Advancing marine conservation
In 2000, I was given one of the best awards in marine conservation, a Pew Fellowship. It came with generous funding, which we applied towards work on non-food fisheries and towards obtaining the first global export controls on marine fishes (for seahorses) under CITES. It also came with the most wonderful gift of a meeting each year. But not your ordinary meeting…
Project Seahorse is delighted to announce the launch of our new, improved iSeahorse.org website – our pioneering citizen engagement tool that gathers information about seahorses while building a community of committed contributors who are empowered to take action for seahorses and marine conservation. Anyone can join. Whether you’re a diver, fisher, scientist, or just on …
Mowbray, S. (Dec 1, 2017) Catch-all fisheries are squeezing Asia’s seahorses. Mongabay Series: Oceans. Mongabay. (Article) https://news.mongabay.com/2017/12/catch-all-fisheries-are-squeezing-asias-seahorses/… Read more
Gell, F. (Nov 17, 2017) A moment that changed me: seeing my first moth fish. The Guardian. (Article) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/17/moment-that-changes-me-moth-fish… Read more
This story begins in 1995 with Amanda Vincent and Marivic Pajaro uncovering a global seahorse trade of more than 15 million animals per year. Until then Viet Nam was reportedly a supplier of dried seahorses but little was known about the nature or magnitude of the trade, not to mention the status of the seven species of seahorses found along the shores of Viet Nam.… Read more
I was excited to be the opening keynote speaker at the Student Conference on Conservation Science in Bengaluru/Bangalore. Hundreds of aspiring conservationists from South Asia and a few from farther afield gather each year to share professional hopes and nurture ambitious dreams. I’d already played a similar role with the sister SCCS meeting in Cambridge, UK a few years back and knew just how much fun it was to be plunged into this swirling, and very clever, mass of aspiration and enthusiasm.… Read more
By Amanda Vincent Today we had a chat with hope. We were at a dry and somewhat desolate landing beach up the coast from Tuticorin when along came a conservation hero. I didn’t see anything particularly meaningful at first. Pairs of people – man and woman, old and young, adult and child – grabbed meagre shelter …
Oppili, P. (Oct 14, 2017). Endangered seahorse ends up as poultry feed, fish food. The Times of India (Delhi). (Article) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/endangered-seahorse-ends-up-as-poultry-feed-fish-food/articleshow/60998451.cms… Read more
By Amanda Vincent I’m not sure whether to be enthralled or appalled by the trawl fisheries of southern India. Probably both. I’ve spent the past week hanging about fishing communities of Tamil Nadu, guided by our wonderful Indian PhD student, Tanvi Vaidyanathan. It’s been a considerable education, even for somebody used to Asian fisheries. I’ve been …
Story originally posted on UBC News and UBC’s Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries
A new UBC study has found that small-scale fisheries may have a much larger impact on ocean ecosystems than previously thought, due to a lack of data on their development over time.… Read more
