It is time to acknowledge and address the rapid shifts in Canada’s oceans. To meet this challenge, Canada’s marine conservation toolbox — starting with the Oceans Act — needs an overhaul.
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One of the oldest industries, fishing, is entering the world of advanced analytics and data-driven planning. With oceans under stress and key fish stocks dwindling, can precision fishing help?
It involves a trade-off between seafood production and seabed conservation.
The social, ecological and governance objectives of marine protected areas need to be understood to enhance benefits to both people and the environment.
If the local context and priorities of those who most directly rely on natural resources for their survival isn’t considered, conservation efforts will continue to fail.
In the design of marine protected areas, new research suggests that it might be better to start small in order to gain local trust and support that leads to larger long-term benefits.
Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic. Their daily use of the language at work helps keep it alive.
Australia needs to drop the deception that square kilometres say anything meaningful about conservation.
Marine protected areas will be important for achieving the ocean Sustainable Development Goals.
Partially protected areas don’t have more wildlife than unprotected areas. They consume conservation resources and occupy space that could otherwise be allocated to more effective protection.
Global leaders pledged to protect 10% of the oceans by 2020. We’re nowhere close and the goal has proven particularly challenging to achieve in international waters.
The Southern (Antarctic) Ocean is our planet’s primary storage of heat and carbon, and it’s home to extraordinary life forms, from tiny algae and spineless creatures to penguins, seals and whales.
The Blue Belt is a network of marine protected areas 17 times larger than the UK.
Most existing MPAs are in distant and largely empty waters. Expanding them where it counts will meet a lot of resistance.
More than 280 women in STEMM call for a marine protected area to be established in the waters of the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
Multiple ocean industries are rapidly growing, but efforts to protect vulnerable habitats are stalling.
The latest incident highlights a mismatch between ocean law and marine ecosystems.
Biodiversity is often highest in places with human activity. The fishing industry has shown we can often have it both ways: maintain important livelihoods while protecting precious marine life.
Without understanding which fish species and habitats local fishers rely on, export bans can do more harm than good.
Fish larvae will swim towards the sounds of a desirable reef, but degraded reefs cannot be rebuilt on sound alone.
Top contributors
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Professor, Conservation Planning, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University
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Professor of Environmental Governance, UCL
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Distinguished University Professor and Adviser in Marine Studies, Oregon State University
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Senior Lecturer in International Development, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Assistant Professor Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor of Biology, University of Victoria
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Emeritus Professor, Fisheries Aquaculture and Coasts Centre IMAS, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter
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Professor and Dean of Science, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer, UNSW Law, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow in Ocean Management, Stockholm University
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Senior Lecturer in Marine Ecosystem Management, University of York
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Senior Research Associate in Ecology, UNSW Sydney
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Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology
