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New study shines light on shadowy fisheries operating beyond national jurisdictions

Lab News

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…

July 25, 2018
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Fischer beanspruchen mehr als die Hälfte der weltweiten Ozeanfläche

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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.

Read the fully story here on Süddeutsche Zeitung

February 24, 2018
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Large-scale commercial fishing covers more than half of the oceans, study finds

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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…

February 23, 2018
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MASSIVE GLOBAL FISHING FOOTPRINT CAPTURED IN DETAIL FOR FIRST TIME

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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.

Read the fully story here on Dal News

February 22, 2018
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Study co-authored by Halifax marine biologist reveals fishing’s startling global footprint

Lab News

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…

February 22, 2018
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New maps show the utterly massive imprint of fishing on the world’s oceans

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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.

Read the fully story here on The Washington Post

February 22, 2018
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Researchers map massive global footprint of industrial fishing

Lab News

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.

Read the fully story here on The Globe and Mail

February 22, 2018
MAINSTREET NS | February 13, 2018

Hear some human-made noises that drown our the sound of life in the oceans

Dalhousie University scientist Boris Worm describes how some of the noises humans make under water kill marine life, and he plays some of the sounds for Bob Murphy on Mainstreet in Halifax.
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MAINSTREET NS | January 23, 2018

Check out the seal that sounds like a cartoon bomb when it dives

From whale calls to ice cracking, our oceans guy Boris Worm plays underwater recordings and talks about what researchers are learning from them. Did you know herring fart? 
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MAINSTREET NS | January 11, 2018

Oceans Guy says the ‘weather bomb’ turned the ocean lime green

How does a weather bomb turn the Atlantic ocean green? Tune in to hear the Oceans Guy explain why.
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