Bugmeal: An Update
An interview with Dr. D'Abramo, the scientist responsible for looking at viability of insectmeal to replace bugmeal in farmed fish production.Posted on May 7, 2008 8:05 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shifting Baselines
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The Shifting Baselines Blog
Jennifer Jacquet is a Ph.D. candidate with the Sea Around Us Project at the UBC Fisheries Centre. She works closely with Dr. Daniel Pauly, who coined the term Shifting Baselines, the syndrome on which this blog focuses.
Josh Donlan is a conservation scientist and a Visting Fellow at Cornell University. He often hides out in the backcountry of the Teton Mountains, pondering bygone giant beavers and ground sloths. He also is also the founder and Director of Advanced Conservation Strategies and has a habit of restoring remote islands.
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New Projects & Publications
April 2008: Randy Olson and the Puget Sound Partnership release the flash video Shifting Baselines in the Sound.
April 18, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "Market Inefficiencies: Why Do We Waste Good Fish on Pigs?" at a forage fish workshop hosted by the Marine Fish Conservation Network.
April 15, 2008: Josh Donlan gives a invited talk in New York at Wildlife Conservation Society's annual meeting, Gateways to Conservation 2008: The State of the Wild.
April 5, 2008: Randy Olson delivers the Claude Bernard Distinguished Lecture at the American Physiological Society meeting in San Diego, titled, "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking substance in an age of style."
March 15, 2008: Josh Donlan is selected as a 2008 Kinship Conservation Fellow. He will join 17 others from around the world to explore business and economic tools for biodiversity conservation gains.
March 6-13, 2008: Josh Donlan co-directs a working group at the US National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara. The group is exploring biodiversity offsets and market-based instruments as solutions for biodiversity-fishery bycatch offsets.
Mar. 25-27, 2008: Randy Olson presents his films and his "Don't Be Such a Scientist" lecture on science communication at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.
Mar. 2008: Dr. Josh Donlan joins the Shifting Baselines blog.
Jan. 2008 Jennifer Jacquet launches the Eat Like a Pig Seafood Wallet Card
Recent Posts
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- Happy Birthday to Daniel Pauly
- The Forgotten Mollusk
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- New Sponge Discovered in Bering Sea
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Seafood:
One Year Later: Same Old Debate
Holy Macaroni (and I don't mean tuna noodle casserole)--this blog is one year old today! On April 8th last year, Randy Olson moved the Shifting Baselines blog to Scienceblogs and, for its launch, we staged a debate on whether or...Posted on April 8, 2008 3:51 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Should More Jellies Fill Your Belly?
The Economist published an article last week on jellyfish, which featured a fellow graduate student at the Fisheries Centre, Lucas Brotz. Can jellyfish really be the future of seafood? Jellyfish only provide about 4 calories per 100 g but, beyond...Posted on April 7, 2008 9:09 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More Jellies? Fill Your Belly
This week, the New York TImes ran the Op-Ed How to Handle an Invasive Species? Eat It by Taras Grescoe, who is author of a new book about ethically eating seafood. "One of the great unsung epics of the modern...Posted on February 22, 2008 8:30 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Superbowl Seafood
Lent is the biggest time of year for seafood sales (more on that soon) but, according to the industry supported news source IntraFish, the Superbowl unofficially launches the seafood selling season. Supermarket retailers everywhere offered plenty of seafood platters and...Posted on February 3, 2008 9:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Check It: Molded Surimi Lobsters
Molded surimi lobsters from Surimi & Surimi Seafood by J.W. Park (2005). We've talked about surimi before, but it's worth a reminder on the official definition: "Surimi is stabilized myofibrillar proteins obtained from mechanically deboned fish flesh that is...Posted on February 1, 2008 8:33 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sick on Sushi
When it comes to tuna, it's not all about us and our mercury levels, is it?Posted on January 30, 2008 9:06 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What About Feeding Bugs to Pigs?
Bugmeal to replace fishmeal? We know it's wasteful to grind up one-third of our wild caught fish into fishmeal to feed it to pigs, chickens, and fish. But hope for our tiny fish might lie in an unlikely source: bugs....Posted on January 25, 2008 8:16 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sushi Tuna Comes with Side Effects
The New York Times' Marian Burros has an article today on high mercury levels in tuna sushi: Recent laboratory tests found so much mercury in tuna sushi from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants that at most of them, a regular...Posted on January 23, 2008 8:50 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why Are We Feeding Good Fish to Pigs?
Each year, we grind up one-third of all ocean-caught fish to feed industrially raised pigs, chickens, and farmed fish. That's 30 million tonnes of fish turned into fishmeal and oil. What a waste. So tomorrow at the Science Bloggers conference...Posted on January 18, 2008 3:34 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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