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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Aug 7

“It has big implications for everything from fisheries management and conservation to Indigenous nations’ access to data about their waters and resources.”

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Could Artificial Intelligence Make It Easier and Safer to Monitor Fisheries?

New A.I. analysis systems aim to count fish and identify species, streamlining the time-intensive process of recording commercial fishing activity

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Nov 22

Should this be a thing? Who am I missing?

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Apr 24

Getting closer and closer to this-

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Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing

WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Apr 22

The em dashes are a dead giveaway.

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Apr 16

Our new project website is live!

Click to learn more about Pew’s new work to help build an inclusive and sustainable Seaweed Farming industry in Alaska and British Columbia.

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Seaweed Farming

Areas along the west coast of North America face multiple threats that are altering the ocean ecosystems and ways of life for coastal communities. Significant declines in what once were considered ine...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Mar 24

Companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or more.

Critics say the efforts are moving too quickly and with too few guardrails

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Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in the ocean could lock away climate-warming carbon dioxide for centuries or ...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Feb 7

The annual SPRFMO meetings start next week. Will the US send a delegation?

www.wired.com/story/noaa-e...

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jan 28

‘Super pod’ of more than 1,500 dolphins spotted off California coast

Whale watchers capture rare footage of miles-long cluster of dolphins ‘just having a great time’ A miles-long cluster of dolphins has been filmed leaping and gliding across Carmel Bay off the central coast of California, forming an unusual “super pod” of…

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Jan 16

The frustrating thing is that the paper specifically recognizes that “lost yield” may be due to a specific policy choice to preserve ecosystem health, i.e. Menhaden in the US, but still chooses to “penalize” the US for that choice.

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · Jan 16

In the years after WWII, Japanese whalers killed thousands of whales to feed their hungry, war-ravaged country. The baleen from each whale was saved and carted to an offsite Smithsonian storeroom, where it sat forgotten for decades... 🧵

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How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic

A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Jan 13

Alaska’s $49M mariculture cluster creating opportunities for Native communities

A $49 million federal program expands Alaska's mariculture sector while increasing tribal participation, combining traditional harvesting practices with new business opportunities in kelp and shellfis...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Jan 6

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Motorcycle-sized tuna fetches more than $1 million at Japan auction | CNN

A bluefin tuna about the size of a motorcycle has been sold for $1.3 million (207 million yen) at Japan’s most prestigious fish market, setting the second highest price on record during its new year a...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Jan 2

1995 was a perfect year to be a teenage baseball fan in Cleveland.

It almost made up for having to be a Browns fan.

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Katie Matthews, PhD @katieocean.bsky.social · Dec 17

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New paper. Also tickled to see the 1st sentence of the abstract cites a stat that @jgibbon.bsky.social et al developed with funding from a grant I (ok, Pew) gave in a past life. No one knew the global value of tuna til we asked! #fisheries #marineconservation

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Evidence of spillover benefits from large-scale marine protected areas to purse seine fisheries

Global tuna fisheries are valued at more than $40 billion, with the majority of this value derived from purse seine fisheries. Recently created large-scale marine protected areas are potentially big e...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Dec 5

Welcome to the party! The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has become the fourth tuna RFMO to adopt electronic monitoring standards. A big step forward for oversight and transparency.

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Julian Jackson @allatsea.bsky.social · Dec 4

Great opportunity to work on #Deepseamining 🪸 ⛏️ and #BBNJ 🦑 Treaty

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Officer, Ocean Governance

The Environment Portfolio For more than 30 years, Pew has been a major force in engaging the public and policy makers about the causes, consequences, and solutions to some of the world’s most pressing...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Dec 4

The WCPFC made a critical effort to modernize oversight of the world's largest tuna fishery.

The Commission has adopted interim electronic monitoring standards - after ten years of effort - which will help improve oversight of the region's valuable fisheries.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

WCPFC makes commitments on crew conditions and electronic monitoring

The Commission agreed to implement measures aimed at ensuring fair pay, safe and decent working conditions, and protections against forced labour and other abuses.

www.rnz.co.nz

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Dec 3

The WCPFC annual meeting made progress on electronic monitoring and labor standards but delayed updating transshipment management

www.undercurrentnews.com/2024/12/03/w...

WCPFC adopts first ever crew labor standards, fails to regulate transshipments

The WCPFC annual meeting made progress on electronic monitoring and labor standards but delayed updating transshipment management

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Mike O'Brien @obrien.page · Nov 29

Learn how to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale at the Science Museum of Virginia. Sad thing is that enough kids draw these each day to represent the entire population (c. 375) 😔
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Four steps to draw a North Atlantic Right Whale. 1) Start with basic shapes. 2) Add flipper shapes, mouth and eye. 3) Add facial features and markings. 4) Add details and shading.

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Nikolas Evangelides @evangelides.bsky.social · Nov 26

A good summary by @mongabay.bsky.social on what happened at this year's annual #ICCAT meeting in Cyprus
news.mongabay.com/2024/11/mome...

‘Momentous’ sustainable fishing rules adopted for Atlantic Ocean swordfish

In the late 1990s, swordfish had been so overfished in the North Atlantic Ocean that its population faced the possibility of collapse. The dire situation sparked boycotts and conservation campaigns in...

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Nov 25

The WCPFC has been working for nearly a decade to develop EM standards. At their meeting this week, countries should:

1) Adopt robust EM standards and minimum data fields

2) Require that members meet ALL the EM requirements in order to receive quota increases

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In Western and Central Pacific Ocean, Fisheries Managers Must Step Up

The tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific Ocean represent more than half the global tuna catch and are among the most valuable in the world, worth US$21 billion each year. But with such he...

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Gina Fiore @marsecgina.bsky.social · Nov 24

A small but mighty list of voices in fisheries conservation, from all sides of the conversation. Add your name please if I missed you and you’d like to be added.

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Nov 22

NOAA Fisheries has released two draft programmatic environmental impact statements (PEIS) to support the identification of proposed Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in Southern California and the Gulf of Mexico.

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/media-releas...

NOAA Advances Efforts to Identify Aquaculture Opportunity Areas

Identifying areas that may be suitable for sustainable aquaculture, strengthening American food security and coastal economies.

www.fisheries.noaa.gov

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Nov 22

Uncharted Alaska Distillery won both the Beyond the Plate and Most Innovative categories with their Holdfast Kelp Vodka, which is produced from Alaskan sugar kelp harvested by local company Seagrove Kelp.

www.seafoodsource.com/news/foodser...

Kelp vodka wins two awards at 2024 Alaska Symphony of Seafood

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Jamie Gibbon @jgibbon.bsky.social · Nov 22

Should this be a thing? Who am I missing?

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