Dr Janne Haugen
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Fisheries Ecologist, PhD 🦈🐟 Ecosystem-based management, sharks, fisheries, sustainable seafood🇧🇻🇺🇲 Yoga, cats, spearfishing 🐈‍⬛ 📙My book on Marine EBM is available for pre-order now! https://tinyurl.com/MarineEBMBookHaugenLink jannehaugen.com
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📣 Four+ years in the making, reviewed by 33 scientists, preceded by three papers and presentations on five continents 🌍 — my book on Marine Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) will be released on October 1st, 2025! 📘🐟🧪🌊🦑
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Enough of you asked me about this that I wrote some brief thoughts on Ocean Ramsey's particular brand of pseudoscientific nonsense. I believe this addresses almost all of the frequently asked questions I receive, but as always I am happy to answer serious questions asked in good faith.

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What Ocean Ramsey does is not shark science or conservation: some brief thoughts on “the Shark Whisperer” documentary
Netflix has a new (sarcastic air quotes) “documentary” out about Ocean Ramsey, who longtime readers and followers know is a serial wildlife harasser who also coordinates massive online …
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📣 Four+ years in the making, reviewed by 33 scientists, preceded by three papers and presentations on five continents 🌍 — my book on Marine Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) will be released on October 1st, 2025! 📘🐟🧪🌊🦑
Flyer with book cover, title, author information, table of contents, and a short summary of the book. Click the link in the thread to read the flyer information online.
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Together with my coauthor, Jason Link, we cover not only why EBM is necessary, but also how it can be applied. This book aims to contribute to the development and implementation of EBM, refute myths, and encourage action 🌊⚖️
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I’m also incredibly excited (and thankful!) to have the brilliant Mark Dickey-Collas write the foreword for this book🙏📖
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🎓 Students and anyone affiliated with a university or institution that subscribes to Elsevier can access the digital version for free via Scopus
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💥 Book Addicts & Fish Fanatics (or “friends & family” as Elsevier calls them) get 20% off pre-orders with the code: BAFF20 🐠🧠🦑🐟
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CERF is seeking the next Reviews & Perspectives Editor for Estuaries and Coasts! This is your opportunity to shape the future of coastal science publishing and supporting innovation in research!
Learn more & apply by 16 July at https://bit.ly/4kYv9kj
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Ocean14Capital & the Blue Marine Foundation were founded by the same people. BMF funded the premiere & events related to the film & used it to launch their anti-trawling campaign. People associated with Ocean are also associated with Ocean14Capital. All the info & connections are on their websites.
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What an encounter! Awesome shots!
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I do always wonder about this kind of thing. Sometimes when you follow the money, the rabbit hole is wild! Thanks for sharing this tidbit.
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3/4 It is not told from a neutral perspective (like a documentary). It's funded by lobbyists with an agenda. I.e., Ocean is partly funded by Ocean Capital 14, a venture capital group who invests in aquaculture (a competitor to wildcaught fisheries). That's fine, most people have an agenda #OceanChat
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Exactly, and indigenous knowledge and say is so important. Telling people who heavily rely on the ocean for protein to simply give up fishing, or ignoring their knowledge, experience, and participation in a program is NOT the way to help the problem. #OceanChat
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Managing social-ecological systems is complex and requires participation from all stakeholders. Forced top-down approaches tend to be less successful. You need to manage social-ecological systems in an ecosystem-based way with all stakeholders included. #OceanChat
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Thanks for organizing, David!
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4/4 But it's important to remember that when drawing conclusions from Ocean. You have only been shown one point of view in this opinion-piece film #OceanChat
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3/4 It is not told from a neutral perspective (like a documentary). It's funded by lobbyists with an agenda. I.e., Ocean is partly funded by Ocean Capital 14, a venture capital group who invests in aquaculture (a competitor to wildcaught fisheries). That's fine, most people have an agenda #OceanChat
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2/4 The way they use sound and light to convey the heros (narrators) and villains (industrialized trawlers) in this film is just like a hollywood blockbuster. This is not a neutral documentary #OceanChat
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1/4 My takeaways: Some beautiful footage, some cool facts, a lot of sensationalism and one-sided views presented. Let's not forget that this is an entertainment film featuring a celebrity for a streaming service. #OceanChat
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As marine ecosystems are interconnected and complex, loss of biodiversity if often due to a compound of reasons. Some of them are ocean acidification, pollution, overfishing, habitat loss, increasing temperatures leading to species distribution shifts, more competition, etc.
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We all want functional and resilient ecosystems that can provide essential ecosystem services for environmental, economic, and social wellbeing. Therefore will always be tradeoffs but treating issues as black/white & banning one stakeholder group (e.g., bottom trawling) isn't the way #OceanChat
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Also, it's hard to know whether MPAs actually achieve their conservation objectives. Area closures and banning fishing are not the only tools available for the protection of biodiversity and sustainable ocean use. #OceanChat
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Managing social-ecological systems is complex and requires participation from all stakeholders. Forced top-down approaches tend to be less successful. You need to manage social-ecological systems in an ecosystem-based way with all stakeholders included. #OceanChat
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The point is, there are nuances to every case, and a one size fits all type of approach might do more harm than good to the local communities who rely on the MPA and surrounding areas. #OceanChat
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2/2 If the MPA has rocky habitat and the objective is to protect that habitat, then yes, banning bottom trawling in that area will help achieve that objective #OceanChat