To make the case for marine conservation initiatives, we research and publish reports on a wide variety of subjects, from scientific discoveries to financial policy.
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Universally, the management of drifting fads is weak, characterised by an absence of responsibility on the part of owners and operators for the impacts of their fads on ocean ecosystems.
14 March 2022
Blue carbon, the term given to marine habitats that sequester and store carbon dioxide, represents an incredibly exciting opportunity for marine conservation and restoration.
07 March 2022
David Tudor, Projects Director at the Blue Marine Foundation – “There are lots of barriers, but clearly none of these are insurmountable. There is a huge potential for offshore wind farms to enable both nature enhancement and a net zero carbon world.”
17 February 2022
31 December 2021
Jersey’s commercial fisheries play a crucial role in the island’s economy and daily life, while also supporting significant activity in its surrounding waters.
14 December 2021
Blue Marine’s 2021 Review and Newsletter
31 December 2021
All life on Earth depends on the health of our ocean. However, the ocean is in crisis, pushed to its limits by overfishing, which is threatening the ocean’s capacity to provide its vital functions of providing oxygen, absorbing CO2 and regulating the Earth’s temperature.
28 November 2021
“To share what we know about cuttlefish and their fishery and to start a collaborative discussion about what is needed to protect their populations and establish a sustainable and viable fishery for the future. We hope we can all ultimately and collectively input to the development of a fisheries management plan for cuttlefish.”
Sam Fanshawe, from Blue Marine Foundation
25 November 2021
This report was commissioned by the North Sea Wildlife Trusts, Blue Marine Foundation, WWF and the RSPB to assess the extent, scale, distribution, and potential of the current blue carbon sinks in the English North Sea. The focus was to review the current extent and distribution of each blue carbon habitat, estimate the quantity of carbon currently stored within these habitats, establish the average net sequestration rate and estimate the potential net total sequestration of each blue carbon habitat.
08 November 2021
We’re pleased to share with you BLUE’s latest newsletter: September 2021.
15 September 2021
“While we know that bottom trawling has utterly devastated whole tracts of ocean floor, we do not yet know the full extent of its impacts in terms of carbon. The brilliant Enric Sala believes that trawling causes the same level of emissions as the aviation sector, and if that’s even nearly true, we need to step up our research, and fast.” Rt Hon Lord Zac Goldsmith Minister of state for the Pacific and the Environment
13 September 2021
The lessons learned by the Solent Oyster Restoration Project has led to a growing network of oyster nurseries around the UK, helping to restore local oyster populations and allow communities to take part in conservation on their doorstep.
08 September 2021
Fish Aggregating Devices, or FADs, are a fishing tool used primarily by purse seine tuna fisheries. A FAD constitutes a quantity of floating material that is set out at sea, around which marine species such as tuna congregate. Fish attracted to FADs can become easy targets for encircling purse seine nets. FADs can be drifting (dFADs) or anchored (aFADs).
02 August 2021
We’re pleased to share with you BLUE’s latest newsletter: June 2021.
25 June 2021
“A Marine Park could really tell the story about our marine life – it could mimic something that people recognise from National Parks on land” Annabel Lawrence, University of the Highlands and Islands
08 June 2021
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