#NorseTalk Dr. Norse: Want to slow population growth? Educate young women in developing countries, give them economic opportunities
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#NorseTalk @SkyTruth is using satellites to find where fishing boats are but shouldn't be.
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#NorseTalk Shoutout to @SkyTruth !
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#NorseTalk Reagan's "trust but verify" doctrine useful for global marine conservation too.
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#NorseTalk Audience ?: What do we do about mercury in fish? Dr. Norse: eat less high-trophic-level fish, stop burning coal
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Does anyone have any questions for Dr. Norse? If you get them to me in the next couple of minutes I'll ask for you. #NorseTalk
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#NorseTalk Check out http://GlobalOceanRefuge.org for more info on the GLORES system
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#NorseTalk Dr. Norse wants his granddaugher (adorbs pic) to see living healthy oceans in her lifetime.
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#NorseTalk Wants to use national pride and competitiveness to get countries to make the "biggest" and "best" marine protected areas
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#NorseTalk it's relatively easy to protect animals that don't move (i.e. coral), but what about highly migratory species?
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#NorseTalk @SavingOceans president @SaltyLance just announced the "global ocean refuge system (GLORES) to prevent mass extinction in the sea
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#NorseTalk On land we protect essential plants (Svalbard seed vault). What can we do to do the same for the oceans?
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#NorseTalk Large MPAs are more effective, but even small ones can be helpful at restoring populations of some species
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#NorseTalk Dr. Norse worked with President Bush to create the PapahaImNotEvenGonnaTry National Monument, a U.S. no-take MPA near Hawaii
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#NorseTalk "Places where you're not allowed to kill stuff are a powerful tool for conservation"
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#NorseTalk Many marine protected areas only restrict a few activities like oil drilling. Still allow fishing
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#NorseTalk on protecting critical habitat: "give animals a safe place to live, and they'll do what they do best"
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#NorseTalk The ocean looks homogeneous from the surface, but there are some places that are really important for biodiversity
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#NorseTalk "Panicking will not save the oceans. We've got to be smart, we've got to be strategic, we've got to act quickly"
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#NorseTalk Shoutout to @ElizKolbert 's "The sixth extinction" book!
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#NorseTalk Every past mass extinction (there have been 5) have wiped out about 1/2 of extant species. Recovery took millions of years
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#NorseTalk "I can't spend my time worrying about climate change deniers. Ignorance is curable. Stupidity is not".
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#NorseTalk Much of the world's fishing is still illegal, unreported and unregulated. There's also a lot of unintentional bycatch
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#NorseTalk Oceanic whitetip #sharks have declined 99.7% since the 1950's (hear that #2014MMM )? Shoutout to @baumlab #SharkScience
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#NorseTalk According to @FAOfish , 32% of all global marine fish stocks are "overfished, depleted or recovering". 53% are "fully exploited"
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#NorseTalk First we emptied lakes and rivers, then coastal seas, then high seas, now extremely remote areas through overfishing
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#NorseTalk "If we want to save the oceans, we need institutional change of the right kind".
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#NorseTalk Biodiversity isn't just about saving some species, it's about "saving the fabric of nature".
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#NorseTalk Dr. Norse worked as a "staff ecologist" for the Carter administration, and defined biodiversity as white house conservation goal
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#NorseTalk "People love marine life!" (photo of kids at an aquarium)
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