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Interesting sounding interview from Conservation International

Tomorrow,Tuesday,2/13,at 12:00 EST,Conservation International will be running the latest in a series of interviews with conservation experts and other stakeholders. Tomorrow’s interview is with Sheila McKenna,senior research scientist at CI’s Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. Ms. McKenna had the rough assignment of diving off New Caledonia to learn how the [...]

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Fisheries lessons from Nova Scotia

I was struck by this piece in today’s Washington Post about the death of fisheries in Nova Scotia. Its uglier than I had thought –to the extent that one nice boating past-time is shot:

“All but one of our seafood processing houses has shut down,”said Keith Merrill,skipper of Eastern Star,a wooden [...]

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Innovative approach to overfishing

Also worth a look is this story on NPR’s Morning Edition,from July 6th. It talks about a program run by The Nature Conservancy that buys out fishing licenses and then leases them back with provisions that ban destructive trawling. I like the idea –it isn’t a substitute for marine protected areas like we [...]

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