Quick Dips
Curated topical articles on the Blue Economy
Writing staff, NZ Herald Fisheries & Aquaculture
Aquaculture startup CH4 Global is increasing its New Zealand operations to turn sustainable red seaweed into methane-busting livestock feed.
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World Ocean Initiative
The development of ocean accounts provides an unprecedented opportunity to showcase the value of the ocean and with it the prospect of long-term sustainability.
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Chloe Ranford Fisheries & Aquaculture
A boatload of mussel shells have been sunk off Marlborough’s shores to create a reef that will help revive marine life and a multimillion-dollar industry.
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Mark Harris Energy Solutions
Should billionaires be able to start tinkering with the climate without asking the rest of us?
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WORLD OCEAN INITIATIVE Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
The latest World Ocean Initiative webinar highlights recent developments in promoting ocean science, developing technological innovations and boosting financing instruments.
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Adrienne Murray Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
Seaweed production has boomed. Between 2005 and 2015 volumes doubled, surpassing 30 million tonnes annually, reports the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
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James Richens Fisheries & Aquaculture
With wild-fish stocks falling, a huge increase in farmed fish will be needed to meet the protein needs of the planet. James Richens reports on how the search for sustainable sources is focusing on the deep oceans, on land and even the laboratory
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Devastated by pandemic, tourism sector must be rebuilt in a safe, equitable and climate friendly way
UN News Tourism
Tourism is much more than visiting cultural landmarks or swimming in tropical beaches; it is “one of the world’s most important economic sectors”, the UN chief said.
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Conrad Prabhu Fisheries & Aquaculture
Underscoring the Omani government’s ambitions to develop a thriving aquaculture industry in the Sultanate, Blue Waters (BWs) – a group company of Fisheries Development Oman (FDO) wholly owned by Oman Investment Authority (OIA) – recently took delivery of the largest shipment of fish fingerlings for its maiden fish farming project currently under implementation off Qurayyat in Muscat Governorate.
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Dan Vermeer, SeaAhead Fisheries & Aquaculture
While there is a lot of enthusiasm for expanding seaweed production and use, we haven’t yet seen the industry take off. What can be done to help sustainable seaweed live up to its potential?
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Ilana Mayid Fisheries & Aquaculture
According to a 2018 Markets and Markets report, the commercial seaweed industry is expected to reach $21 billion in revenues and grow at a compounded rate of 8.4% by 2023 due to seaweed’s functional properties in food processing and a growth in demand for a wider-array of seaweed-based products.
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Laura Rose, Global Aquaculture Alliance Fisheries & Aquaculture
Experts agree that aquatic proteins deserve a bigger share of the plate.
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Harry Cockburn, Independent Energy Solutions
Use of coal is falling and renewables are surging around the world, but the progress is not enough to meet the targets set under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, scientists have warned.
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World Ocean Initiative Plastics & Pollution
By 2040 it is estimated that roughly 29m tonnes of plastic will leak into the ocean annually, equivalent to 50kg of plastic for every metre of coastline around the world.
This startling figure is at the centre of a two-year research project that highlights current failures to deal with plastic waste and urgently calls for system-wide change.
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Michael W. Lodge, Scientific American Energy Solutions
Deep-sea minerals, including nickel, copper, manganese and cobalt, are crucial to building clean-energy technologies.
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Olivia Rosane Energy Solutions
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a cheap, efficient way to convert carbon dioxide into liquid fuel, potentially reducing the amount of new carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere.
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Shawna Foo
Heat is also a concern for an important form of underwater gardening: growing corals and “outplanting,” or transplanting them to restore damaged reefs.
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A new federal task force has submitted recommendations that will be the basis for a strategy to help level the playing field for the U.S. seafood exporters and importers when doing business with other countries.
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World Ocean Initiative Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports
A new report commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy outlines the four investments with the biggest potential to secure ocean health and wealth.
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Rob Fletcher Fisheries & Aquaculture
The first ever analysis using the “One Health” approach to identify strategies by which nations can grow their aquaculture sectors sustainably has been published this week.
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