Research suggests that the oceans’ phytoplankton are declining in abundance in many places.
Mangroves are the rainforests by the sea, found at the boundary where land meets ocean. They serve a wide range of ecological functions, providing economically valuable products and services.
Ghost Fishing’ is what fishing gear does when it has been lost, dumped or abandoned. Imagine a fishing net that gets snagged on a reef or a wreck and gets detached from the fishing vessel.
The most underappreciated of marine ecosystems, the humble seagrass meadow.
If you were to ask people what influences the abundance of fish in the sea, most would probably answer ‘commercial fishing’. While it is true that commercial fishing can deplete fish stocks, another important factor, the ‘environment’, or more accurately, environmental variability.
studying the plankton has helped to understand climate-induced changes in the North Sea, a productive marine ecosystem that once provided 5% of the total global seafood harvest.
Whales, dolphins and porpoises, collectively known as cetaceans (for their classification in the mammalian order Cetacea) have long captured the attention of humans. From early drawings etched on the walls of Paleolithic caves, to 21st century satellite tags tracking the underwater movements of these denizens of the deep, the lives of humans and whales have been inexorably entangled.
We have come a long way since early conservationists started with many beleaguered nesting sea turtle populations in the middle to the late part of the 20th Century. Nesting turtles are now protected in many countries around the world, there are now very few large legal harvests, and many populations, such as the one we study in Ascension Island have begun to recover incredibly well.
Research suggests that the oceans’ phytoplankton are declining in abundance in many places.
Mangroves are the rainforests by the sea, found at the boundary where land meets ocean. They serve a wide range of ecological functions, providing economically valuable products and services.
Ghost Fishing’ is what fishing gear does when it has been lost, dumped or abandoned. Imagine a fishing net that gets snagged on a reef or a wreck and gets detached from the fishing vessel.
The most underappreciated of marine ecosystems, the humble seagrass meadow.
If you were to ask people what influences the abundance of fish in the sea, most would probably answer ‘commercial fishing’. While it is true that commercial fishing can deplete fish stocks, another important factor, the ‘environment’, or more accurately, environmental variability.
studying the plankton has helped to understand climate-induced changes in the North Sea, a productive marine ecosystem that once provided 5% of the total global seafood harvest.
Whales, dolphins and porpoises, collectively known as cetaceans (for their classification in the mammalian order Cetacea) have long captured the attention of humans. From early drawings etched on the walls of Paleolithic caves, to 21st century satellite tags tracking the underwater movements of these denizens of the deep, the lives of humans and whales have been inexorably entangled.
We have come a long way since early conservationists started with many beleaguered nesting sea turtle populations in the middle to the late part of the 20th Century. Nesting turtles are now protected in many countries around the world, there are now very few large legal harvests, and many populations, such as the one we study in Ascension Island have begun to recover incredibly well.
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