EU Committee Votes in Favor of Increased Fisheries Regulation

EU Committee Votes in Favor of Increased Fisheries Regulation

The European Parliament’s Fisheries Committee has voted overwhelmingly in favour of an agreement to revise the EU’s Fisheries Control Regulation, which can increase transparency around catches at sea and combat illegal activities and hidden overfishing. Five years...
Featured Connection: Ocean Sustainability

Featured Connection: Ocean Sustainability

Approaching the topic of “ocean sustainability” can be a rather sensitive endeavor. One reason for this is that there doesn’t seem to be a single accepted definition of the term “sustainability.”  So, depending on your scientific, political, or environmental...
Sustainable Products from Ocean Plastic

Sustainable Products from Ocean Plastic

It’s no secret that the ocean is suffocating with plastic waste. Some scientists predict that by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean. We discovered one company – #tide ocean material – that is collecting ocean-bound plastic waste in Southeast Asia...
Featured Connection: Aquaculture

Featured Connection: Aquaculture

The Business of Feeding the World According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, approximately 4.5 billion people get a significant source of their daily protein intake from fish. But that doesn’t mean billions of people are going down to...
Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool

Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool

EJScreen is an EPA’s environmental justice mapping and screening tool that provides EPA with a nationally consistent dataset and approach for combining environmental and demographic socioeconomic indicators. EJScreen users choose a geographic area; the tool then...