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, and the shift from an electric grid powered by fossil fuels to renewable energy generators that store surplus electricity in batteries for future use. But how do they work?Read more → (17 minute read)
Theuerkauf S.J. et al., PLoS ONE Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture of bivalve shellfish and seaweed represents a global opportunity to simultaneously advance coastal ecosystem recovery and provide substantive benefits to humanity.
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IPCC
Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the IPCC said in a new assessment. With clear benefits to people and natural ecosystems, limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C could go hand in hand with ensuring a more sustainable and equitable society, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said on Monday.Read more → (13 minute read)
Lili Jia, Steve Evans & Sander van der Linden, Nature Communcations Plastics & Pollution
Designing effective policy interventions to motivate mitigation actions requires more realistic assumptions about human decision-making based on empirical evidence from the behavioural sciences. We therefore need to consider behavioural rather than only economic costs and benefits in policy intervention designs.
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Jouffray, JP., et al., Science Advances Fisheries & Aquaculture
Can finance contribute to seafood sustainability? This is an increasingly relevant question given the projected growth of seafood markets and the magnitude of social and environmental challenges associated with seafood production. As more capital enters the seafood industry, it becomes crucial that investments steer the sector toward improved sustainability, as opposed to fueling unsustainable working conditions and overexploitation of resources.
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IPCC
This Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) was prepared following an IPCC Panel decision in 2016 to prepare three Special Reports during the Sixth Assessment Cycle.
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UCDavis, Coastal and Marine Institute Fisheries & Aquaculture
Our symposium will present the current scientific, economic, social, and governance issues surrounding the ocean’s role in global food production and explore potential impacts of climate change on these functions and processes.Read more → (more than an hour viewing)
Froehlich, H.E. et al., Current Biology Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Froehlich et al. find large-scale global mitigation through CO2eq sequestration unlikely but local to regional applications more feasible.
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Matross, D, et al., CREO Syndicate
Based on observations over the years, we have developed a framework to help investors understand where they are in the process.
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Sulan Chen et al., UNDP
The blue economy is an approach put forward by the international community to take into account the health of the oceans and seas as we strive to balance the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, social and environmental.
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Reidmiller, D.R. et al., U.S. Global Change Research Program Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Volume II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States.
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) assesses the science of climate change and variability and its impacts across the United States, now and throughout this century.
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Rubio, N., et al., Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Fisheries & Aquaculture
Cellular agriculture is defined as the production of agricultural products from cell cultures rather than from whole plants or animals. With growing interest in cellular agriculture as a means to address public health, environmental, and animal welfare challenges of animal agriculture, the concept of producing seafood from fish cell- and tissue-cultures is emerging as an approach to address similar challenges with industrial aquaculture systems and marine capture.
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Wenhai, L., et al., Frontiers in Marine Science
Careful definition and illustrative case studies are fundamental work in developing a Blue Economy. As blue research expands with the world increasingly understanding its importance, policy makers and research institutions worldwide concerned with ocean and coastal regions are demanding further and improved analysis of the Blue Economy.
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The Governance Group Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
The report finds that until regulators establish clearer ESG guidance companies in the shipping and seafood sectors will benefit from disclosing concrete information on the ESG issues that are material to their business model.
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World Wildlife Fund Fisheries & Aquaculture
The business case for sustainability.
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World Wildlife Fund Fisheries & Aquaculture
The business case for sustainability stems from the intrinsic need to responsibly manage our natural resources so we can continue to use them for years to come. Delve into these resources on the business case for sustainable seafood.
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The Nature Conservancy Fisheries & Aquaculture
By delivering Blue Bonds for Ocean Conservation in as many as 20 countries over the next five years, TNC will help ensure the new protection of up to 1.5 million square miles (4 million km2) of the world’s most biodiversity-critical ocean habitats – a 15 percent increase in the amount of protected ocean that currently exists.Read more → (7 minute read)
