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Jan 01 - 2023
EN Europe
Rethinking EU Aquaculture: For People, Animals and the Planet
Compassion in World Farming
Why the EU aquaculture industry should move away from intensive fish farming, towards extensive systems that are more sustainable and better for the environment.
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Feb 22 - 2023
GR Europe
OZON
OZON's investigation of solid waste resulting from leakage, dumping, and abandonment in the Saronic Gulf by fish farming businesses.
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Aug 22 - 2021
EN Europe
Review of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Coastal Mediterranean Sea, With a Focus on Greek Waters
MDPI
An analysis of the causes of anthropogenic marine eutrophication in Mediterranean coastal areas, which have given rise to harmful algal taxa that threaten the local ecosystem.
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Jul 26 - 2021
EN Global
Changing Matters
The material risks of fish mortality and the use of wild-caught fish in feed for the aquaculture sector.
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Jun 01 - 2021
EN Africa, Europe
Greenpeace
How European aquaculture and animalfeed industries are stealing food from West African communities.
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Apr 19 - 2016
EN North America
Aquacultures' Effect on the Environment
UMASS Amherst, Debating Science
Aquaculture has a negative effect on the environment through both sediment and nutrient pollution.
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Jun 01 - 2010
EN Europe
Fishy Formula - Why the European Strategy Does Not Add Up to Sustainable Aquaculture
Food & Water Europe
The proposed benefits of increased food production via open water aquaculture (increased food production and job creation) are challenged by the darker side of the practice, including environmental damage, endangerment of wild populations, rampant use of antibiotics and harmful chemicals, job instability, and reliance on fish meal from wild populations. Investment in more sustainable forms of aquaculture, such as land-based recirculating aquaculture, small-scale shellfish aquaculture, and artisanal fishing and tourism would better serve communities.
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Dec 01 - 2007
EN Global
Challenging the Aquaculture Industry on Sustainability
Greenpeace
Against a continuing background of diminishing and over–exploited marine resources, aquaculture has been widely held up as a panacea to the problem of providing a growing world population with ever-increasing amounts of fish for consumption. With the expansion of the industry, however, the tendency has been for methods of production to intensify, particularly in the production of carnivorous species. This has resulted in many serious impacts on the environment and human rights abuses. This report examines some of the serious environmental and social impacts that have resulted from the development and practice of aquaculture and which are reflected across the global industry.
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Sept 14 - 2023
EN Europe
87% of Poros Opposes Expansion of Fish Farming
Katheti
The survey, conducted in July 2023 by Kapa Research, measured how aware residents were of the plans for the national government to expand fish farms across Greece as well as how much they knew about plans to expand fish farming specifically on the popular tourist island, Poros.
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Jul 20 - 2023
EN Europe
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Nov 08 - 2021
EN Global
Understanding the Conservation Finance Industry
Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements
An introduction to how US conservation organisations have been taken over by big finance. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Nov 01 - 2023
EN Global
European Network on Debt and Development
An introduction to sovereign ESG bonds and explores some of the limitations and risks around the push for ESG financing as a way for global south countries to close the financing gap for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and climate action. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Oct 01 - 2023
EN Global
The Financialization of Marine Conservation: The Case of Debt-for-Ocean Swaps
Society for International Development
Several concerns exist about debt-for-ocean swaps, opaque transactions from the perspective of debt justice and the democratic and equitable governance of marine resources. Debt-for-ocean swaps illustrate the pace at which financialization has transformed international approaches to conservation and the risks that this brings. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Nov 15 - 2023
EN Global
Gabon’s Odious Debt-for-ocean Swap: The implications for ocean governance
Coalition for Fair Fisheries Arrangements
The Nature Conservancy's debt-for-ocean swap with Gabon will result in protection for 30% of Gabon's oceans, but brings in question issues of debt justice, ocean governance, and implications for coastal communities. By Dr. Andre Standing
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Feb 01 - 2024
EN Europe, Africa
Feedback
This report exposes how the expansion of the Norwegian salmon farming industry has come at the expense of communities and fish populations in the Global South. While salmon producers tout their sustainability credentials, the industry’s inefficient and wasteful use of finite natural resources is driving the loss of livelihoods and exacerbating malnutrition in nations including The Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania. We argue that the Norwegian salmon industry is not so much leading a ‘blue revolution’ as establishing a ‘blue empire’.
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Jan 01 - 2022
EN Africa
Socio-Economic and Biological Impacts of the Fish-Based Feed Industry for Sub-Saharan Africa
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
The feed industry serving farmed fish creates a strain on sub-Saharan Africa wild fish stock and the people of the region, refuting the argument that carnivorous fish farming will be the answer to feeding a growing world population.The study identifies a range of actions the fish feed industry can take to minimize the economic, environmental, and health impacts created by this industry.
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Oct 16 - 2017
EN Europe
Seagrass mapping in Greek territorial waters using Landsat-8 satellite images
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation
Seagrass meadows are among the most valuable coastal ecosystems on earth due to their structural and functional roles in the coastal environment. This study demonstrates remote sensing's capacity to produce seagrass distribution maps on a regional scale. The seagrass coverage maps provided here describe and quantify for the first time the extent and the spatial distribution of seagrass meadows in Greek waters. This information is needed for identifying priority conservation sites and to help coastal ecosystem managers and stakeholders to develop conservation strategies and design a resilient network of protected marine areas.
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Sept 11 - 2020
EN Asia
Developing an Atlas of Harmful Algal Blooms in the Red Sea: Linkages to Local Aquaculture
Remote Sensing
A study of harmful algae blooms in the Red Sea reveals a potential correlation with activity from the National Aquaculture Group (NAQUA), pointing to a need for a national wastewater management plan that will prevent excessive nutrient overload.
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Jan 01 - 2019
EN North America
U.S. Commercial Fisheries and the Seafood Industry Landings and Values, 2019
NOAA
Infographics supporting the annual Fisheries of the United States report, a yearbook of fisheries statistics for the nation providing data on commercial landings and value and recreational catch.
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Jan 01 - 2007
EN Europe
Monitoring methods for Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows in Provence and the French Riviera
Scientific Reports of Port-Cros National Park
The Posidonia Monitoring Network is an extensive system put in place in 1984 to monitor the health of Posidonia meadows around Provence and the French Riviera. It aims to track the effects of human activity to help shape policies around marine protected areas.
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Dec 01 - 2023
EN Europe
Monachus monachus, Mediterranean Monk Seal
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The Mediterranean Monk Seal has rebounded from critically endangered status, but unpredictable threats exist, including disease, toxic algal blooms, cave collapses, pollution, and climate change. Greece supports a growing range of habitat for the monk seal, but the government must prioritize conservation efforts to protect them. Fisheries contribute to the pollution that threatens this species.
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