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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...continued

Stuck in the Stone Age

February 3, 2008

Posted by Kate Wing in Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
fishing, innovation, Kevin Kelly, seiner, technology

Technology has brought more effectiveness to the world of fishing in the form of sonar and GPS, tools that let fishermen catch more fish and return to the same reefs again and again. Yet the basic of fishing itself...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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