“More than three-quarters of marine mammal and sea turtle populations have significantly increased after listing of the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), according to a study published January 16 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Abel Valdivia of the Center for Biological Diversity in California, and colleagues. The findings suggest that conservation measures such as tailored species management and fishery regulations, in addition to other national and international measures, appear to have been largely successful in promoting species recovery, leading to the delisting of some species and to increases in most populations.”
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Fonte: PLOS One, 16 de janeiro de 2019
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“A scientific study published in the journal Global Change Biology suggests snoek (Thyrsites atun) can recolonize the marine area of the Beagle Channel and South-Western Atlantic waters, an area in the American continent where this species competed with the hake (Merluccius sp.) to hunt preys in warmer periods.
“Hundreds of thousands of whales and dolphins are killed each year as bycatch in commercial fishing. Many times that number are injured or crippled in their encounters with fishing equipment. Yet unless their deaths pose a species-level threat, the welfare of bycaught cetaceans is rarely a factor in evaluating a fishery’s sustainability.
“The oceans are facing a perfect storm of threats that will destroy marine life unless the government takes urgent action, a new report has warned.
“Why has the world continued to increase consumption of plastic materials when at the same time, environmental and human health concerns over their use have grown?
“O protocolo, rubricado por Adiatu Nandigna, ministra das Pescas guineense, e Omar Gueye, ministro das Pescas e Economia Marítima do Senegal, vai balizar as normas de aplicação prática de uma convenção no domínio das pescas existente entre a Guiné-Bissau e o Senegal, desde 1978.
“Voluntary commitments by states, governmental or nongovernmental organizations, and other actors, aiming to deliver outcome-oriented activities, have become a well-recognized mechanism in international sustainability policy (1–3). For ocean governance, the calling for and pledging of voluntary commitments could become a game changer, with two major international processes harnessing such voluntary contributions in recent years: the Our Ocean conferences, an annual high-level series initiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in 2014, and the United Nations (UN) Ocean Conference, which took place for the first time in June 2017. Such calls and commitments provide opportunities to raise awareness, promote engagement, and catalyze political will for action on the part of states as well as public and private sectors. However, without effective and transparent review systems, it is difficult to link pledged commitments to actual implementation.”
“Indonesia, the world’s largest tuna fishing nation, has pulled out all the stops in recent years to transform the health of an industry blighted by depleted stocks and illegal poaching.
“No âmbito das obrigações do IPMA, a Divisão Recursos Marinhos (DivRP) do IPMA é responsável pelo acompanhamento do estado de exploração dos recursos pesqueiros explorados pela frota nacional do Continente que opera em diversas áreas geográficas. Os investigadores e técnicos da DivRP desenvolvem atividades de recolha e análise de dados de biologia e da dinâmica das espécies e sobre a atividade pesqueira decorrente da sua exploração comercial, o que permite proceder à avaliação do estado de exploração dos stocks e ao aconselhamento científico para gestão dos respetivos stocks e ainda contribuição científica para a definição de planos de gestão das pescarias.”
“Using a new type of fishing gear for swordfish in California can help protect nontargeted species—including whales, dolphins, sea lions, sharks, and sea turtles—while keeping the commercial fishery economically sustainable.
“Salary: Starting at €3.600 gross/month
“If you ever see a sea turtle when you’re in Sabah and think nothing of sitting on one -think again.
“Seabirds are like feathered buoys. Gently rafting on the ocean’s surface, these birds go with the flow, making them excellent proxies for tracking changes in a current’s speed and direction.
“The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has always existed in uneasy tension between those who want to protect whales and those who also want to eat them. Late last year, the tension finally snapped with the announcement from Japan that it is leaving. This was accompanied by a pledge that the nation will resume commercial whaling in the Pacific Ocean, and end its controversial research whaling programme in Antarctic waters.
“Coastal development and sea level rise are causing the decline of tidal flats along the world’s coastlines, according to research that has mapped the ecosystems for the first time.
