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False Killer Whales, Truly at Risk from Pacific Longlines

By On February 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Andy Read is a marine mammologist and Duke Univeristy Marine Lab professor. He’s also part of a team of experts that convened last week in Honolulu. The new Take Reduction Team (TRT) is assessing the high mortality rate of false killer whales in the Pacific longline fishery. The team’s assessment is long overdue.

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Alaskan King salmon fishery collapses

By On October 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Must be global warming… (just kidding, but it could be).   From todays NYT:

By STEFAN MILKOWSKI

MARSHALL, Alaska — Just a few years ago, king salmon played an outsize role in villages along the Yukon River. Fishing provided meaningful income, fed families throughout the year, and kept alive long-held traditions of Yup’ik [...]

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Management effectiveness of the world’s marine fisheries

By On July 6, 2009 · 2 Comments

UPDATE: Camilo Mora, the lead author of the study, posted a comment about the test of expert opinions.   “I would like to clarify that one of the tests we did in this paper was to compare the expert’s opinions with actual empirical data collected by one of us (i.t. Tony Pitcher). We found that [...]

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