August 18, 2020 By Sasha Chapman Hakai Magazine
Bluefin tuna are a luxury that feeds the egos of many, the bellies of few. Inside a Canadian fishery that pursues them.
A Tuna’s Worth
How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans
August 17, 2020 By Ian Urbina Yale Environment 360
After exhausting areas close to home, China’s vast fishing fleet has moved into the waters of other nations, depleting fish stocks. More than seafood is at stake, as China looks to assert itself on the seas and further its geo-political ambitions, from East Asia to Latin America.
Fishermen And Scientists Join Forces To Track Effects Of Climate Change
August 14, 2020 By Barbara Moran WBUR
Last October, lobstermen fishing off the coast of southern New England noticed the lobsters getting more active. That’s fairly common, says Mark Sweitzer, a commercial fisherman out of Port Judith, Rhode Island.
If You Unbuild It, They Will Come—The Fish, That Is
August 14, 2020 By James Prosek National Geographic
Maine pioneered dam removal to restore salmon runs. Now millions of fish, among them alewives, are swimming upriver again to inland spawning grounds.
Furry Engineers: Sea Otters in California’s Estuaries Surprise Scientists
August 14, 2020 By Isabelle Groc The Guardian
It is not just at sea that North America’s smallest marine mammals with a huge appetite are benefitting the ecosystem.