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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · 1d

A moratorium⏸️ on #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ would provide the necessary time and space for nations to effectively coordinate, uphold their legal obligations and honour commitments to safeguard the ocean, its biodiversity and its resources for current and future generations.

🦑 www.rsgs.org/blog/deep-se...

Deep-Sea mining and ocean protection

Director of the Seabed Mining Project Julian Jackson looks at growing international efforts to protect the ocean, recent developments at the UN Ocean Conference, and the mounting debate over whether d...

www.rsgs.org

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · 7d

H.E. President Boakai of Liberia, on ocean protection at #UNGA:

"Deep-sea mining threatens the ocean floor before we even understand what lives there"

🦑https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/africa-is-leading-way-protecting-ocean-now-world-must-follow--ecmii-2025-09-30/

Africa is leading the way on protecting the ocean. Now the world must follow

The high sea waters off West Africa may seem remote to people reading this in London or New York. But these waters can impact the very weather patterns that determine whether crops grow in British fields or storms crash into the eastern seaboard of the U.S. They provide oxygen for every breath we take.

www.reuters.com

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · 12d

Listen up its @profcallum.bsky.social on the soon-to-enter-into-force BBNJ (or High Seas)Treaty

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PODCAST:
www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

High Seas Treaty to become international law

We'll sea if any more countries ratify...

www.thenakedscientists.com

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Sep 5

Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌:

18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean:
#DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️
#Marinescience 🦑
#scicom 🥼

📺: youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?

YouTube video by Scientific American

youtu.be

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 22d

Can you help me get to 10,000 views on our @sciam.bsky.social short film about the clash of scientists and corporations in the deep sea? 🪸

This would make our funder @pulitzercenter.org very happy. ☺️

It’s free to watch now on YouTube. We are half way to our goal! 📈

youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?

YouTube video by Scientific American

youtu.be

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Wendy Schmidt @wendyschmidt.bsky.social · Sep 4

More than 3 million people tuned into @schmidtocean.bsky.social’s expedition livestream off the coast of Argentina, sparking a dialogue about the value of scientific exploration. Watch the footage here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLt...

Celebrating the Deep | Underwater Oases of the Mar Del Plata Canyon

YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean

www.youtube.com

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Sep 5

Live this.

Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Sep 5

h/t @fieseler.bsky.social @sciam.bsky.social @drandrewthaler.bsky.social @jessicaaldred.bsky.social

cc @deepseaconserve.bsky.social @oceanaeurope.bsky.social @bluemarinef.bsky.social @greenpeace.org

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Sep 5

Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌:

18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean:
#DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️
#Marinescience 🦑
#scicom 🥼

📺: youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?

YouTube video by Scientific American

youtu.be

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Aug 6

The challenges of policing #DeepseaMining🪸⛏️ on the #Highseas🌊

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Navigating Challenges in Inspection, Compliance and Enforcement (‘ICE’) for Deep-Seabed Mining Beyond National Jurisdiction

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) and its member States are required to ensure compliance with the regulations they adopt to govern deep-seabed mineral activities beyond national jurisdiction, ...

link.springer.com

Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Jul 17

Two areas being targeted for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏ in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new scientific survey reveals.
🐬🐳🐋

🦑https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/06/25/greenpeace-survey-finds-beautiful-and-vulnerable-whale-species-in-areas-marked-for-deep-se

Threatened whale species found in areas earmarked for deep sea mining

Vulnerable marine life is getting caught in the crosshairs of our electrifying world, the new study suggests.

www.euronews.com

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Gina Fiore @marsecgina.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is a bit of an older story, but since today is the international fight IUU fishing day (though that should be every day) this seemed appropriate to share.

Some of these guys haven’t seen land in 10 years!!

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

On Chinese Tuna Boats, North Koreans Trawl for Cash for Kim Jong-un

www.nytimes.com

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · Jun 5

BREAKING 📢 The Government's own MPs and many others across parties call for a BAN on destructive bottom-trawl fishing in offshore marine protected areas🪸

This intervention from the Environmental Audit Committee shows that pressure is building 💥💥💥
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK MPs call for ban on bottom trawling in protected marine areas

Environment committee also wants to outlaw dredging and mining due to destructive effects on seabed and marine life

www.theguardian.com

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Jun 4

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the percentage of species fished beyond the sustainable limit stands at nearly 40 per cent and continues to grow.

