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Following today's post by @InsideClimate on the appalling marine die-off & toxic seawater in Papua New Guinea, I found an excellent article by John Cannon dated 20Mar on Mongabay which is complentary (& was apparently omitted from the Mastodon feed @mongabay) […]

[6/6] Face à ce "far west" maritime, de nouveaux outils émergent avec Greenpeace, qui mobilise satellites, radars et smartphones pour mieux surveiller les pratiques. Ces innovations ouvrent la voie à une régulation plus fine des espaces maritimes. #geography #fisheries #overfishing #Senegal

Salmon Sample Management & Analysis Survey

Methods for salmon scales and otoliths vary widely across labs. 🧪 That’s a problem for data integration, training, and AI tools.

If you handle these, please complete our methods survey:
tinyurl.com/rda-salmonid...
Please forward this to salmon biologists world-wide.

#Salmon #Fisheries

How new fishing tech can reduce bycatch of turtles and other creatures https://arstechni.ca #marineconservation #deepseafishing #oceanography #syndication #fisheries #Science

Thomas Desvignes presenting his seminar "evolution and adaptors in Antarctic Notothenid fishes"

Sign at the entrance of Mississippi State university

Aquaculture pond

Aquaculture facility sign

Thank you MSU Mississippi State #Wildlife, #Fisheries, and #Aquaculture Department and Mike Sandel for hosting me for the Spring 2026 #Conservation Seminar Series! 🌎🐟🧪🇦🇶

It was great meeting everyone and visiting the campus and the Aquaculture facilities!

I hope to be back soon!

📢 NEWS [🎣 FISH] | New fishing tech can reduce bycatch of marine animals like turtles, whales, and dolphins, improving conservation efforts.
arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/how-new-...
#Fisheries #Opportunity

50 Years of Environmental Data Can Predict Health and Strandings of Sea Lions Pups in California - NOAA Fisheries (.gov) For more than 50 years, NOAA Fisheries has conducted vital research on seal and sea lion populations at a remote research station on San Miguel Island, California. The long-term data set provides clues to help us understand what environmental conditions lead to malnourished California sea lion pups and increased stranding levels. This information is important for managing their populations and helping rehabilitation centers prepare for periods when sea lion pup strandings may be elevated. Our research began on San Miguel Island in 1969 after scientists discovered a colony of northern fur seals breeding on Point Bennett the year before. This amazing uninhabited island lies 26 miles offshore of the California coast. It’s part of the Channel Islands National Park and is home to some of the largest populations of land-breeding pinnipeds in the world. Prior to this discovery, northern fur seals were last documented in California during the early 1800s—before their population was wiped out by seal hunters. Researchers began studying the new colony of fur seals along with California sea lions that also breed on the island. We conduct long-term studies on abundance, distribution, survival, reproduction, foraging ecology, health, and disease of northern fur seals and California sea lions...

50 Years of Environmental Data Can Predict Health and Strandings of Sea Lions Pups in California - NOAA Fisheries (.gov)
->NOAA Fisheries | More on "Sea lion health environmental data" at BigEarthData.ai | #Data #Fisheries #Health #Environment

The squid rush in the South Pacific is forcing regulators to act The South Pacific's regional fisheries regulator has taken modest steps to rein in one of the world's largest squid fisheries, but the hardest decisions are still to come.

A recent annual meeting of the #fisheries regulator for the South Pacific tackled a familiar challenge: how to manage one of the world’s largest #squid fisheries before mounting pressure turns it into a depleted one. news.mongabay.com/short-articl... via @mongabay.com

Cartoon showing Winston Peters, Luxon and Seymour next to each other, in front of a fishing boat. Peters says: NZ First listened. Luxon says: No National listened mire. Seymour says: ACT listened the most. A banner underneath has Shane Jones in a diaper with text reading DITCH THE PRICKS IN 26

Lol.
Must be an election coming up.

