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  • How Dwindling Fish Stocks Got a Reprieve

    Sylvia Rowley

    April 19, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Giving fishermen a business incentive to fish sustainably can “unleash their creative capacity” to help solve the problem, says one expert.

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  • Study: Program To Protect Fish Is Saving Fishermen's Lives, Too

    Claire Leschin-Hoar

    February 16, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Half Moon Bay, California

    Catch share programs—where fishermen are allotted a set quota of the catch—reduce the notoriously risky behavior fishermen are known for, like sailing in stormy weather, a new study finds.

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  • Tracking Fish From Hook to Fork

    John H. Tibbetts

    February 09, 2016 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Sourcing food locally is an increasingly popular trend. New tracing technologies will make it easier to see where fish are coming from. 

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  • Seaweed cultivation ushers waves of change in the Sundarbans

    Oishanee Ghosh

    November 25, 2015 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: India, Jharkhali, West Bengal

    Algaculture offers a sustainable and empowering alternative to rice farming in coastal areas of India threatened by sea level rise. With the assistance of The Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research and the South Asian Forum for Environment, women engage in algae farming training workshops. Harvesting algae like a crop provides a vital source of additional income to women, who are often the caretakers of their family.

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  • The $50 billion plan to save Louisiana's wetlands

    Robert Boos

    July 19, 2015 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    The state of Louisiana is disappearing at an incredible rate, and its sinking deltas threaten some of the nation's crucial oil, gas, and fisheries industries. Industry and government have created an unprecedented plan to save and rebuild these wetlands over the next 50 years — and say failure is not an option.

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  • Fish Farm of the Future Goes Vegetarian to Save Seafood

    Alan Jeffries

    February 23, 2015 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    To avoid depleting the oceans, fish farms should consider feed that is ethically sourced—or even vegetarian. Feeding fish a completely vegetarian diet makes fish farms more sustainable and avoids relying on feeder-fish, which can absorb toxins from their environment. Two X Sea, a California-based company, has developed a vegetarian fish food made from food staples that can be grown on land and sourced from within the US.

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  • Better Together

    Eve Troeh Jesse Hardman

    February 05, 2015 |

    New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO) |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

    Louisiana and Vietnam both need affordable solutions to rising sea levels. Leaders from Vietnam visited Louisiana to compare ideas.

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  • When Life Gives You Saltwater, Make Shrimp Ponds

    Eve Troeh

    February 03, 2015 |

    New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO) |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Lang Tram

    When the Vietnamese government built a gate in the 1990s to block saltwater from entering a key canal, they hoped it would lead to flourishing, year-round rice crops. Without community buy-in and engagement, the government didn’t have a clear understanding of the needs of local residents. By the time the gate was built, farmers had turned their fields into saltwater ponds to farm shrimp, demonstrating the need for ground-up solutions and deep community listening.

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  • When Life Gives You Rainwater, Make Shrimp Ponds

    Eve Troeh

    January 29, 2015 |

    New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO) |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

    Farmers in Vietnam face rising sea levels but rejected the city's water engineering projects. They prefer gradual measures to cope with climate change so scientists have allowed the farmers to steer the conversation.

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  • Can biomimicry tackle our toughest water problems?

    Benjamin Goldfarb

    November 24, 2014 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Shepherd, Montana

    Clean water and healthy ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficult to come by. With floating islands and other inventions, eco-entrepreneur Bruce Kania thinks that biomimicry - such as reconstructing wetlands and growing biofilms - can tackle the toughest of water problems.

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