Month: January 2024

ByTim VernimmenPublished January 11, 2024In 2019 at least 79 million sharks died in fisheries, and at least 25 million of those belonged to threatened species—numbers that have stayed steady or even risen in the past decade.Compared to 10 years ago, fewer of those sharks died because people cut off their fins and threw them back…

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Regina Barber and Geoff Brumfiel of Short Wave about a new moon mission, a global map of fishing ships, and mysterious rings of radio waves.

In 2018, on November 15, requiem and hammerhead sharks landed in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. (Image credit: Nidhi Gloria D’Costa) An estimated 80 million sharks are dying in fisheries each year despite global regulations aimed at protecting them from finning, scientists have discovered. In a study published Jan. 11 in the journal Science, researchers used data from…

Essex-Built and Out O' Gloucester: The Legendary Schooners that Fished the Northwest Atlantic in the Age of Sail, a new book by Willard E. Andrews, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. The fast, able, and beautiful Essex-built schooners that fished out of Gloucester during the latter half of the nineteenth century and early…

Fishing boats off the coast of Angola. (Image credit: Getty Images) Earth-observing satellites have helped detect previously unmapped global fishing vessels, revealing nearly 75% of the world's industrial activity at sea was "hidden" from public view. Using satellite imagery from 2017-2021, vessel GPS data and machine learning software, a team led by the Global Fishing Watch…

Traveling through the mountains and up the coast allowed us to take in the scale of what happened. Every village we passed was damaged and appeared eerily empty of people. The tsunami warning forced extensive evacuations, and few people had yet to return. Officials have urged people to stay away from their homes for now because…

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Access to financing, the support of a peer group, and a general awareness of environmental problems are all factors that make it more likely a fisher will switch to using eco-friendly gear, a new study shows.The findings come from a three-month survey of nearly 650 blue swimming crab fishers on the north coast of the…