Advancing marine conservation
Jain, N. (July 26, 2021) . Millions of seahorses caught as bycatch in Indian shores. MongaBay India. (Article) https://india.mongabay.com/2021/07/millions-of-seahorses-caught-as-bycatch-in-indian-shores/… Read more
This #WorldOceanDay take some time to learn about one of the most common and most destructive types of fishing used in the oceans today – bottom trawling – and why it is time to #EndBottomTrawling wherever it occurs. A thread. @ProjectSeahorse @IUCNSeahorse (1/9) pic.twitter.com/bTywX4xEJx — Sarah Foster (@sjanefoster) June 7, 2021
I am truly thrilled that more than 1400 conservation agencies and organizations have just adopted new policies that had their genesis with our Project Seahorse team. This huge alliance is really going to move us forward – on fisheries, bycatch, ecosystem restoration and on conserving seahorses and their relatives. It’s a bit tricky to explain …
by Riley Tjosvold (Cross-posted from UBC Oceans) A recently published paper by researchers at Project Seahorse, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) tracked the changes in China’s bottom trawl fishing policies from the 1950s to today. By analyzing policy changes over time, the researchers were able to highlight the difficulties of managing the bottom …
By Roshni Mangar, MSc student Since I can remember, I have been fascinated with the marine environment and all of the organisms on my island, Mauritius, and specifically the world of marine mammals. Over the years, my obsession with Orcas shifted to the complex relationships between humans and the ocean. These existing complex relationships kindled …
Williams, R. (27 June, 2020) Bottom trawling – annihilation fishing that clear-fells the ocean floor. On The Science Show with Robyn Williams, ABC News, Australia. (Video) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/bottom-trawling—annihilation-fishing-that-clear-fells-the-oce/12395520… Read more
When I discuss the need to manage seahorse catch with government officials, they often tell me that fishers only report getting a few seahorses per trip, so what’s the big deal? The big deal is that there are A LOT of fishing trips. So many trips that catching just a few seahorses per trip adds …
We recently set out on an amazing race, criss-crossing the Philippines by plane, boat, bus and car in less than 3 months, to uncover seahorse trade and exploitation. We discovered that 1.7+ million seahorses are caught per year in the Philippines, compared to over 4 million per year 20 years ago. Despite international trade (CITES) …
Cannon, J. C. (Oct 17, 2018) Scientists map the impact of trawling using satellite vessel tracking. Mongabay Series: Oceans. Mongabay. (Article) https://news.mongabay.com/wildtech/2018/10/vessel-tracking-data-maps-out-the-impact-of-trawling-around-the-world/… Read more
By Lily Stanton and Do Huu Hoang (Part three of a three part series) Almost 20 years after first documenting the extent of seahorse trade in Viet Nam, we returned to see what, if anything, has changed. You may remember that exports of Hippocampus kuda were suspended in 2013 by the Convention on International Trade …
