Hakai magazine · #Environmental Justice #Food #Indigenous #Oceans #Policy

First Nations’ occupations of fish farms are rooted in a deeper conversation about Indigenous land rights.

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Northwestern tribes and the University of Washington climate group have joined forces to help protect salmon, roots, trees, and other important resources.

Hakai magazine · #Biodiversity #Climate Change #Oceans #Policy

How can vulnerable marine species be protected when climate change is a reality?

Hakai magazine · #Biodiversity #Oceans #Policy

Fisheries and Oceans Canada cites public backlash as one of the motivating factors for changing the rules governing marine protected areas.

Hakai magazine · #Biodiversity #Oceans #Policy

The government is counting fisheries closures as protected spaces in order to hit a 2020 target. Many scientists argue this is not meaningful conservation.

Hakai magazine · #Biodiversity #Oceans #Policy

New legislation would give planned MPAs interim protection during the years-long approval process.

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A string of concessions to the oil and gas and fishing industries has severely weakened the protective value of Canada’s largest planned marine protected area.

Hakai magazine · #Environmental Justice #Food #Oceans

The country is putting restrictions on its domestic fishing fleet, but its distant water fleet has been growing to compensate.

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China’s fishers indiscriminately target predators as well as prey, putting different pressures on the ecosystem.

Hakai magazine · #Climate Change #Oceans

An innovative project is rehabilitating California’s kelp forests after decades of degradation at the hands of environmental decay and sea urchin predation.