#NZPol #ditchThePricksIn26 #fisheries

Government of Canada announces management measures for the 2026 elver fishing season Newswire.ca Press Release.

The Government of Canada is committed to sustainable and orderly #elver #fisheries that support rural, coastal, and Indigenous communities. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/ma...

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I think it was me, personally, and my powerful posting that caused Shane Jones to tremble and back down. 😂

Still, the bill is a disaster and should be entirely rejected.

Fishing fight: Everyone in New Zealand vs Shane Jones […]

Cartoon. Title: “Messaging” The image shows NZ First MP Shane Jones holding a small fish, and looking towards NZ First leader Winston Peters who is out of the frame, and Jones is saying, “Hold on my Leader, matua Shane just has to deliver this undersized piscine to the PM’s visage” Meanwhile the fish is blowing bubbles and saying, “Help me”

The govt back-tracked on part of the Fisheries Amendment Bill – removing minimum size limits for commercial fishers – and then squabbled over credit.
But all the other issues remain.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #Fisheries #Environment #MarineLife

What happens when #fisheries scientists, economists, social scientists, mathematicians & #AI experts spend a few days together focused on 1 question:

Can AI deliver sustainable management advice, faster?

More than I could of hoped for. Publiaction coming soon.

Watch this space 👀 #STECF

A Look Back at the 2025 Cal-Neva American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting Every year, the California-Nevada Chapter of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) brings together a community of people who care deeply about native fish, watersheds, and the science that enhances our ability to understand and protect them. This year’s annual meeting convened in Chico in mid-February, drawing Tribal leaders, academics, students, agency staff, and conservation practitioners from California, Nevada, Oregon, and beyond. Under the theme “From Microscapes to Macroscapes: Integrating Knowledge Across Scales and Systems,” the event featured fascinating talks, poster presentations, field tours, a fish printing workshop, a salmon run, and much more. This conference is built around the idea that protecting fish means working at every scale, from single stream biology to whole watersheds to the web of communities that depend on them. The CalTrout team showed up in full force at AFS to share and discuss what we’ve been working on and to learn from some of the field’s sharpest minds. Here’s a deep dive into what each CalTrout team member brought to the table. Damon Goodman, Mount Shasta-Klamath Regional Director: Plenary Presenter Damon delivered one of the conference’s plenary presentations, using the Klamath River dam removal — one of the largest river restoration efforts in American history...

A Look Back at the 2025 Cal-Neva American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting
->California Trout | More on "Native fish conservation science meeting" at BigEarthData.ai | #Fisheries

'Rotten to the core': Backdown on baby fish plan fails to calm fisheries fury Critics say the Fisheries Amendment Bill still hands power to big quota owners.

#nzpol #fisheriesbackdown #fisheries #sustainability

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-jon...

While the government has done a U-turn on scrapping minimum size limits for commercial fishers, there are bigger problems with the #Fisheries Amendment Bill. 🎣
We are deeply concerned that this bill systematically weakens sustainability provisions in the current Fisheries Act, including:
#nzpol

U-turn on fish sizes not enough for some Groups still want the government to consider killing the Fisheries Amendment Bill entirely.

Backdown:U-turn on fish sizes not enough for some.
#MarineEcology #fisheries #SustainableFishing

www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Including fishers in closed season design is key to rebuilding… The Environmental Justice Foundation exists to protect the natural world and defend our basic human right to a secure environment.

Involving small-scale #fishers directly in designing and implementing #fisheries management measures is critical to restoring Ghana’s declining# fish populations and strengthening #foodsecurity. ejfoundation.org/news-media/i...

The human and historical tapestry of fisheries in the Danube delta

Our last article: The human and historical tapestry of fisheries in the Danube delta (Ștefan Constantinescu, Natasa Vaidianu, Petruța Teampău, Aurelian Giugăl & Priscila F. M. Lopes) rdcu.be/e9YtI

#Blacksea #Fisheries #Danubedelta

CUTS TO NMFS BUDGET CREATE NEW THREAT TO FISH STOCKS A few weeks ago, I found myself in a familiar place doing a very familiar thing—wandering around Capitol Hill, visiting Senate and House o...

