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FishChoice Links Commercial Seafood Buyers With Sustainable Suppliers
Ever wondered why more restaurants don’t offer more sustainable seafood choices? It may be because their seafood buyers have no clue where to go for certifiably sustainable seafood. FishChoice aims to change that.
Aquamarine Power: Green Energy Out Of The Blue
Aquamarine Power has developed a hydro-electric wave energy converter called Oyster that is somewhat a combination of a surface-based wave capture system combined with an underwater system.
World’s Largest Caterer Bans 69 Endangered Fish Species From Its Restaurants
In a move that surely had a few fish doing backflips out of the water, the world’s largest contract caterer, the Compass Group, has heeded the advice of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and banned 69 different fish species endangered by overfishing.
Updates From A Two-Month Long Expedition To The Huge Plastic Garbage Island In The Pacific
Follow Drew Wheeler’s updates on the science expedition to the center of the plastic trash island vortex in the Pacific Ocean. Apparently a complete clean-up isn’t likely due to the sheer scale of the trash island.
Recirculating Marine Aquaculture: Clean Sustainable Seafood At Last?
Aquaculture, commonly known as ‘fish farming’, is an industry that has been growing year after year and providing more and more of the seafood we eat; yet this method of fulfilling the increasing global demand for seafood is riddled with environmental and health problems. The University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute’s (UMBI) Center of Marine Biotechnology (COMB) has recently unveiled some results from their own aquaculture experiment that may lead to a new generation of clean sustainable seafood…but it may be too little too late.
BioPower’s BioWAVE Emulates Ocean Life To Produce Clean Energy
The Sydney-based BioPower Systems has taken the concept of biomimicry and applied it to its bioWAVE and bioSTREAM systems designed to produce clean renewable energy from wave motion.
Like To Eat Fish? Don’t Eat These.
Many people think that eating only fish as their source of protein is better, environmentally speaking, than eating chicken, pork or beef. While in some instances this holds true, generally speaking, eating fish is wholely more destructive to the environment. More specifically, it’s the fish you choose to eat.
