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Dance of the Plankton

Learning about marine food webs is essential to understand how the ocean provides us with seafood. Enjoy the whiteboard animation before watching Chapter 4.2 "Dance of the Plankton." This…

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Q&A | Martin Visbeck & Jacqueline Uku | 2020 May 14

This live Q&A session took place on May 14, 2020, and answered questions related to the UN Decade of Ocean Science, ocean governance, ocean literacy, and the impact of COVID-19 on the ocean. …

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Introduction to Fisheries and Aquaculture

When humans first turned to the ocean to find and harvest food hundreds of thousands of years ago, the seemingly infinite amount and diversity of seafood must have been overwhelming. In fact, until…

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Fisheries Economics and Management

In the period from 1950 to the late 1980s, global catches in fishers have increased from less than 20 million tons per year to about 80 million tons per year. They have not increased anymore, which…

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From Ocean Science to Ocean Sustainable Development

This chapter presents some amazing facts about the ocean, including that seventy percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by ocean and that the oceans provide 95 percent of the space for…

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Our Ocean: A Finite Resource

The ocean has always sparked human curiosity. In the mid-20th century, people began to realize that there are limits to what humanity should do to our planet before it cannot support life as we know…

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