Recreational fishing and marine pollution
Historically, fisheries management of the marine environment has basically focused on professional fishing in its different modalities. Thus, recreational fishing…
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Marine mammal bycatch: from global to local scale
Bycatch is the act of catching unwanted species in a fishing operation, i.e. all those species that are not the…
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The waste of the pandemic
The penguin found on the beach in Juquehy (Brazil) could be the first animal to die due to the ingestion…
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The environmental impact of illegal mooring
Last Tuesday morning, a man was reported by the local police in San Javier (Murcia) trying to drop a 60-80…
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Plastic waste is still a threat to the sea
Our attention is currently focused on the Covid-19-derived pandemic. However, ignoring or forgetting pre-pandemic environmental threats would be a serious…
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The ocean, a great unknown
The ocean is a great unknown. This is one of the seven principles of Ocean Literacy and it is quite…
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Increases in sightings of marine fauna: covid19, nature or espionage?
Everyone has noticed that during the time we have been confined, videos and photographs of marine fauna have appeared colonizing…
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Basking sharks: new visitors or unknown neighbours?
We are still in confinement and there is a lot of news about fauna that reaches the media. The great…
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ICCAT 2019: Goods and bad news for sharks
The XX ICCAT (International Commission of Conservation of Atlantic Tuna) meeting have caused mixed feelings because of the resolution about…
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