#commercialfishing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #commercialfishing, aggregated by home.social.
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In #NewEngland, Catching #Climate Data Along With #Fish
#CommercialFishing vessels are deploying high-tech sensors to map a shifting sea, providing critical data for scientists and some help for the industry.
Bob Hersey Jr., a Maine lobsterman is among nearly 150 #fishermen who have installed temperature sensors on their traps or trawl nets from Maine to North Carolina as part of a program run by a nonprofit organization with help from #NOAA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/climate/new-england-fishermen-ocean-data.html
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#Hochul Urged to Ban #HorseshoeCrab #Fishing
Supporters of the legislation argue it would protect a declining horseshoe crab population, while opponents warn it will harm the #commercialfishing industry.
Reducing pressures on the crabs would help their ecological role, which includes providing food for migrating shore birds such as the red knot, a dwindling species that the federal government classified as threatened more than a decade ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/science/horseshoe-crabs-protections-hochul-ny.html
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Earth's Oceans Are Filled With What Scientists Are Calling ‘Dark Vessels’ | Satellite Mapping Reveals Extensive Industrial Activity At Sea
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https://www.earth.com/news/dark-vessels-most-industrial-fishing-activity-is-not-publicly-tracked/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06825-8 <-- shared paper
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https://dialogo-americas.com/articles/chinas-rampant-illegal-fishing-is-endangering-the-environment-and-the-global-economy/ <-- shared opinion piece
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #satellite #illegalfishing #tracking #AI #statesponsored #deeplearning #darkvessels #GPS #transmitters #AIS #turnedoff #maritime #marine #vessels #foodsecurity #sustainability #global #globalsecurity #transponders #smuggling #illegal #commercialfishing #transport #energy #oil #gas #shipping #resources #Sentential #Sentential1 #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #realtime #model #modeling #neuralnetwork #accuracy #radar #SAR #cargoship #infrastructure #ocean #worldwide #humanrights #MPAs #coast #coastal #EEZs #tankers #industrial #sea #windfarms -
" #Carbon released by bottom #trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study - #Fishing nets churn up carbon from the #sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the #atmosphere ... Now, for the first time, researchers have calculated just how much trawling releases into the atmosphere: 370m tonnes of planet-heating #CarbonDioxide a year – an amount, they say, that is “too big to ignore”.
There seems to still be a wide range of estimates as to how serious this problem is for the #ClimateCrisis in the scheme of things, but given that this is a *very* conservative estimate, because this and the previous study only rely on fishing vessels which report their positions and are tracked, which account for merely 25% - the remaining 75% is a horrid "dark fleet". Regardless, this is an ongoing epic disaster for the #biosphere an #oceans - "“We have long known that dragging heavy fishing nets – some as large as 10 747 jets – across the ocean floor destroys sea life and habitats,” said Dr Trisha Atwood, an aquatic ecologist at Utah State University and National Geographic’s Pristine Seas." Bottom line (sorry for the pun) - #CommercialFishing is anything but a sustainable industry.
#ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #CO2 #GlobalWarming #Klima #Klimakrise #Fishing
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Global News BC: Ottawa aims to reduce size of salmon fishing industry by buying licences https://globalnews.ca/news/9348991/ottawa-reduce-salmon-fishing-industry-buying-licences/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #FisheriesandOceansCanada #commercialfishing #FishingIndustry #salmonindustry #pacificsalmon #Environment #SalmonFarms #FishFarms #Politics #BCSalmon #Salmon #DFO