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Sept 02 - 2021
EN Europe
High copper consumption in the aquaculture industry
Institute of Marine Research
Copper from the aquaculture industry pollutes the seabed under and around the plant. There is still ...
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Jun 02 - 2022
EN Europe
Animal Conservation
Using the example of the efforts to protect the Mediterranean Monk Seal, this study demonstrates how citizen science and appropriate statistical modelling (here, occupancy modelling) can inform the conservation management of endangered marine mammals as they recolonize historical habitat.
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Documentary Films
Dec 31 - 2022
EN Europe
Chris Rutterford
Papa Westray is at risk from a new a massive new industrial fish farm in the bay of East Moclett. Changes are already seeing in the environment from current nets. The new fishfarm is planned for the as yet untouched East side of the island, it is a direct threat to the island’s pristine lagoon. The heart of what makes this Orkney island so special, a true jewel in the North.
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Research
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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Investigative Journalism
Apr 27 - 2023
EN Europe
The Mediterranean Monk Seal is Threatened by Poros Fish Farms
Katheti
The existence of top predators in the marine environment is very important for the protection and stability of ecosystems. Consequently, the Mediterranean monk seal is considered an indicator of the marine environment health. Its disappearance also means the beginning of the marine ecosystems degradation.
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Documentary Films
Aug 11 - 2019
EN (GR subtitles) Australasia
Saving Martha | Keep King Island Fish Farm Free
Patagonia
Tasmania is regarded as one of the wildest, most pristine states in Australia. In recent years however that reputation has been tarnished by the boom of the local salmon farming industry. With environmental regulations struggling to keep pace with the industry’s growth, the marine environments that host the industry have been significantly impacted and in some cases have approached collapse. Increased scrutiny of the industry – aided by the mobile nature of ocean pen farming – has forced operators to find new locations. When the industry set their sights on opening up a new territory on neighboring King Island – adjacent to the world-class waves of Martha Lavinia Beach – they were unaware they were also picking a fight with surfers worldwide.
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Opinion
Jul 29 - 2024
EN Global
There’s a New Reason to Save Life in the Deep Ocean
New York Times
Just as we are learning to appreciate the extraordinary service of creatures in the twilight zone, companies that manufacture feed for industrial fish farms, fertilizer and omega-3 supplements are preparing to exploit it. Right now nations are considering authorizing commercial fishing fleets to grind life in the twilight zone into fish meal, fertilizer and plant food. Before they move forward with these plans, it would be wise to hit pause so we can understand how that decision will affect our planet.
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Research
Jan 01 - 2022
EN North America
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
A 2022 special report from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, examining the threat of harmful algal bloom growth and the actions being taken to address it.
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Interactive / Website
May 01 - 2025
EN Global
Blue Marine Foundation
Blue Marine Foundation is a charity dedicated to restoring the ocean to health by addressing overfishing, one of the world’s biggest environmental problems. Dive into Blue Marine's new virtual reality experience to learn why ocean action is climate action. Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter.
Research
Apr 04 - 2019
EN Global
Organization & Environment
Voluntary standards certifying environmental qualities of labeled products have proliferated across sectors and countries. Effectuating these standards requires the collaboration among and between creators (typically firms and non-governmental organizations) and adopters (firms across a particular supply chain). However, the need to collaborate does not rule out the presence of controversy. Drawing on the case of the Marine Stewardship Council, a leading seafood standard to conserve the world’s threatened marine fauna, we analyze how this controversy, from economic and sociologic vantage points, impacts a sustainability transition. In essence, interest divergence drives controversy over standard design, which spurs controversy over standard effectiveness and prompts the proliferation of competing standards. Controversy is magnified by the opacity or non-transparency of the fields which such standards seek to govern. We conclude that, while interest divergence and field opacity entail inherent controversy over voluntary environmental standards, the impact of this controversy on sustainability transitions is typically predominantly positive.
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Investigative Journalism
Oct 03 - 2024
EN North America
What does the future of salmon farming look like in B.C.?
The Narwhal
The last open-net pen salmon farms in B.C. have until July 2029 to figure out a different way of doing business. Environmental advocates say the shift is long overdue but the industry warns the timeline is impossible.
By Shannon Waters. This story is a collaboration with the newspaper The Guardian.
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Investigative Journalism
Oct 17 - 2024
EN Global
Study reveals higher use of wild fish in aquaculture than estimated
Undercurrent News
The global aquaculture industry may be depending on significantly larger amounts of wild-caught ocean fish than earlier estimates suggested, according to a new study published in Science Advances on Wednesday (Oct. 16).
