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Jennifer Jacquet is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Dr. Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. As a kid, she read 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and would come to discover that while those 50 things were indeed simple, saving the Earth was not.
August 14, 2009: Dan Ax at Avukado Productions makes the following short video for Guilty Planet:
July 30, 2009: Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation: Fish as Food in an Age of Globalization at the University of British Columbia.
June 2009: In press at Oryx: "Conserving Wild Fish in a Sea of Market-Based Efforts"
June 2009: Published at Conservation Biology: What Can Conservationists Learn from Investor Behavior?
May 27, 2009: Talk titled "Historical Renaming and Mislabeling of Fish" given the Oceans Past II conference in Vancouver, B.C.
May 24, 2009: Talk at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington, D.C.
March 24, 2009: Dave Beck and I showcase our jellyfish burger in Scientific American's photo gallery:
March 24, 2009: Talk at the Student Conference for Conservation Science at Cambridge University, UK.
March 14, 2009: Talk at the Kettle's Yard Problemathon for Cambridge's Science Festival.
March 3, 2009: Talk titled "Guilt v. Shame in Market Based Efforts to Save Our Fish" at the Max Planck Institute in Ploen, Germany.
February 27, 2009: Talk at Fauna & Flora International.
November 2008: A new study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
November 2008:
Category: Oceans
My former supervisor/now boss (and OG of overfishing) has a piece out in The New Republic with the wonderfully garish title of Aquacalypse Now. He explains how the fishing industry can contribute a minuscule amount to the GDP of advanced...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 1:20 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Guilt
Why the MSC is a flop.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:08 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Seafood
At Tokyo's fish market, fish are smaller, farmed, and less tasty.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:40 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Stylized Substance
We like tension. It makes for good stories. But it has been recognized that the fair and balanced approach to science news (and otherwise) can be detrimental. As Al Gore pointed out in An Inconvenient Truth, climate scientists, as represented...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 12:15 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food Systems
After considering it only as "an absurd metaphor", a real jellyfish burger is now being sold in Japan.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:50 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food Systems
The End of the Line, a documentary on global overfishing sparked by Charles Clover's book by the same title, has sparked many public conversations about global overfishing. The latest discussion takes place today at SEED magazine, where several fisheries experts...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 3:43 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Consumed
As a way of counteracting some of the work by Environmental Working Group, the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, and Oceana to inform consumers about the health risks of consuming too much seafood, a new website was just launched called HowMuchFish.com,...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:39 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Food Systems
More on the reasons why we should give up seafood altogether.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:25 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Oceans
We need groups arguing against the consumption of seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:17 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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