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…
This year’s 2014 wild Alaska salmon season will be stunningly smaller than last year if the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s predictions are correct. The…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will purchase $20 million in canned Alaska pink salmon for nationwide distribution to hungry Americans, with a suggestion from Sen….
This week the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) is releasing its latest report, the “Working Group II Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report.” Like many…
In the ocean little goes to waste. But even that waste is pure gold to oceanographer David Siegel, director of the Earth Research Institute at U.C….
Puffins are seabirds that are especially wonderful and beautiful to watch. They frequent the ocean far from shore where they feed on all manner of…
The International Court of Justice finally banned the hunting of whales by Japan earlier this year. It even looked for a few weeks that the…
The British Royal Society in 2008 called for experiments with ocean pasture replenishment and restoration. The very same experiments we completed in 2012. And guess…
For the past several years, the Pacific Northwest oyster industry has struggled with significant losses due to ocean acidification as oyster larvae encountered mortality rates…
A new paper reports on the collapse of the Atlantic Ocean pastures over the past 40 years. As the ocean fish pastures collapse mother fish…
If you have ever wondered at the wonder of vitamins keep in mind that it’s not only humans who need them. Vitamins are essential micro-nutrients…
More than 30 years ago John Martin unravelled the vital role of iron, that arrives with dust in the wind, has on ocean plankton blooms….