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A framework for more agile and sustainable crustacean fisheries in Asia

By EDF Oceans / Published: February 28, 2023

By Ming Sun, Stony Brook University, and Adityo Setiawan, Environmental Defense Fund

From warming ocean waters to increased acidification and rising sea levels, it’s no wonder that fish are on the move to find suitable habitat! Climate change is creating dramatic shifts in species’ distributions and affecting their productivity. Fisheries managers who try to ensure sustainable fishing efforts find their jobs more difficult as fish are changing how and where they live. Now more than ever, managing mobile fish stocks is even more of a challenge. Read More »

Also posted in Seafood / Tagged adaptive management, China, Climate change, crabs, crustacean fisheries, Fishery Management, Indonesia, Lobster, Philippines, Shrimp | Comments are closed

Finding the lowest-hanging fruits to improve crustacean fisheries with limited data and capacity

By EDF Oceans / Published: February 21, 2023

By Nathan Willse, Stony Brook University, and Harlisa Harlisa, Environmental Defense Fund

Crustacean fisheries offer enormous opportunities as high-value and potentially resilient alternatives to over-exploited finfish stocks. However, rising global demand for crustacean products and rapid environmental change call for an increased focus on the sustainable management of crustacean stocks. While landings, the catch received from a harvester, of crustaceans are on the rise globally as traditional finfish landings are declining, effective fishery management is hampered in many geographies by limited data availability and capacity for data collection and processing.

Also posted in Science/Research, Seafood / Tagged China, Crustacean, Crustacean Task Force, Fisheries, Indonesia, Philippines, United States | Comments are closed

Building international collaboration in a remote world: Finding the resilience within to build resilience in crustacean fisheries

By EDF Oceans / Published: February 14, 2023

By Jeff Young, Kristin Kleisner and Yong Chen

As climate change and overfishing continue to impact coastal communities worldwide, crustacean fisheries provide an opportunity for hope. Crustacean fisheries, consisting of species such as crabs, shrimps, prawns and lobster, provide a critical source of food, jobs, and income for coastal communities worldwide. These species tend to reproduce quickly and therefore have traditionally been considered more resilient to overfishing, which has contributed to crustaceans representing an increasing share of the global catch in many parts of the world. With overfishing and climate change continuing to pose threats to fisheries worldwide, crustaceans provide a critical opportunity for diversification and greater stability in livelihoods, assuming they can be managed well. Read More »

Also posted in Science/Research, Seafood / Tagged China, collaboration, Crustacean, Crustacean Task Force, Fisheries, Indonesia, learning network, Philippines, resilience, United States | Comments are closed

What the BBNJ negotiations could mean for the ocean’s ‘twilight zone’

By EDF Oceans / Published: January 9, 2023

By Vrinda Suresh, Julia Mason and Doug Rader

During the last two weeks of August 2022, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Conference, or IGC5, to develop a new treaty to protect biodiversity in offshore waters, called the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, or BBNJ Agreement. The BBNJ Agreement specifically addresses high seas waters, which include all areas more than 200 nautical miles from coastlines and fall outside the management authority of individual countries. The high seas make up nearly 60% of Earth’s oceans. Read More »

Also posted in Policy / Tagged Climate change, Fishery Management, twilight zone | Comments are closed

Looking to the oceans for answers to the climate crisis

By EDF Oceans / Published: November 11, 2022

Three new reports examine the potential of blue carbon pathways to act as natural climate solutions.

By Kristin Kleisner, Monica Moritsch and Jamie Collins

Also posted in Science/Research / Tagged Blue Carbon, Climate change, climate-resilient fisheries, collaboration, Conservation, Domestic, Marine Protection, Oceans, sustainability, technology | Comments are closed

Tech solutions to meet the challenges of a changing ocean

By EDF Oceans / Published: September 13, 2022

By Janelle Hangen and Huff McGonigal

Climate change will continue to have serious impacts on oceans, fish stocks and fishing communities. If we continue to emit carbon at the current rate, landings of sustainably caught fish will decline by as much as a 25% by the end of the century due to shifting stocks and decreases in productivity. To meet this challenge, a suite of new and emerging technologies can help fishers, managers and communities to fish smarter and to become more climate-resilient in an uncertain future. EDF’s new publication, Technologies for Climate-Resilient Fisheries, identifies four primary climate challenges and the technologies available to meet them. Read More »

Also posted in Science/Research / Tagged Abalobi, Aruna, Berring Data Collective, Climate change, Coastal Communities, fish stocks, Fisheries, Navcast, NOAA, Oceans, resilient fisheries, technology, Woods Hole Group | Comments are closed