Jamie Gibbon

Could Artificial Intelligence Make It Easier and Safer to Monitor Fisheries? New A.I. analysis systems aim to count fish and identify species, streamlining the time-intensive process of recording commercial fishing activity

“It has big implications for everything from fisheries management and conservation to Indigenous nations’ access to data about their waters and resources.”

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Should this be a thing? Who am I missing?

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Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...

Getting closer and closer to this-

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The em dashes are a dead giveaway.

Seaweed Farming Areas along the west coast of North America face multiple threats that are altering the ocean ecosystems and ways of life for coastal communities. Significant declines in what once were considered ine...

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Click to learn more about Pew’s new work to help build an inclusive and sustainable Seaweed Farming industry in Alaska and British Columbia.

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Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or ...

Companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or more.

Critics say the efforts are moving too quickly and with too few guardrails

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NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’ An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

The annual SPRFMO meetings start next week. Will the US send a delegation?

www.wired.com/story/noaa-e...

‘Super pod’ of more than 1,500 dolphins spotted off California coast Whale watchers capture rare footage of miles-long cluster of dolphins ‘just having a great time’ A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of…

‘Super pod’ of more than 1,500 dolphins spotted off California coast

The frustrating thing is that the paper specifically recognizes that “lost yield” may be due to a specific policy choice to preserve ecosystem health, i.e. Menhaden in the US, but still chooses to “penalize” the US for that choice.

How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.

In the years after WWII, Japanese whalers killed thousands of whales to feed their hungry, war-ravaged country. The baleen from each whale was saved and carted to an offsite Smithsonian storeroom, where it sat forgotten for decades... 🧵

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Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction | CNN A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year a...

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1995 was a perfect year to be a teenage baseball fan in Cleveland.

It almost made up for having to be a Browns fan.

Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries Global tuna fisheries are valued at more than $40 billion, with the majority of this value derived from purse seine fisheries. Recently created large-scale marine protected areas are potentially big e...

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New paper. Also tickled to see the 1st sentence of the abstract cites a stat that @jgibbon.bsky.social et al developed with funding from a grant I (ok, Pew) gave in a past life. No one knew the global value of tuna til we asked! #fisheries #marineconservation

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Welcome to the party! The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has become the fourth tuna RFMO to adopt electronic monitoring standards. A big step forward for oversight and transparency.

Officer, Ocean Governance The Environment Portfolio For more than 30 years, Pew has been a major force in engaging the public and policy makers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing...

Great opportunity to work on #Deepseamining 🪸 ⛏️ and #BBNJ 🦑 Treaty

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WCPFC makes commitments on crew conditions and electronic monitoring The Commission agreed to implement measures aimed at ensuring fair pay, safe and decent working conditions, and protections against forced labour and other abuses.

The WCPFC made a critical effort to modernize oversight of the world's largest tuna fishery.

The Commission has adopted interim electronic monitoring standards - after ten years of effort - which will help improve oversight of the region's valuable fisheries.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

WCPFC adopts first ever crew labor standards, fails to regulate transshipments The WCPFC annual meeting made progress on electronic monitoring and labor standards but delayed updating transshipment management

The WCPFC annual meeting made progress on electronic monitoring and labor standards but delayed updating transshipment management

www.undercurrentnews.com/2024/12/03/w...

Four steps to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale. 1) Start with basic shapes. 2) Add flipper shapes, mouth and eye. 3) Add facial features and markings. 4) Add details and shading.

Learn how to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale at the Science Museum of Virginia. Sad thing is that enough kids draw these each day to represent the entire population (c. 375) 😔
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‘Momentous’ sustainable fishing rules adopted for Atlantic Ocean swordfish In the late 1990s, swordfish had been so overfished in the North Atlantic Ocean that its population faced the possibility of collapse. The dire situation sparked boycotts and conservation campaigns in...

A good summary by @mongabay.bsky.social on what happened at this year's annual #ICCAT meeting in Cyprus
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In Western and Central Pacific Ocean, Fisheries Managers Must Step Up The tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific Ocean represent more than half the global tuna catch and are among the most valuable in the world, worth US$21 billion each year. But with such he...

The WCPFC has been working for nearly a decade to develop EM standards. At their meeting this week, countries should:

1) Adopt robust EM standards and minimum data fields

2) Require that members meet ALL the EM requirements in order to receive quota increases

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A small but mighty list of voices in fisheries conservation, from all sides of the conversation. Add your name please if I missed you and you’d like to be added.

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NOAA Advances Efforts to Identify Aquaculture Opportunity Areas Identifying areas that may be suitable for sustainable aquaculture, strengthening American food security and coastal economies.

NOAA Fisheries has released two draft programmatic environmental impact statements (PEIS) to support the identification of proposed Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in Southern California and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Kelp vodka wins two awards at 2024 Alaska Symphony of Seafood

Uncharted Alaska Distillery won both the Beyond the Plate and Most Innovative categories with their Holdfast Kelp Vodka, which is produced from Alaskan sugar kelp harvested by local company Seagrove Kelp.

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Should this be a thing? Who am I missing?

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Leaders fail to address overfishing near Europe at ‘fraught’ international meeting Mackerel and herring in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, near Europe, have been dramatically overfished for many years, endangering the stocks and creating potential knock-on effects for marine mammals a...

A fantastic write-up on a difficult meeting of the North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission by @mongabay.bsky.social. Work to do on reversing mackerel and herring declines, taking more account of ecosystem needs and improving how observers are involved in meetings: news.mongabay.com/2024/11/lead...

ICCAT adopts new swordfish strategy, but China, Japan block shark finning reform The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas wrapped up its annual meeting in Cyprus, marking a mixture of progress and setbacks in fisheries management and conservation efforts

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ICCAT adopts swordfish management plan, but Japan and China block efforts to strengthen shark finning ban

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In the Absence of Cruise Ships, Humpbacks Have Different Things to Say | Hakai Magazine Researchers don’t know exactly what the whales were saying, of course, but the discovery that the proportions of call types changed is intriguing on its own.

🐳Here's some stories about humpback whales to get you through hump day:

When the Alaskan cruise industry came to a halt during the pandemic, researchers took the unique, quiet opportunity to study humpback calls.

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In Western and Central Pacific Ocean, Fisheries Managers Must Step Up The tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific Ocean represent more than half the global tuna catch and are among the most valuable in the world, worth US$21 billion each year. But with such he...

WCPFC has spent the past 10 years developing EM standards, which will provide guidelines for countries and vessels that want to use EM

It is time for WCPFC to finish the job. Next week members should step up and adopt robust EM standards.

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