Up to 20,000 dead fish, other animals washed up on Nova Scotia coast
The carcasses of thousands of sea creatures have mysteriously washed up on the western coast of Nova Scotia, and the Canadian authorities said they have no idea why.
Investing in fisheries management improves fish populations
Successful fisheries management can be best achieved by implementing and enforcing science-based catch or effort limits, research shows.
Mystery of hundreds of thousands of dead fish on Cornish beach solved, UK
The mystery of why hundreds of thousands of fish were found washed up on a Cornish beach over the weekend has been solved: they were dumped by a trawler that caught too many sardines in shallow water.
Government’s ambitious 2030 land reclamation plan to cost HK$400 billion
The government’s grand long-term blueprint for Hong Kong, which envisions a 1,000-hectare man-made island in the middle of the sea, could cost over HK$400 billion, a concern group estimated.
“Resilience area” created for Alaskan natives along Bering Strait
President Obama signed an executive order Friday to create a Northern Bering Sea Climate Resilience Area that will focus “locally tailored” protections on marine resources. The newly created resilience area covers 112,300 square miles and stretches from north of the Bering Strait to north of Bristol Bay.
$100 Billion Chinese-Made City Near Singapore To Be Built
The scale of the projects is dizzying. Country Garden’s Forest City, on four artificial islands, will house 700,000 people on an area four times the size of New York’s Central Park.
Land reclamation plan endangers protected marine area; Malta
Extensive land reclamation is being proposed in an area already known to be rich in sea grasses that are protected by the European Union’s Habitats Directive and which is adjacent to a marine conservation area.
World’s largest marine park created in Ross Sea in Antarctica in landmark deal
EU and 24 countries sign long-awaited agreement to protect 1.1m sq km of water in Southern Ocean.
Can seaweed farming save Indonesian fishermen?
For centuries seaweed has been a farmed product, but it wasn’t until the 1930s that the use of carrageenan – a seaweed-derived thickening agent – turned commercial. In Indonesia, seaweed farming has been growing over the last three decades.