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Trawling Our Love Away

Trawling Our Love Away

An excerpt from the book The Perfect Protein: The Fish Lover’s Guide to Saving the Oceans and Feeding the World, by Andy Sharpless and Suzannah Evans, was featured on Scientific American with the title ”Net Loss: How We Continually Forget What the Oceans Really Used to Be Like“. The excerpt covered the history of bottom trawling, a fishing method […]

 

World Turtle Day

World Turtle Day

Did you know that the Pacific leatherback sea turtle swims 6,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to feed on jellyfish that are abundant along the California coast during summer and fall months? Today is World Turtle Day and although it is a celebration for all species of turtles on land and in the sea, I’m taking this […]

 

Remotely FishWise: San Francisco to Santa Cruz

Remotely FishWise: San Francisco to Santa Cruz

It’s only week two of my CBE fellowship here at FishWise, a non-profit sustainable seafood consultancy, and I’m already a horribly negligent blogger… Where to begin?! My project this summer is producing a white paper on social issues in aquaculture and fisheries. I knew my work would involve Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) fishing and traceability, […]

 
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