I respect my friend Sylvia Earle’s refusal to eat seafood, as well as the famed ocean scientist’s argument that no market hunting has ever been sustainable. Still, there’s nothing as delicious to me as a wild salmon I’ve caught myself, or raw oysters from cold waters with their fresh briny sea flavor, or fried calamari with…
Writers for the Sea is a new organization that was formed on June 8—World Oceans Day—and is going to make a splash, if not set off a new wave, in literature. What prompted the creation of Writers for the Sea? “Who hears the fishes when they cry?” asked Henry David Thoreau in 1839. The following…
Over the last 64 years, the geologic nanosecond in which I’ve lived my life, 90 percent of the largest pelagic (open ocean) fish — including hammerhead sharks, bluefin tuna and black marlin — have been wiped out, along with close to half the world’s tropical reefs. Our global ocean faces a cascading disaster from industrial…
In 2012 after 13 years of heated debates, name-calling, lawsuits and public hearings, California finally created the network of underwater wilderness reserves mandated by the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA). These reserves, which encompass 16 percent of the waters along California’s spectacular 1,100-mile coastline, include some of the best dive sites on the planet.…
Opening speeches at the 5th Biennial Blue Vision Summit, hosted by Blue Frontier at the Carnegie Institute for Science in Washington, D.C.
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