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1 week ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
Just 0.001% of the deep seafloor has ever been captured by photo or video images, a new study finds. That which has been captured is “biased” and potentially unrepresentative: 65% of observations have been in the waters of the United States, Japan or New Zealand, according to the study.
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1 week ago | 
eco-business.com | Edward Carver
Most of the world’s coral reefs, and the communities that directly depend on them, are in the tropics, so one might imagine the research on them being led by scientists and institutions based in tropical countries. The reality, however, is far different, a new study shows. Coral reef science is actually dominated by researchers from afar, the study found.
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1 week ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
A new study finds that coral reef researchers come mainly from institutions in high-income countries, and that the contributions of researchers from tropical, lower-income nations aren’t adequately recognized. “Parachute” research that leaves out local input is common, and when more local researchers are included, they report that it’s often done in a tokenistic way, the study finds.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
In April, scientists published the first-ever open-source map of fishmeal and fish oil factories around the world. The scientists found 506 factories across some 60 countries, and in most cases were able to identify the companies that own them. Fishmeal and fish oil production is controversial because it can incentivize the overexploitation of ocean ecosystems, depleting marine food webs, and negatively impact coastal communities that rely on fish for nutrition and livelihoods.
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4 weeks ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
The world’s most influential seafood companies and industry associations mostly lobby against environmental protections, a report by the U.K.-based NGO InfluenceMap found. The report assesses the biodiversity-related lobbying efforts of a list of the 30 most influential seafood companies in the world and 12 of the main industry associations they’re members of.
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1 month ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver |Rebecca Kessler
The United States has long been an international leader in fisheries and oceans science, with influence at international fora that it has sometimes wielded to support conservation measures and crackdowns on illegal fishing. However, U.S. influence at fisheries and oceans fora appear to be waning during the second Trump administration, which could compromise fisheries health and marine conservation, experts say. The administration, which took office Jan.
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1 month ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
The United States has long had one of the best systems of fisheries management in the world, supporting 2.3 million jobs and a relatively high number of healthy fish populations. The Trump administration is enacting sharp cuts to the budget, staff and facilities of the agency that manages U.S. fisheries, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and on April 17 ordered widespread deregulation of fisheries.
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2 months ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
The annual meeting of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), a multilateral body that manages most non-tuna fisheries in the region’s international waters, was held March 24-27 in Tokyo. In a bid to deter illegal fishing, the NPFC’s nine members agreed to require independent observers on ships that transfer fish at sea. The parties agreed to study the impact of bottom fishing on ocean habitats and to protect two small areas on one seamount.
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2 months ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Edward Carver
The U.N. report found evidence of sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs against detainees, many of whom were deprived of food, water, sleep, and toilet access. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday released a report detailing torture and abuse of Palestinians at Israeli detention centres, including sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs.
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2 months ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Edward Carver
“This is not just about wildlife,” an expert said. “It’s about the essential ecosystems that sustain human life.”Monitored populations of the world’s vertebrate animals declined on average by 73% between 1970 and 2020, according to a major report released Wednesday by the World Wild Fund for Nature and the Zoological Society of London.
