Things had been going pretty well for U.S. dogfish fisheries. In June 2010, after half a decade of an essentially closed fishery, the U.S. Atlantic stock was considered rebuilt. Shortly after, representatives of the fishery petitioned and successfully received sustainability certification from the Marine Stewardship…
This weekend I’ll be making my first official public appearance since AES back in July, and this time it’ll be a bit of a change of pace. I’ll be heading down to sunny Miami for the inaugural Oceans edition of ScienceOnline. When not lounging on…
Today was the fourth and last day of presentations for this year’s AES. The real shark week ended with a bang, featuring this year’s only concurrent pair of shark sessions. As a result, I definitely missed some talks I wanted to see in order to…
Here it is, the first official recap post of this year’s AES. I lack both a smartphone and the Twitter vigor of Dave, so I generally throw all the things that piqued my interest into one big post at the end of the day. It’ll…
You may have noticed that it’s been two and half months since something went up here. I can assure you, I’ve been a busy little grad student in that time. One of the reasons is that I’ve been working on a couple of field/lab projects…
It’s been quite the week for sharks and the fisheries that target them. First, ICCAT managed to disappoint on shark management (largely through the actions of Canada of all places) but finally started following scientific advice on bluefin tuna quotas. Then, in better news, the…
That ever-reliable settler of internet arguments, Wikipedia, defines ecosystem-based management as “an environmental management approach that recognizes the full array of interactions within an ecosystem.” At heart, this type of management is supposed to keep all the cogs of an ecosystem moving so we can…
After nearly two years of assessments and public comment, the U.S. Atlantic spiny dogfish fishery has officially been certified as Sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council. This makes it the second shark or ray fishery ever to get MSC certification, and is the first multi-gear,…
The last day of AES talks wrapped up today. It’s always a little melancholy to see this conference end, but one must get back to real life sometime. Here are the highlights from Day 4.
What a busy day. I’ve only got a little bit of time to get this up before I have to head over to the poster session, and I saw a lot of very good talks today. Keep following #AES2012 on Twitter to keep up with…