This is an opinion piece— Charlie Witek always has well informed ones at least— but this is an important summary of how #NOAA #Fisheries will be approaching assessments now. Stocks will be put on a risk/value matrix before committing agency resources.

oneanglersvoyage.blogspot.com/2026/03/cuts...

Government to remove contentious clause in Fisheries Amendment Bill after backlash The Prime Minister stepped in and spoke with Minister in charge Shane Jones, and said he agreed to take out the sections of the Fisheries Amendment Bill that removes the minimum size limits.

Should hope so. I don’t know what they were thinking in the first place.

Government to remove contentious clause in Fisheries Amendment Bill after backlash
#fisheries #MarineEcology
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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On Fisheries news and the fight against regulatory capture, today:

Shane Jones drops plan to scrap legal fish size limits after backlash
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shane-jones-drops-pla...

And our response:

Rotten to […]

Installed this bad boy today. Getting ready for another field season🥳 #screwtrap #salmon #fisheries

Diving ecology of Procellaria #petrels highlights the need to combine bird-scaring lines, weighted branch lines, and night setting in pelagic longline #fisheries zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #seabirds #bycatch @wileyecology.bsky.social

Letter to Ministers ahead of Agriculture and Fisheries Council (30 March 2026) CAN Europe has written to Ministers ahead of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) on 30 March to take stock one year after the release of the Vision for Agriculture and Food. At a critical moment for EU agricultural and climate policy, CAN Europe urges ministers you to ensure that European farming is equipped to meet the challenges it is confronted with. The response to that reality is not to avoid action, but to design and fund a transition that protects livelihoods, secures incomes, and builds a resilient and sustainable sector for the future. It furthermore needs to contribute its fair share in line with the EU’s own commitments and the scientific evidence. As the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (ESABCC) has highlighted in its recent report, “many solutions, such as practices that increase soil carbon, dietary shifts, food waste reductions, agroforestry and agrivoltaics, can deliver benefits for both climate adaptation and mitigation, as well as broader environmental and socio-economic goals.” Read the letter to ministers in full...

Letter to Ministers ahead of Agriculture and Fisheries Council (30 March 2026)
->CAN Europe | More on "EU farming climate transition policy" at BigEarthData.ai | #Fisheries #Agriculture

📢 NEWS [🎣 FISH] | UN report warns migratory freshwater fish populations have dropped 81% due to warming, pollution, dams, and fishing.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/migratory-freshwater-fish
#Fisheries #Opportunity

Ecological and economic outcomes of area-based conservation and sustainable fisheries management in the Mediterranean Sea - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries Intergovernmental targets are reinforcing the need for more sustainable fisheries and more effective marine conservation. It is now urgent to understand how area-based conservation and sustainable fis...

🚨 Paper Alert! 🚨

#Ecological and #economic outcomes of area-based #conservation and sustainable #fisheries management in the #Mediterranean Sea.

📰 The article in #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

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Catches a fraction of historic levels.
Fish not growing to maturity.
Beloved species vanishing.

#BottomTrawling >45% of landings.
Habitat Destruction: #seagrass, #mangrove, reef.

Clear analysis by a Director-General of #Fisheries […]

FSI participated in the E3F event at ICAR-CIFE! 🌊 Dr. Manas Kumar Sinha briefed stakeholders on #PMMSY, #FIDF & #PMMKSSY schemes to empower farmers, SHGs & start-ups. From policy roundtables to student pitches, we're scaling the #BlueEconomy! 🇮🇳🐟 #Fisheries #Innovation

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What is all the outrage about the fisheries amendment bill? How much of a betrayal to people, planet and oceans are we talking about? Is Shane Jones really just a mouthpiece for industrial fishing companies? Will National ever grow a spine?

Read all about it in this blog post from #greenpeace […]