Mid-Atlantic Moves to Safeguard Unprotected Forage Base

Author: Pam Lyons Gromen Posted Under: Blog, Councils, Prey Base

“Scoping Reveals Emerging Forage Fisheries” By Pam Lyons Gromen At the October 7th meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, we heard disturbing word from the region’s fishermen that a handful of unmanaged forage species are already the target of commercial fisheries, including round herring, Spanish sardine and chub mackerel, ...

Pacific Council Finishes Precautionary Plan to Protect Unmanaged Forage

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Councils, Prey Base

In September 2015, I attended the Pacific Fishery Management Council in Sacramento to celebrate the Council’s completion of their first ecosystem-based amendment, three years in the making, which will protect unmanaged and unfished forage fish from directed commercial fishing. The Council approved regulations drafted by the National Marine Fisheries Service ...

Unfinished Business

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Big Fish

“There are still threats to big fish that need our attention” By Ken Hinman In this summer’s edition of the Wild Oceans Horizon, I wrote about the tremendous progress we’ve made securing measures to save big fish from indiscriminate fishing and aid in the recovery of billfish, bluefin tuna and ...

Wild Oceans Releases “Resource Sharing”

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Publications

New Paper Outlines a More Natural Way to Fish in Wild Oceans To sustain life in the ocean while at the same time ensuring a healthy future for fishing at sea, we need to fish as part of the natural system, as one among many predators, argues a new white ...

New White Paper on Resource Sharing

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Publications

RESOURCE SHARING:  The Berkeley Criterion On August 10th Wild Oceans will release a “white paper” entitled Resource Sharing: The Berkeley Criterion, written by president Ken Hinman. It describes what he believes to be a more balanced, more natural and far wiser alternative to our present way of managing marine fisheries, specifically those for ...

Resource Sharing: The Berkeley Criterion

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Publications

When we fish, we join the ocean world as predators. That is what we are, by nature, and have been since early times. But unlike other predators, we are limited only by the limits we set for ourselves. Or so we’d like to think. We are subject to all the ...

Slow Down on Changes to Fisheries Law

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, MSA

“We Need Wisdom and Time to Understand the Best Way to Improve the Magnuson Act” By Ken Hinman “Nothing fails like success, because we don’t learn from it.  We learn only from failure.” – Kenneth Boulding, economist The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act of 1976 has been a success. ...

The Past and Future of Menhaden

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Menhaden, Blog, Prey Base

ASMFC INITIATES AMENDMENT 3 TO PROTECT ATLANTIC MENHADEN AS FORAGE On May 5th, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission had one foot in the past and one in the future. At the same meeting where it approved a modest increase in the coast-wide quota based on an out-moded single-species stock assessment, the Menhaden ...

Budget Dumpster Shines Spotlight on Wild Oceans Accomplishments

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Wild Oceans, Our News

Budget Dumpster, a nationally renowned dumpster rental company with a strong commitment to sustainability, profiles “the best cities, companies, organizations and individuals who go above and beyond to improve the environment.”  Wild Oceans is proud to be featured in the company’s latest Profiles in Environmentalism, a regular segment in their blog The Fill.

Menhaden Bait and Switch

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, Menhaden, Blog, Prey Base

WILL THE ASMFC SNATCH DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY?” By Ken Hinman On Tuesday, May 5, a 15-state ASMFC Menhaden Management Board will decide the next steps in conserving “the most important fish in the sea,” based on the latest stock assessment; that is, whether to continue toward an ...