Premier Colin Barnett made a speech about funding cuts yesterday at a “business luncheon”. The full transcript is here; it was also reported in the Australian. Barnett was speaking at the CEDA-hosted 2009 “Economic and Political Overview”, billed as “Australia’s p...

Reuters: African nations will be the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change on fisheries, ranging from damage to coral reefs to more severe river floods, according to a study of 132 nations on Thursday. Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo were most at risk, according to the report w...

Reuters: African nations will be the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change on fisheries, ranging from damage to coral reefs to more severe river floods, according to a study of 132 nations on Thursday. Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo were most at risk, according to the report w...

Most vacation snapshots spend their days languishing in photo albums, shoeboxes, or hard drives, not really doing anything useful. But thanks to a new field of research called historical marine ecology, some old holiday photos might actually help us understand fisheries. Loren McClenachan, one such ...

Larry Hirsch got so fed up watching ducks get shot out of the sky that he hatched a plan to get rid of the hunter who hunkered down in the duck blind behind his Fairfax County home. He's not a hunter, but Hirsch acquired the right to build the only duck blind allowed in that spot on the Potomac......

From the Columbus Dispatch: Armed with nets, a plastic dinghy and a 300-volt generator, a team of fish experts spent a day last week collecting fish from the Clear Fork Branch of the Mohican River, looking for a deadly disease called viral hemorrhagic septicemia [VHS]. Officials thought the contagio...

If Greenpeace wanted attention, it got it: The organization released a report this week rating supermarkets on the sustainability of their seafood selection, and a lot of people pretended to be shocked, shocked, that any environmentally dicey fish were being sold. Notably, of course, the National Fi...

The fabled fishery, best known for its high desert beauty, its penchant for crowds, and its fat rainbow trout, just got a makeover thanks to some heavy lifting… Although the river water was ideal in temperature and clarity for trout, fisheries biologist Marc Wethington, with the New Mexico Dep...

Here’s a great opportunity: The oceans are dying. Seriously, the oceans are in horrible shape, and it’s your fault. You did it, Supply, Demand, Pollution and Overfishing. And if we don’t take ownership now, our brands, our children, and our collective appetite for seafood may never...

I'm on an impressive team of economists doing a charter fishing study this year. Ooops, bad year (i.e., atypical) for a charter fishing study (Hurt by diesel prices ...): In the first two months of the year, the number of for-hire trips by North Carolina's 700 charter, guide and head boats dropped 3...