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…
Posting may have slowed a bit, but this blog has managed to stay up and swimming for three years as of yesterday. In that time, I’ve made 290 posts, gotten 57,320 page views (roughly equivalent to a slow week at Deep Sea News, but I’ll…
One of the biggest challenges in conservation has been making the continued existence of a species or environment worth more than its value as food, real estate, or any other consumptive use. Like it or not, some policymakers and populations will not be convinced without…
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,…
Now that I’ve gotten your attention with that cringeworthy pun in the title, I’d like to put up a quick post on my overall thoughts on AES 2012 and the host city. This took a couple days due to a cancelled flight in Philadelphia and…
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.
Lots of cool talks today as this conference continues to be very good at keeping me busy. Check below the jump for the rundown on what I found interesting.
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…
By now it’s somewhat old news that a recent study by Gavin Naylor and other researchers from all over (freely available here) has revealed that there may be up to 79 previously undiscovered shark and ray species, which complicates conservation and fisheries management considerably. This…