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Pioneers for sustainable trawling |
| Controlled trawl studies are rare as few researchers can dictate when fleets go out and where they go. But the conservancy is in a unique position. Following the collapse of the Pacific Coast bottom fish fishery in 2000, it bought permits from struggling fishers. It now owns 7 percent of the catch quota for Pacific Coast bottom fish, and has a monopoly over waters extending out from Morro Bay. This has allowed it to launch an ambitious plan: to create a new sustainable fisheries model. | |||
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Preliminary Findings on Bottom Trawling from Nature Conservancy Partnership |
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In a study sure to enrage extreme greenies everywhere, scientists in California have discovered that bottom trawling may not be systematic environmental pillage. In fact, it may even be good for the seabed. |
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Scientists Question Widely Used Indicator of Ocean Health |
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Branch and his co-authors are the first to combine so many trawl surveys for analysis – no one had combined more than a handful before. The trawl survey data came from efforts started three years ago by fisheries scientists and ecologists gathered at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara, Calif. They brought together worldwide catch data, stock assessments, scientific trawl surveys, small-scale fishery data and modeling results. What emerged is the most comprehensive set of data yet for fisheries researchers and managers. It paints a different picture from previous catch data and has revealed another major new finding: On a global scale humans don’t appear to be fishing down the food web, Branch said. |
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Researcher: Fish numbers triple after oil spill fishing closures |
| GULF OF MEXICO -- Scientists are starting to believe the most powerful environmental effect stemming from the BP oil spill may have nothing to do with the millions of gallons of petroleum loosed in the Gulf of Mexico. | |||
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Laboratory Animal Diets Formulated with Fish Meal |
| The benefits of supplementing diets with fish meal have been demonstrated in a number of species. Immunity and overall health are among some of the potential positive effects. | |||
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- Scientists, officials huddle on new fisheries research
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