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observer.co.uk/news/oceans/...

It’s not too late to save our blue planet | The Observer

At the UN Ocean Conference, governments should honour their conservation commitments

observer.co.uk

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · May 30

New Caledonia Approves 50-Year Moratorium on Deep-Seabed Mining

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www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/home/rese...

New Caledonia Approves 50-Year Moratorium on Deep-Seabed Mining

In the ocean depths off the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia, a vast array of marine species thrive in ecosystems found nowhere else. Deep-sea areas—200 meters (656 feet) or more below the o...

www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · May 23

“Deep sea mining and threats to ocean health and fisheries”

🪸⛏.…🐟

🦑 v4.infofish.org/index.php/ar...

Article II 3/2025 - DEEP SEA MINING THREATENS OCEAN HEALTH AND FISHERIES

v4.infofish.org

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High Seas Alliance @highseasalliance.bsky.social · May 23

#HighSeasTreaty News: Costa Rica 🇨🇷 is the latest country to officially ratify the #BBNJ Treaty at the United Nations taking us closer to the goal of 60 ratifications by #UNOC3 🌊

Follow progress & urge more nations to join the #RaceForRatification 👇 highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · May 19

Well-researched and accessible explainer about the politics of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ -and why this is an unnecessary threat to marine life🦑

🙏 take the time (1hr) to watch it all and SHARE widely

youtu.be/TacQgNeoPMM?...

The $16 TRILLION Race to Mine the Ocean

YouTube video by Johnny Harris

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · May 19

Well-researched and accessible explainer about the politics of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ -and why this is an unnecessary threat to marine life🦑

🙏 take the time (1hr) to watch it all and SHARE widely

youtu.be/TacQgNeoPMM?...

The $16 TRILLION Race to Mine the Ocean

YouTube video by Johnny Harris

youtu.be

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Dan Steadman @danjsteadman.bsky.social · May 12

Yellowfin tuna (fifth most fished species globally) gets half its food from the mesopelagic/twilight zone (200-1000m depth), with some getting up to 94%.

With calls to start fishing in these zones, this study notes the major effect this could have on tuna & their diets. news.mit.edu/2025/deep-di...

Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers find

MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.

news.mit.edu

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · May 12

Trump library?

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · May 11

The gift is bad enough on its own, but can we talk about how insane it is to use a foreign-gifted jet as *Air Force One*

Air Force One has a lot of capability that a luxury jet simply doesn’t, and that’s before we even consider the obvious spying/bugging/security concerns.

Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · May 8

Important paper outlining role of the biological carbon pump, #BCP linking protection of #MarineLife🦑 with the #ClimateAction

(This is what really worries me)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Global distribution, quantification and valuation of the biological carbon pump - Nature Climate Change

This study quantifies and values the carbon stored in the ocean due to biological processes. With uptake in the order of 2.8 Gt per year, valued at around US$1 trillion annually (at a carbon price of ...

www.nature.com

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Apr 23

"While most sea slugs use a raspy tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, the mystery mollusc uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans like a Venus fly trap plant."

(from last year, but still v cool)
🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

MBARI researchers discover remarkable new species of swimming sea slug • MBARI

A new nudibranch species is the first known to inhabit the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for life in this environment.

www.mbari.org

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Domino Albert 🌊 @dominocean.bsky.social · Apr 12

This #StarterPack is for world leaders heading to NY for the first #BBNJPrepCom.

Suit? ✅ Pen? ✅ Octavia? ✅ Now bring the political will to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty before #UNOC3

Time to take the #BBNJ Treaty out of the box.

#RaceForRatification @highseasalliance.bsky.social

lnkd.in/eFaQQz4i

starter pack to ratify the high seas treaty

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Ocean Equity Research @oceanequity.bsky.social · Apr 13

🌊 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! 🎧 'Negotiating the Ocean' – Ep. 3
🎙 Mini-Series on Stakeholders in BBNJ: PART 1 – Small Island States

💡 In this episode we speak with lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States about the challenges Small Island States face in shaping the treaty

Episode 3 - Small Island States

Negotiating the Ocean · Episode

open.spotify.com

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