Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Global Aquaculture Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture
By 2030, 62 percent of all seafood produced for human consumption will come from aquaculture. Today, it’s about 50 percent. So, what is aquaculture?
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Lisa Duchene, Global Aquaculture Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture
Conservation organization The Nature Conservancy takes a considered step into aquaculture.
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Brigit Katz, Correspondent, Smithsonian Magazine Fisheries & Aquaculture
The prevalence of conchs in the Bahamas’ culture and economy has come at a sobering cost
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James Temple, MIT Technology Review Fisheries & Aquaculture
A diet supplemented with red algae could lessen the huge amounts of greenhouse gases emitted by cows and sheep, if we can just figure out how to grow enough.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Louise Elizabeth Maher-Johnson, Scientific American Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
We can sequester carbon and improve our nutrition through regenerative farming of land and sea.
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Natasha Garcha, World Resources Institute / The Economist Group Fisheries & Aquaculture
Our world’s top scientists spend billions of dollars every year on space exploration, searching the universe for one thing: water, considered a necessity for life. Yet on Earth, our primary source of water — the ocean — is perhaps one of the most undervalued resources on the planet.
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Jurriaan Kamp, President & Editor in Chief of the Optimist Daily Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Gas is the future. That may sound counterintuitive in an emerging world of renewable energy where new solar power records are set on a monthly basis. However, for Joost Wouters, Dutch engineer and entrepreneur at Inrada Group, there’s no doubt: in the future, we will continue to use gas-fired stoves to cook our meals and warm our homes with gas-burning heating systems. Gas? Yes, biogas from seaweed.Read more → (6 minute read)
Editorial Staff, World Resources Institute Fisheries & Aquaculture
The ocean is vast and complex, but there is at least one clear truth; there are fewer and fewer fish in the sea, and better fisheries management is needed.
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Nathanael Johnson, Grist Fisheries & Aquaculture
Not all fish are created equal when it comes to their impact on the climate, according to a new study.
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University of Western Australia, PHYS ORG Fisheries & Aquaculture
A global study led by a team from The University of Western Australia and the Marine Biological Association of the UK has found that kelp forests take in more than twice the amount of carbon dioxide than previously thought, which can help mitigate the impact of climate change.
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Rachel Crane, CNN Fisheries & Aquaculture
The average American male consumes 100 grams of protein daily -- almost double the necessary amount. This overconsumption isn't sustainable. The United Nations projects food production will need to increase as much as 70% by 2050 to feed an extra 2.5 billion people.Read more → (6 minute read)
United Nations Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
14.1 By 2025, prevent and significantly reduce marine pollution of all kinds, particularly from land-based activities, including marine debris and nutrient pollution 14.2 By 2020, sustainably manage and protect marine and coastal ecosystems to avoid significant adverse impacts, including by strengthening their resilience, and take action for their restoration, to achieve healthy and productive oceans 14.3 Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels 14.4 By 2020, effectively regulate harvesting, and end overfishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and destructive fishing practices and implement science-based management plans, to restore fish stocks...
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Kathryn Behesht, The Ocean Foundation Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seagrasses are aquatic flowering plants that are found along a broad latitudinal range. As one of the planets most effective and efficient coastal systems for carbon sequestration, proper conservation and management of seagrass meadows is critical to combat the global loss of seagrasses.Read more → (6 minute read)
Jim Tan, Mongabay Fisheries & Aquaculture
New research finds that the queen conch (Strombus gigas), economically important as food and for its decorative shell, is facing unprecedented fishing pressure throughout its Caribbean range.
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Kalila Morsink, Smithsonian Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution
That’s right—more than half of the oxygen you breathe comes from marine photosynthesizers, like phytoplankton and seaweed.
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Bloomberg Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture is drawing entrepreneurs and investors, in an overfished world with a growing appetite for the healthy protein. Farmed or wild? Local or imported? Organic? Or some certification you’ve never heard of?
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Aviva Investors Fisheries & Aquaculture
Investors must do more to push seafood companies to adopt progressive policies that enhance the sustainability of fishing and fish farming and reduce the potential for environmental and human rights abuses, according to a report issued today by Aviva Investors and the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership.
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The Street.com Fisheries & Aquaculture
A small fish swallowed a bigger fish when the U.K.’s Benchmark Holdings bought Belgium’s Inve Aquaculture from Coöperatieve Rabobank and Royal Bank of Scotland in December for about £227 million ($321.8 million).Read more → (12 minute read)
