US government officials announced Tuesday recommendations that women who are pregnant or breast-feeding and young children eat a minimum of two servings of low-mercury seafood…
Report predicts that loss of ocean net primary productivity over the next 200 years will be at least 50%. The present value of the oceans…
In Science Dogma aka Theory Has Always Fought Against New Observed Evidence A friend reminded me of the fact that pioneers in science are often…
About 56 million years ago, a pulse of carbon dioxide (source unknown) that surged into the atmosphere sent global temperatures soaring. In the oceans, that…
Phytoplankton — tiny ocean plants — are the most important form of life on Earth. They supply us with most of the oxygen we breathe…
THE FISH ARE BACK! Last week on Earth Day out of the blue came a very complimentary story, published in the National Review Online, a…
So you’ve heard about the Earth actually being 71% ocean but what does that look like.
Waking up on Earth Day to discover a new story about our work is published is good news for us. It’s even better news for…
While hundreds of millions of dollars remove a few million tonnes of CO2 from smokestacks; hundreds of millions of fish swim home into nets and…
I was recently once again engaged in the never-ending semantic distraction and explaining the etymology and use of the word “geoengineering.” Here’s a brief explanation…
Good Friday is the biggest fish eating day of the year in much of the world. Catholics and non-Catholics alike are drawn to fish mongers…
The oceans which make up 70% of this Blue Planet are candidates for being the world’s largest scale, human-made disaster and the world’s best opportunity…
The EU Parliament approved the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) with a huge majority Tuesday. The budget of €6.5 billion for 2014-2020 will finance…
Food aid for those most in need is both a question of charity and a question of available food. Last fall when our pasture fed…
When I was a boy I had the good luck to grow up with a father who liked to fish. While catching fish is the…
Dear James, A friend sent me note a few days ago about the river he lives near that is still frozen but almost ready for…
Last week Britain’s and Europeans were dismayed when they were warned of the clogging Sahara dust coating everything from cars to lungs. The Sahara had…
A tour de force scientific paper published in the Journal PLOS One confirms the critical role ocean pasture conditions have on salmon returns. Scientists have long…
This Blue Planet is in a fishery crisis. A solution to restore healthy fish is at hand. We just have to get to work to give…
The central California coastal town of Monterey was the setting of John Steinbeck’s depression period novel Cannery Row. The story revolves around the people living there: Lee…