Dalhousie marine biology professor Boris Worm has been obsessed with the ocean for a long time, and for the last six years, has been obsessed with getting others hooked on his lifelong passion.
It is a phenomenon that happens far from shore, with fishing boats transferring their catches to large, refrigerated ships that carry the lucrative haul back to ports for distribution around the world. The practice – known as transshipment – has for decades operated in the shadows, largely beyond the reach of prying eyes and national…
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Etwa 90 Millionen Tonnen Fisch zogen Fischer im Jahr 2015 aus den Weltmeeren. Doch welche Schiffe sich wie lange wo befanden – und ob sie sich nur dort aufhielten, wo sie das auch durften -, war lange Zeit nicht nachzuvollziehen.
Scientists tag sharks to see where they roam in the high seas, but until now they couldn’t track the seas’ biggest eater: Humans. By using ships’ own emergency beacons, researchers got the first comprehensive snapshot of industrial fishing’s impacts around the globe. And it’s huge — bigger than scientists thought, according to a new study. Read…
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Humans have harvested the ocean’s resources for millennia, but a new study published this week in the journal Science reveals, for the first time ever, a precise image of the massive scale of global fishing activity.
Global fishing efforts are so wide ranging that fleets covered more than 460 million kilometres in 2016 – a distance equal to going to the moon and back 600 times. That startling revelation is contained in a newly published study in Science that quantifies fishing’s global footprint for the first time. Read the full story…
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Humans are now fishing at least 55 percent of the world’s oceans — an area four times larger than the area occupied by humanity’s onshore agriculture.
With the help of big data and technology originally designed to prevent ships from colliding, a team of researchers has stitched together the most detailed map yet of fisheries around the globe, which sheds light on just how intensive industrial fishing has become.