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Russian Fishing Threatens Antarctic Marine Reserve

Posted by bjb41 on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 in Wildlife Conservation

A vote on Tuesday on whether to declare a marine protection area over an Antarctic body of water seven times the size of Germany is hanging in the balance due to Russian and Ukrainian fishing interests, the head of a European delegation to the talks has told EurActiv. Representatives of 25 countrie...

Ocean Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods

Posted by ESKCSG on Sunday, 14 July 2013 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Finding a balance between ocean conservation and sustainability has led to a University of Queensland (UQ) scientist winning a prestigious international prize. Dr Carissa Klein, an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow with UQ's School of Biological Sciences, was awarded the $US25,00...

DNA Evidence Shows That Marine Reserves Help to Sustain Fisheries

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 28 May 2012 in Forestry

Researchers reporting online on May 24 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology present the first evidence that areas closed to all fishing are helping to sustain valuable Australian fisheries. The international team of scientists applied a forensic DNA profiling approach to track the dispersal pat...