By Liza Mayer
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Research
Oct 16 - 2024
EN Global
How mariculture expansion is dewilding the ocean and its inhabitants
Science Advances
The world’s oceans are largely free from intensive farming, but momentum to intensify and expand mariculture—the cultivation of aquatic organisms in the ocean—is growing. Despite optimism that mariculture will create economic and nutritional benefits for humans, it can also generate a host of risks, including environmental degradation, harms to wildlife integrity and welfare, captivity effects, and shifts in how humans view the nonhuman world. Collectively, we refer to these four types of risks as 'dewilding.' In this systematic review, we searched Scopus and Web of Science for recent literature documenting mariculture’s dewilding impacts to organize and collate this evidence under one unified framework. We find that mariculture’s dewilding impacts are consistently documented, though often in isolation, and that captivity and conceptual dewilding impacts are recognized as potential harms far less than impacts on the environment and wildlife. Future work examining mariculture’s dewilding impacts will be paramount to guiding human decision-making and activity going forward.
By Becca Franks, Chiawen Chiang
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Research
Apr 15 - 2024
EN Global
Balancing protection and production in ocean conservation
Nature Portfolio
With the acceleration of the global biodiversity and climate crises, the need to protect and sustainably manage ocean resources has never been greater. However, the science needed to integrate ocean protection (through marine protected areas and OECMs) and sustainable production in the blue economy (particularly pelagic fisheries) remains underdeveloped and contested. The scientific divide and the knowledge gaps still remaining have created serious real-world challenges for practitioners seeking to reconcile protection and production approaches, and is hindering progress in achieving global conservation targets. Here, we identify the vital science necessary to bring together the 'twin pillars' of protection and production, integrating mutually reinforcing meaningful protections at scale, while also driving management of production systems to internationally accepted sustainability standards. The research community must rapidly develop this new horizon of ocean science – particularly in pelagic ecosystems - to aid countries and practitioners in achieving global conservation and sustainable development targets.
By John N. Kittinger, Randi D. Rotjan, Quentin Hanich, Brendon Pasisi, Constance Rambourg
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News
Nov 12 - 2024
EN Australasia
Proactive
The Australian Government has committed an additional $28 million to improve water quality in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour, aiming to safeguard the endangered Maugean skate, whose only known habitat lies within this unique ecosystem. The fate of the skate was brought to public attention by Woolworths shareholder activists who questioned the supermarket giant’s support of Tasmanian salmon products from farms in the harbour that have eroded the skate’s key habitat. By Susanna Nelson
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Opinion
Dec 01 - 2023
EN Europe
Article on TVXS on the sustainability of aquaculture in Greece
Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation
Exploring the dilemma between development in Greece of fish farming for economic gain versus environmental and health concerns.
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Opinion
Feb 01 - 2012
EN Europe
New Legislation Opens the Way for Intensive Aquaculture
Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation
Archipelagos Institute and the Municipality of Patmos have joined forces to strongly oppose the establishment of fish-farms in the seas of Patmos and the surrounding islands and islets. These potentially large scale fish-farms—made possible as a result of the new legislation passed on aquaculture—threaten to damage, if not destroy, the highly diverse and productive coastal ecosystems of the region. Intensive fish-farming—as practiced for the last couple of decades in the Greek seas—has already directly and negatively impacted the health and productivity ofseas in the region, and inevitably causes significant consequences on fisheries and tourism.
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Documentary Films
Jan 26 - 2023
EN South America
Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords
Mongabay
In recent years, Kawésqar communities have learned new forms of resistance to counter the proliferation of the salmon industry, which is harming the fragile ecosystem of their ancestral territory.
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News
Nov 22 - 2022
EN North America
Washington ban makes entire US West Coast off-limits for net-pen finfish aquaculture
Seafood Source
An executive order issued by the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on 18 November, 2022, will prohibit any net-pen aquaculture on state-owned aquatic lands. The move came in response to the 2017 collapse of a net-pen farm operated by Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke Aquaculture that led to the escape of hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon. It does not apply to hatcheries that have an environmental restoration mission or that boost native stocks.
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Research
Jan 01 - 2020
EN North America
Lousy Choices II: The Failure of Sea Lice Treatments in British Columbia, 2018-2020
Living Oceans Society
The salmon farming industry in British Columbia has invested heavily in vessels to deliver various treatments for salmon lice to their farmed stock. This report examines their performance to date and the implications for wild salmon.
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Investigative Journalism
Nov 06 - 2018
EN Global
Fish Farming at Industrial Scale: A Turkish Case Study
The Conversation
One of the world’s fastest-growing food production industries, aquaculture, is harming the marine environment and people’s lives with intensive fish farms.
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