So I decided last night to have a crack at a grilled octopus salad. Off to the fish market where I bypassed the baby and medium octopi for the big mamas, and bought a single octopus which weighed a bit over a kilo (our fishmonger removes the head and the beak – if yours doesn’t,...
In the 1980s and 1990s, there had been a major black market for undersized sole, and the fishing sector had fought hard to ban this practice. Many fishers feared that the LO would bring this practice back. To prevent a black market from developing, the government had summoned to destroy ...
and the reason for the killing.I would never knowingly harm an animal – including a fly or an ant or a spider – if I didn’t feel there was a practical imperative for doing so. Killing cockroaches to prevent a cockroach infestation of my house feels to me like justifiable homicide....
Why are insects important to the food chain? How does predation cause stability in an ecosystem? How does ocean acidification affect the marine food web? How can habitat be managed to prevent overpopulation? How do organisms interact in the mountain ecosystem? How does food waste affect biodiversi...
of processed meat, sweets, savory snacks, and sugar-sweetened beverages, there is no maximum consumption boundary suggested for these food groups (22), and therefore an upper constraint equal to the respective mean habitual subpopulation intake was established to prevent increases in these food ...
can be prosecuted, but legal victories are uncertain, and they happen after the damage has been done. These shortcomings of contemporary environmental governance—sparse data; unenforceable regulations; and patchy, sporadic enforcement that punishes but fails to prevent environmental harm—can be overcome...
(NGO) committed to transparency in commercial fishing that was founded by Google, Oceana, and SkyTruth — published the results of its investigation into Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999’s journey to Ecuador. Using the reefer’s Automatic Identification System data, which ships normally use...
Melting ice from land glaciers may raise the ocean level leading to changes in the ecosystems near water environments as the fresh water water from the glacial melting changes the salinity of water resources where it comes on land. Climate change has led...
Councils [58]. In essence, special interests can dominate these councils and undermine long-run sustainability goals at the expense of promoting more immediate financial goals. This would help to prevent ‘regulatory capture’ by industry while still advancing participatory co-management [58] (p. ...
Decades of harvesting the seas have disrupted the delicate balance of marine ecosystems—despite global efforts to mitigate the damage.