The secret to healthy and sustainable fish fingers – an expert explains

The Plymouth fish finger project will boost the amount of locally caught fish that makes it into the city’s supply chain rather than leaving the city to be eaten elsewhere.

Clare Pettinger, Associate Professor, Public Health Dietetics, University of Plymouth • conversation
Oct. 3, 2024 ~7 min

How history can teach us to prevent deaths at sea

Countless thousands of lives are lost at sea every year. New safety efforts could benefit from learning from historic and successful initiatives to reduce fatal accidents in the UK’s docks.

Guy Collender, Post Doctoral Senior Research Associate, Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures, University of Portsmouth • conversation
Sept. 26, 2024 ~6 min


We gathered centuries-old written records to show the seas around Wales once teemed with life

Research shows a long decline, but reveals what the seas could look like again in future.

Alec Moore, Lecturer in Marine Top Predator Conservation, Bangor University • conversation
Sept. 11, 2024 ~6 min

Whales are recovering from near extinction, but industrial fishing around Antarctica competes for their sole food source

The Southern Ocean’s krill-rich waters attract multiple species of filter-feeding whales – and, increasingly, fishing boats.

Matthew Savoca, Research scientist, Stanford University • conversation
Sept. 10, 2024 ~5 min

India’s new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in water flow every day

The hydropower dam is part of a huge effort to boost India’s homegrown energy. But it will radically disrupt the lives and livelihoods of indigenous communities in the flood plains downstream.

Parag Jyoti Saikia, Ph.D. Candidate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • conversation
Sept. 4, 2024 ~10 min

Why seagulls don’t want your chips as much as you might think

Seagulls have an innate preference for fish and mussels rather than your chips, research shows.

Neeltje Boogert, Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow, University of Exeter • conversation
Aug. 29, 2024 ~5 min

Sharks are taking a bite out of anglers’ catch in the Gulf of Mexico, but culling isn’t likely to help

Whether they’re going to cook a fish, have it mounted or just take a photo and then release it, anglers want more than a severed head. But with shark numbers rebounding, they’ve got competition.

James Marcus Drymon, Associate Extension Professor in Marine Fisheries Ecology, Mississippi State University • conversation
Aug. 20, 2024 ~9 min

How fly fishing strengthens our connection with wildlife and fosters conservation efforts

Human interactions with fish can result in three kinds of interspecies encounters that strengthen people’s connections with wildlife and natural environments.

Robin Canniford, Professor of Marketing, University of Galway • conversation
Aug. 19, 2024 ~6 min


Climate Change Affects Traditional Spearfishing

VOA Learning English • voa
July 18, 2024 ~7 min

Most marine protection measures are not working – a new, more flexible approach is needed

Experts have interviewed fishers, tourism operators and recreational sea users in 50 marine protected areas to see how well any negative human impacts are being reduced.

Peter JS Jones, Emeritus Professor of Environmental Governance, UCL • conversation
June 27, 2024 ~8 min

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