Guest Blog By Demian D.F. Chapman Tens of millions of sharks are killed each year to satisfy the demand for the Asian delicacy shark fin soup, a level of fishing that is not sustainable for most shark species given that they reproduce more like mammals than other fish. Upcoming decisions to monitor global trade in [...]
In the New York Times, the academy award-winning director of The Cove and I disagree on best strategy to appeal for an end to the killing. http://nyti.ms/aL0Xwg Plus, what are the reasons we’re more upset about Japan than the Faroese pilot whale hunt? Not mentioned: Whale watching is worth much more than whale killing in [...]
A New Foundation to Help Conservation and Development on an African Island in the Indian Ocean By Carl Safina Television documentary producer John Angier and I not long ago visited an island off the coast of Tanzania called Pemba. We were filming a pilot for a possible television series called Saving the Ocean. We went [...]
The following OpEd by Carl Safina appeared in Newsday on January 14, 2010: Newsday (New York) January 14, 2010 Taking too much out; putting too much in; That’s the classic problem with how we treat our oceans; a unified policy will help BYLINE: BY CARL SAFINA. Carl Safina, author of several books on the ocean, [...]
Yesterday the Associated Press ran a story about the Western Pacific nation of Palau, who announced today at the United Nations its ban of shark fishing. Carl Safina reflects on how shark populations have plummeted over the years and that Palau is making groundbreaking efforts to reverse this tragic trend: I and everyone I’ve ever [...]
The following op-ed by Carl Safina appeared in Newsday, July 9, 2009. For a full version, click here. Will there always be another fish in the sea? Carl Safina, a MacArthur fellow who lives in Setauket, is the president of Blue Ocean Institute. His most recent book is “Voyage of the Turtle.” I grew [...]
Andy Revkin of the New York Times has a story about Iceland’s plan to kill whales this year. He sent an email to me and to several other people who’ve devoted considerable time to thinking about whales, whaling, and the humane treatment of animals, posing the question, “Is it just plain ‘wrong’ to kill whales?” [...]
Guest blogger Annie Christian is a writer, farmer, and friend of Blue Ocean Institute. She is currently teaching English in Korea and writing about her adventures throughout Southeast Asia. One moment it’s a modern city street, and the next it has morphed into a timeless tableau of gabbing people crouching over brightly colored plastic bowls [...]
The story goes like this: It’s one of the largest, fastest, most gorgeous fish in the sea. Unfortunately, its extraordinary warm-bloodedness makes its muscle delicious to the strange seafood-loving creatures that live on land. The value of bluefin tuna meat goes up due to global demand for sushi and sashimi. As the price goes up, [...]
As Andy Revkin reports in the New York Times, even though whale meat is unpopular in Japan, government officials have decided to expand their whale-hunting. This year they will kill 1,400 whales, and a new species will be openly on the menu: endangered Humpback Whales. Read his excellent article for the facts at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/weekinreview/25revkin.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin. He [...]
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