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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...continued

What we think about when we think about food

November 26, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Living Sustainably

Tags:
billycollins, fish, pie, poetry, thanksgiving

The unity of Thanksgiving makes it one of my favorite holidays. It's the one day when everyone in the U.S., regardless of religion or background, does essentially the same thing. More people celebrate Thanksgiving than vote, after all, and I...continued

Watch what you eat

October 18, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Health and the Environment , Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
fish, food politics, greenwich village, theater

When I lived in DC, I spent a lot of time in small, black boxes. Beyond all the giant marble columns and clumps of navy suits is a passionate arts scene, tenacious and willing to perform anywhere it can find...continued

Let's Play Ocean Manager!

September 24, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
fish, games, m&m, snack, stockassessment

I've been jealously reading the blogfish updates from last week's Stanford Business School conference on environmental sustainability. I think Mark is the only enviro-type or fish person there, which seems all the more fun because he gets to hear so...continued

10 great ideas I didn't think of

August 30, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing

Tags:
conservation, fish, subsidies

At least, I never thought of them in this particular way and had them published in Conservation Magazine. It's such a rockstar line-up, a little Lollapalooza of ocean thinkers. There are ideas there that may not seem very revolutionary to...continued

There's gold in them thar streams

August 7, 2007

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
california, economic, fish

In preparation for a talk I'm giving tomorrow night, I've been rereading the great book "The Fisherman's Problem," by Arthur McEvoy. It's a fabulous book, and if you like Doris Kearns Goodwin or Kevin Starr, I recommend tracking down a...continued

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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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