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The Sea We Breathe
Interactive / Website
May 01 - 2025
EN Global

The Sea We Breathe

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.

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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Climate change
Industrial Fishing Undermines World’s Greatest Carbon Sink, Experts Warn
Investigative Journalism
October 24 - 2024
EN Global

Industrial Fishing Undermines World’s Greatest Carbon Sink, Experts Warn

DeSmog

Damage to oceans is releasing vast amounts of CO2, despite efforts to market fish as a sustainable food. By Sophie Kevany
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Marine Protected Areas / Climate change / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Fish Meal / Fish Oil Processing / Legislation / Marine fauna
Farmed Salmon Isn’t 'Mediterranean'
Opinion
October 09 - 2024
EN Global

Farmed Salmon Isn’t 'Mediterranean'

Medium

How the world’s healthiest diet is used to prop up a troubling fish. A special guest post by Rauch Foundation's Eva Douzinas on Paul Greenberg's (The Four Fish) Medium page.
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Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants) / Marine Protected Areas / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Hunger / Nutrition / Tourism / Investment and subsidies / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Salmon / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?
Investigative Journalism
October 03 - 2024
EN North America

‘I won’t believe it until I see it happen’: Could a ban on sea farms save Canada’s salmon?

The Guardian

A row over sea life, lice and livelihoods is dividing communities as the government plans to end open-net pen farming in British Columbian waters. By Shannon Waters
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Marine Protected Areas / Legislation / Salmon / Infrastructure (Cages or processing plants)
Too Much of Our Seafood Has a Dark Secret
Opinion
August 11 - 2024
EN Global

Too Much of Our Seafood Has a Dark Secret

New York Times

Explores the factors a consumer should consider when purchasing seafood. By Paul Greenberg and Carl Safina.

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Marine Protected Areas / Biodiversity loss / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Hunger / Nutrition / Investment and subsidies / Labor / Fish in / Fish Out (FIFO) / Value chain / IUUs (illegal unreported and unregulated) / Legislation / Bivalves / Low trophic-level fish / Plant-based (e.g. seaweed or kelp) / Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) / Salmon / Shrimp
Balancing protection and production in ocean conservation
Research
April 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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Marine Protected Areas / Marine fauna / Animal Ethics / Investment and subsidies
Monachus monachus, Mediterranean Monk Seal
Research
December 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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Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Climate change / Legislation
Fish farms in Poros: Why the residents don't want them
Investigative Journalism
October 24 - 2023
GR Europe

Fish farms in Poros: Why the residents don't want them

Solomon

A quarter of the island in the Saronic Gulf is set to be dedicated to fish farming, increasing its activity by 670%. The municipal authorities and residents — who disagree with the plan — fear that the character of the island will change forever. 

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Marine Protected Areas / Investment and subsidies / Tourism / Legislation / Poros / Sea Bream / Sea Bass / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde)
Greek island's fierce opposition to the uncontrolled growth of fish farming
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Investigative Journalism
August 22 - 2023
EN Europe

Greek island's fierce opposition to the uncontrolled growth of fish farming

Le Monde

Designated by the Greek government as a strategic area for aquaculture, Poros could soon see a quarter of its coastline invaded by fish breeding ponds. Local residents are up in arms against the project, which they believe will negatively impact tourism.
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Inorganic waste (e.g. plastics) / Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas / Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Tourism / Sea Bream / Sea Bass
Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords (1)
Documentary Films
January 27 - 2023
EN South America

Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords

One Earth

Sixty-seven salmon farms exist within Kawésqar National Reserve in southern Chile, an area that formed part of the Kawésqar Indigenous people’s ancestral lands, and another 66 concessions are under consideration there.
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Marine Protected Areas / Small-scale fishers / Legislation / Salmon
Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords
Documentary Films
January 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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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Marine fauna / Marine Protected Areas / Small-scale fishers / Legislation / Salmon
Ocean Desolation: How Fish Farm Pollution Is Killing Marine Life in Greece
Investigative Journalism
August 16 - 2021
EN Europe

Ocean Desolation: How Fish Farm Pollution Is Killing Marine Life in Greece

The Ferret

Researchers reported about a “desolation scenario” around sea bream and sea bass farms in Western Greece.
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Organic waste (e.g. feed or feces) / Chemicals (e.g. Formaldehyde) / Parasites (e.g. sea lice) / Biodiversity loss / Marine Protected Areas / Sea Bass / Sea Bream
Seagrass mapping in Greek territorial waters using Landsat-8 satellite images
Research
October 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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Marine Flora (e.g. Poseidon meadows or seaweed) / Marine Protected Areas
Monitoring methods for Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows in Provence and the French Riviera
Research
January 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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Marine Protected Areas / Legislation

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