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Best Week Ever (and Last Week Ever)

May 27, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
blogfish, california, great, shark, white

On Switchboard, that is. After eight great years at NRDC, I will be heading out into the wild world of consulting as of Friday. There are so many things I've been meaning to blog about, from my trip to the...

The latest fad in fishing

May 20, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
FAD, fishing, France, raft, solar

There are fads that come and go -- plastic jelly bracelets, shoulder pads, diatom arranging -- and then there are those that float around for years. Decades, even. In the case of FADs, or "fish aggregating devices," we're talking...

If you're in Brussels next week, come talk about MPAs

May 6, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
acronyms, california, CBD, EU, marine reserve, MPA, TPAGE

If you happen to be in Europe next week, why not stop by Brussels on May 16th and participate in a conversation between folks in the EU and the US working on marine protected areas, aka MPAs. It's not that...

Salmon flunk

May 2, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
california, sacramento, salmon, simplesteps

The Secretary of Commerce has now officially declared the west coast salmon fishery a "disaster" and a "failure." These dire words have a legal meaning; their utterance opens the door for disaster relief money. Ever since fishery managers made the...

The last one standing

April 23, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
california, civil society, marine reserve, MLPA, MPA, nudibranch

It started raining in San Rafael around 5:30 pm last night, right around rush hour, and the 250 people who'd shown up to talk about marine protected areas were getting antsy. They'd been there since 9 am, wearing shirts and...

Fishing makes fish populations unstable

April 21, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
fish, fisheries, Nature, Scripps, stockassessment, Sugihara

I'm always excited to see new papers from George Sugihara's lab, because his group of researchers is applying new math to old problems. Since you can't count all the fish in the sea, regulators rely on estimates produced by stock...

Can you hear me now?

April 9, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
acoustic, antarctica, noise, underwater, whales

We at NRDC have a long history of worrying about the sound in the sea. When your life's aquatic, your ability to detect vibrations can mean life or death or lunch. You might even want to make some joyful noise...

Jump, tuna, jump!

March 27, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
games, purse seine, tuna

Casual games are all the rage these days, what with Freerice racking up billions of grains. They even have some that make you happy and more confident. But what if you just want to pretend to be a tuna?...

On their bellies, sea pigs crawling

March 24, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
antarctica, blacksabbath, eelpout, holothurian, Ross Sea

I usually count on the boys at Zooillogix to post the best news of new creatures first, but I'm disappointed they left out the sea pigs and eelpout in their post on the Tangaroa voyage. Giant starfish and jellyfish? Cool,...

Fewer eggs, fewer baskets

March 24, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
antarctica, forage, globalwarming, penguins

The idea of a diverse portfolio is a common theme in financial discussions. If you happen to have any money these days, the experts would tell you to spread it around to maximize your returns and reduce your risk....

You can touch this

March 4, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
coral, crochet, IMAX, knit, reef

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of seeing "Deep Sea 3D" in its full 3-D IMAX glory. The opening shot is a glowing school of moon jellies floating towards you, and we all reached up our hands to touch the softly,...

Carnival of the Blue turns 10!

March 3, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
carnival, Darwin, robot, shark, shrimp, whales

Let’s face it – those of us who work on, around, and in the sea are lucky people. We find the minute extraordinary and marvel at the fantastic every day. We have 2/3 of the planet as our playground....

Invading armies, travelling on your belly

February 22, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
disaster, Grescoe, invasive, jellyfish, pike, recipe

Mr. Wetzler threw me a bone (or a tentacle as it were) in his post on the recent NYT OpEd by Taras Grescoe. Jennifer's also blogging it at Shifting Baselines -- with some good comments to boot -- so I...

Return of the Dead (Zones)

February 15, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
anoxia, deadzone, Pacific, science, smothered, squid, zombie

The West Coast is continuing its George Romero tribute festival with four straight years of Dead Zones. The Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico is perhaps the most famous of the Dead Zones. In the Gulf, nutrients flowing down...

Three cheers for Kiribati

February 14, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
coral, Kiribati, MPA, turtles

 Polish up your dive kit and book a flight to Kiribati, which just created the world's largest marine protected area. This expands the large area designated in the Phoenix Islands in 2006. At more than 164,000 square miles it's...

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Kate Wing was a senior ocean-policy analyst at NRDC between 2000 and 2008. She's now joined...
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