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Tag Archives: fishing
Jeremy Jackson describes “How we wrecked the ocean”
Eminent coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson recently gave a talk at TED called How we wrecked the ocean, which presents a popular version of his research on the long-term human impact on the ocean.
Posted in Ecological Economics, Greenlash, Regime Shifts, Visualization
Tagged coral reef, fishing, Jeremy Jackson, ocean, TED, video
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Roving bandits, piracy, and fishing
Piracy has been in the news a lot over the past few years. Less noticed is the impact of’ roving bandit fishing fleets from the rich world that outfish local fisherman. The associated press reports on a perverse consquence of … Continue reading
Posted in Ecological Management
Tagged Clive Schofield, fishing, Kenya, piracy, roving bandit, Somalia
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More on Iceland and the Financial Crisis
Michael Lewis writes vividly about Iceland, fishing, and its financial crisis in his Vanity Fair article Wall Street on the Tundra: Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are … Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged financial crisis, fishing, Iceland, Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair
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Avoiding regime shifts is difficult
Conservation magazine’s Journal Watch Online returns from a long hiatus to report on an interesting new paper on the problems of detecting regime shifts by resilience researchers Oonsie Biggs, Steve Carpenter, and W.A. “Buz” Brock (2009. Turning back from the … Continue reading
Posted in Regime Shifts
Tagged detection, fishing, Oonsie Biggs, PNAS, Steve Carpenter, W.A. Brock
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Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene
In a commentary Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs in PLoS Biology coral reef ecologists Nancy Knowlton and Jeremy Jackson write: Imagine trying to understand the ecology of tropical rainforests by studying environmental changes and interactions … Continue reading