An Ode to Obama: Give Up Fish (for Me)
Category: Communicating
A poem pleading Obama to give up seafood.
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 7:04 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Shifting Baselines
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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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November 2008 Jennifer Jacquet is lead author of the study In hot soup: sharks captured in Ecuador's waters published in Environmental Sciences.
November 27, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "Why Consumers Alone Can't Save Our Fish" at 1pm at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.
August 2008: Josh Donlan is co-author on a new paper titled Integrating invasive mammal eradications and biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch: conservation opportunities and challenges for seabirds and sea turtles published in Biological Invasions.
August 2008: Jennifer Jacquet is co-author on a new paper titled Funding Priorities: Big Barriers to Small-Scale Fisheries published in Conservation Biology.
August 2008: Josh Donlan is an author on a new paper in Journal of Applied Ecology titled Diversity, invasive species, and extinctions in insular ecosystems.
July 26, 2008: Randy Olson's film Sizzle premieres on the East Coast at the Woods Hole Film Festival in MA.
July 24, 2008: Josh Donlan gives a talk on biodiversity offsets to The Alcoa Foundation and the Alcao Intalco Aluminum Plant in Bellingham, Washington.
July 22, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "A Way Forward in a Sea of Market Based Initiatives to Save Wild Fish" at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA.
July 19, 2008: Randy Olson's film Sizzle premieres on the West Coast at Outfest in Hollywood, CA.
July 17, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "In Hot Soup: Shark's Captured in Ecuador's Waters" at the Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting in Chattanooga, TN.
July 9, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet gives the talk "Flawed Data, Reef Fisheries, And Food Security: A Close Inspection Of Marine Fisheries Catches in Mozambique, Tanzania, Fiji, And The Solomon Islands" at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
June/July 2008: Josh Donlan attends training for his Kinship Conservation Fellowship in Bellingham, WA.
May 2008: Josh Donlan is an author on a new paper in Ambio titled High impact Conservation: Invasive Mammal Eradications from the Islands of Western Mexico.
May 15, 2008: Jennifer Jacquet reviews Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood at the Tyee.
April 2008: Trade Secrets: Renaming and Mislabeling of Seafood by Jennifer Jacquet and Daniel Pauly is published in Marine Policy.
April 2008: Randy Olson and the Puget Sound Partnership release the flash video Shifting Baselines in the Sound:.
Mar. 2008: Dr. Josh Donlan joins the Shifting Baselines blog.
Jan. 2008 Jennifer Jacquet launches the Eat Like a Pig Seafood Wallet Card
Seafood:
Signs of Overfishing in a New Name
Category: Seafood
The mislabeling and renaming of fish is a problem. It means that consumers are often paying more than they should for their seafood. Plus, it impedes the consumer's ability to make environmentally or health conscious choices. I also really like...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 7:32 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Kalamari Rings Ain't Calamari
Category: Seafood
Say you're in Australia. You go to the store. You pick up some Kalamari crumbed seafood rings. The 'K' throws you but you suspect the product is still calamari, which is very popular in your country. Hopefully, you even know...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 4:28 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Funding Priorities: Big Barriers to Small-scale Fisheries
Category: New Research
Focusing on subsidies rather than consumers likely to be better for fish and for small-scale fishermen A couple weeks ago, Daniel Pauly and I got the paper Funding Priorities: Big Barriers to Small-scale Fisheries published in the journal Conservation Biology....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:57 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Disgraceful Waste: Fish Discards Caught on Film
Category: Seafood
A British trawler was caught on film dumping tons of cod and other white fish overboard. This wasteful practice of discarding 'bycatch' is the result of catching fish that are too small (according to regulations) or unmarketable. The film caused...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 10:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Rarity + Snobbery = Increased Demand
Category: Seafood
Check out some research that was presented (that I unfortunately did not get to see) at the Society for Conservation Biology conference in Chattanooga, TN. Here is what the scientist did: he gave consumers the option of eating caviar from...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 8:25 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More on Unsustainable Seafood
Category: Seafood
Check out some thoughts on overfishing and sustainable seafood (including my own) compiled by Greenpeace here....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:22 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Pigs and Chickens Eat More Seafood Than Japan
Category: What the...?
Believe it. Pigs and poultry gobble down 14 million tonnes of seafood (more than twice the amount the Japanese consume) every year because we feed it to them. Read my full post on the subject at The Gristmill....
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 5:16 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Verdict on Sustainable Seafood: Too Confusing
Category: Seafood
Mark Powell at Blogfish points to an article in last week's Miami Herald where a reporter had to bow out of his search for sustainable seafood because it was too much work and too expensive. The messages are, indeed, too...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 11:45 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Greenpeace Chides Retailers for Buying Bad Seafood
Yesterday, Greenpeace-USA released a report criticizing supermarkets for buying unsustainable seafood. Greenpeace-Canada also released a similar report, which I spoke about this morning on CTV news. As I said in the interview, if we want sustainable seafood to become something...
Posted by Jennifer L. Jacquet at 6:11 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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