“O MedAves Pesca é o mais recente projeto da Sociedade Portuguesa para o Estudo das Aves, que pretende trabalhar com pescadores de Peniche para juntos desenvolverem formas de reduzir o número de aves que morrem devido às capturas acidentais nas artes de pesca.
“No nation on Earth is more central to the global seafood system than China. China’s influence on the production, processing, distribution and overall demand for seafood is unparalleled. Indeed, China alone is expected to account for around half of the growth in global seafood consumption over the coming decades.
“A partir de 2020 vai ser proibido vender bebidas em copos de plástico descartáveis em Lisboa. A câmara municipal, que anunciou a medida esta quinta-feira, quer aproveitar a realização da Capital Verde Europeia do próximo ano para incentivar os restaurantes e bares a ter comportamentos mais ambientalmente responsáveis e que não signifiquem uma dor de cabeça para a higiene urbana.
“O Governo moçambicano travou a pesca de camarão nos próximos dois meses, para permitir a reprodução deste marisco, anunciou esta terça-feira o Ministério do Mar, Águas Interiores e Pescas. “Não haverá pesca, venda e transporte de camarão durante este período”, declarou Maurício Maússe, do Ministério do Mar, Águas Interiores e Pescas, citado esta terça-feira pelo diário O País.
“No seguimento dos ataques de tubarões de que várias pessoas foram alvo na Austrália ao longo dos anos, os Estados australianos tentaram tomar algumas medidas para reduzir tal risco, incluindo a utilização de drones para localizar tubarões perto de surfistas, ou mesmo a captura e abate (tendo-se chegado a capturar 70 tubarões antes da estratégia ter sido abandonada devido a recomendação das autoridades ambientais). Assim, a Costa de Queensland viu o número de tubarões diminuir nas últimas décadas, segundo a nature (International Journal of Sience).
“When the truck arrived at the harbor of Malta, thousands of bluefin tuna were hurriedly carried from the farms nearby and loaded inside. Fattening tuna farms are a common view when you fly over the Maltese coastline: tonnes of wild tuna are caught in their spawning ground, transferred to underwater cages and fattened with fish meal, sardines, mackerel and squid until they are fat enough to meet the Japanese valued standards for sushi.
“It can be easy to focus on the bad news when we think about the ocean: climate change, overfishing, pollution, loss of coastal habitats, biodiversity loss. All that is real, and cause for concern and concerted action. Still, there is also cause to celebrate: there are incredible community-based organizations working to address those challenges and foster new leadership for conservation.
“Long before fillets reach your dinner plate, lots of seafood is thrown away. Overboard, actually. As fishing crews sort through their catches, they toss unwanted fish back into the sea—as much as 20% of the global catch. The vast majority die. On 1 January, the wasteful practice became illegal in waters of the European Union. Scientists believe the policy will lead to more efficient fisheries and eventually boost stocks. But in the short term it could mean hardship for the industry and perhaps even compromise fisheries data, because almost all crews can discard fish without anyone knowing. “This is one of the most dramatic changes in EU fisheries policy,” says Peder Andersen, an economist at the University of Copenhagen.”
“Japan, in many respects a model global citizen, has long been an outlier on whaling, an industry that most nations have abandoned as cruel, unnecessary and a danger to the survival of the great mammals of the seas, but that the Japanese claim as part of their culture. That divide has come to a head with Japan’s exit from the International Whaling Commission, a politically motivated decision Tokyo should reconsider.
“A ministra do Mar, Ana Paula Vitorino, quer uma “uma gestão responsável das possibilidades de pesca”, pelo que “urge regular a captura de raia curva (Raja undulata) na zona 9 do Conselho Internacional para a Exploração do Mar (CIEM).
“Coastal development and sea level rise are causing the decline of tidal flats along the world’s coastlines, according to research that has mapped the ecosystems for the first time.
