The study will be released via a conference call on Monday, October 18th. Kirk Fordham, CEO of the Everglades Foundation, along with the economic study’s principal investigator, Robert McCormick from Mather Economics, is joined by Tamara Pigott, Executive Director, Lee County Visitor & Convention Bureau; Barry Johnson, President/CEO, Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and Michele [...]
James Cook University researchers in Australia are working on a project to determine how to balance the economically important industry of shark fishing while sustaining their populations.
NOAA’s Fisheries Service has proposed that five populations of Atlantic sturgeon along the U.S. East Coast receive protection under the federal Endangered Species Act. The Gulf of Maine population is proposed for listing as threatened, and endangered status is proposed for the Chesapeake Bay, New York Bight, Carolina, and South Atlantic populations.
October is “National Seafood Month,” and in keeping with its conservation-driven mission, Aquarium of the Bay will be leveraging the month-long event to alert Bay Area residents to the need to consume only sustainable seafood. Studies show that if current fishing practices are not improved and we do not change our eating habits, the world will be depleted of fish by 2048.
International Battery is joining hands with Electric Marine Propulsion to build hybrid power units for big boats and yachts. The partnership with EMP will aim to build a hybrid power train for the world’s largest plug-in, hybrid-electric sailboats.
Divers from the European conservation organisation The Black Fish have last night cut the nets of six holding pens in Taiji, Japan, that were holding dolphins caught during a dolphin drive hunt a few days earlier. During this hunt a number of dolphins were selected for the international dolphinarium trade and transferred to these holding pens.
Irish Energy Minister Eamon Ryan announced that Irish company Wavebob Ltd has secured a grant of $2.4 million (€1.83 million) from the US Department of Energy to prepare for a commercial-scale wave energy demonstration project planned for US waters in 2013.
Minister Ryan also announced that Bord Gáis is to invest €1.8m in Wavebob Ltd, bringing the total investments to $4.8 million (€3.6 million).
Scientists analyzing measurements taken in the deep ocean around the globe over the past two decades find a warming trend that contributes to sea level rise, especially around Antarctica.
The Sixth Annual Conference on Clean Energy, New England’s largest clean energy conference, will be held in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center on November 3 and 4, 2010. For the first time, the conference will be held in collaboration with both the Boston CleanTech Venture Day, which aims to assist European Cleantech companies in exploring opportunities in the U.S. and the New England MREC Technical Conference, which highlights the latest advances in marine renewable energy technology
Global fisheries, a vital source of food and revenue throughout the world, contribute between US$225-$240 billion per year to the worldwide economy, according to four new studies released today. Researchers also concluded that healthier fisheries could have prevented malnourishment in nearly 20 million people in poorer countries.
As sea levels continue to rise, what are coastal communities doing to adapt to and mitigate a situation that could result in the eventual displacement of millions of Americans and destroy beaches and coastal ecosystems? Leading government officials, policy-makers, scientists, insurance experts and others will join together at a conference on Nantucket on September 24 to explore [...]
A report issued by key environmental and scientific federal agencies assesses the increasing prevalence of low-oxygen “dead zones” in U.S. coastal waters and outlines a series of research and policy steps that could help reverse the decades-long trend.
An explosion has torn through an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of Deepwater Horizon rig which sank and caused the largest oil spill disaster in U.S. history
Atlantis Resources unveiled its AK-1000 tidal turbine at Invergordon last week. The device is thought to be the largest tidal turbine of its type to be built in the world. Trials on the device will be run at a European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney, Scotland.
Bharatbook has published a new report on “Global Marine Energy Market Analysis to 2020 – Capacity, Generation, Regulation and Market Share Analysis” which highlights the growth of Global Marine Energy Industry
A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world’s most advanced tidal energy turbines. Scotland is a hotbed for marine energy and the project developer, ScottishPower, wants hundreds more turbines to be built in the next few years. This is excellent news for green jobs in Scotland.
BOEM Seeks Input on an Environmental Assessment for Ocean Current Technology Testing Offshore Florida
UK Opens a £20Million Marine Energy Grant Opportunity
U.S. DOE to Fund One Wave Energy Project for One Year
Norway’s Wello Will Deploy Wave Energy Converter at EMEC by the end of the Month
Ocean Power Technologies Announces Results for the Fiscal Third Quarter Ended January 31, 2012
Ocean Renewable Power Company Receives Permit for Tidal Energy Project in Bay of Fundy
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