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2018
picture of Willamette River Basin

Scarcity amid abundance in the Willamette River Basin

Nathan Gilles

The Climate CIRCulator

Swarm of fish in the ocean

Ocean solutions: Reversing overfishing

Christopher Costello

The UCSB Current

global fishing map

Global Fishing Watch and the power of data to understand our natural world

Kalev Leetaru

Forbes

Person holding fish in hands

Fishing activities take up four times as much area as agriculture—and can now be monitored in real time

Tom Yulsman

Discover Magazine

Fishing activity by vessels broadcasting AIS

Industrial fishing occupies a third of the planet

Sarah Gibbens

National Geographic

Map of active fishing vessels

New maps reveal global fishing's 'vast scope of exploitation of the ocean'

Dan Charles

NPR, The Salt

map of fishing activity from Global Fishing Watch

New maps show the utterly massive imprint of fishing on the world’s oceans

Chris Mooney and Brady Dennis

Washington Post

Lone fishing boat in Spain

We now know a lot more about all the fishes — and fishing — in the sea

Doyle Rice

USA Today

2017
assembly line

Climate change poses major threat to manufacturing, study finds

Alexander C. Kaufman

Huffington Post

sewing in manufacturing plant

Hot and bothered

Andrea Estrada

The Current

Man collecting fish in his boat

Sustainable resource management as coastal communities' first line of defense against climate change: Q&A w/ Christopher Costello

S.H. Irby

Rare

tuna

Where tourism and tuna overlap: How Global Fishing Watch is informing policy discussions

Kimbra Cutlip

Global Fishing Watch

Header shark up close

Have scientists been overestimating our toll on reef sharks?

David Shiffman

Hakai Magazine

image of tiger resting

Cornered

Julie Cohen

UCSB The Current

dolphins

Fishing rule aims to do for all marine mammals what it did for the dolphin

Alan Yu

The Salt Blog - NPR

2016
photo of coral

U.S. seafood import restriction presents opportunity and risk: Marine mammal protections require increased global capacity

Rob Williams, Matthew G. Burgess, Erin Ashe, Steve D. Gaines, Randall R. Reeves

Science Policy Forum

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