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“Uma investigação desenvolvida em 727 Áreas Marinhas Protegidas (AMP) definidas pela União Europeia (UE) concluiu que em tais áreas ocorre uma elevada intensidade de pesca do arrasto, considerada uma das mais prejudiciais para a sustentabilidade das espécies, conforme se refere num artigo recentemente publicado na revista Science.
“Science-based approaches to sustainable tuna are only effective if they are implemented. That’s why ISSF advocates to tuna RFMOs and their member nations – both directly and through the efforts of ISSF participants and stakeholders – for policies and approaches that foster real, positive change for the long term sustainability of global tuna fisheries. The end of the year is an apt occasion to assess the impact of our efforts. What’s been accomplished in the world of tuna conservation and management? And what opportunities were missed in 2018 that set the course for 2019?”
“Segundo um comunicado oficial, as ações de fiscalização terrestres e marítimas realizadas nesta sexta-feira resultaram na apreensão de 1.126 quilos de pescado: “450 quilos de sardinha, por estar proibida a sua captura; 436 quilos de polvo e 8 quilos de raia, por se encontrarem em estado imaturo, não tendo o tamanho mínimo permitido para venda; 180 quilos de amêijoa-japónica, por apanha sem controlo higiossanitário; 50 quilos de ouriços-do-mar, por apanha sem licença; e 2 quilos de pescada por fuga à lota”.”
“Over the course of 2018, we have seen how human impacts and global climate change are rapidly altering the world’s oceans.
“Each winter, sleek seabirds known as Mandt’s black guillemots descend on the ice that forms over the Bering Sea between Alaska and Russia. They spend the season diving under the ice to catch Arctic cod and resting on the frozen surface. But last winter, ice in the Bering sea was at record lows, forming later and melting far sooner than usual.
“A start-up by an Indian-American in Los Angeles can completely change the battle against marine plastic litter that is plaguing the world’s oceans at this moment.
“Oceans play a crucial role in balancing the global ecosystem. Hence, sustenance of a healthy marine environment is of vital necessity for several reasons. At the outset of expansive trade policies in the international arena, freight of goods via sea routes have been largely resorted to by the major players of the global market. Therefore, in the recent past marine pollution caused by the shipping industry has been identified as a growing concern by the coastal nations of the world.
“Fishing gear that’s lost or dumped in the ocean may account for almost one half of all the plastic waste that ends up there. But this equipment, which is manufactured for fishing or aquaculture, isn’t ordinary waste because it continues to do what it was designed for – trapping marine life, with devastating consequences.
“Most people’s New Year’s resolutions are all about self-improvement: exercising more, saving money, learning new skills. This year, enlist your family in a group resolution: reducing your single-use plastic waste.
“Os cotonetes têm os dias contados na Europa, mas em Itália já estão proíbidos.
“A rare kind of seahorse and a rainbow-coloured sea slug with a titillating name are among the creatures making a comeback in UK waters, according to an annual conservation review.
“World Fisheries Day is celebrated every 21st November and represents a chance to recognise the vast and sometimes underappreciated food source for millions of humans that is the sea. It’s also an opportunity to look back over the last 12 months and assess how well fishing efforts have performed in achieving goals of sustainability, as well as setting out plans for the coming year.
“Seahorses, little terns and crawfish are among the creatures making a comeback with the help of conservation action around the UK’s coasts, the Wildlife Trusts has said.
“(Just kidding, there were only three this year)
“Um novo projeto-piloto que visa premiar o consumidor final pela devolução de embalagens e garrafas de plástico não reutilizáveis, foi publicado esta quarta feira, no Diário da República.
“Around the world, oceans are providers: of food, of livelihoods, of entire economies.
“A organização não-governamental (ONG) Greenpeace considera “lamentável e perigosa” a decisão do Japão de abandonar a Comissão Baleeira Internacional (CBI) e retomar a caça destes cetáceos nas suas águas territoriais a partir de julho de 2019.
“The reformed Common Fisheries Policy contain the tools to deliver profitable fisheries, thriving fish stocks and lively coastal communities. To combat over-fishing, the EU and member states must act now, demands Jan Isakson.
