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Little fish big impact Lenfest report recommends cutting catch 50-80%

Edit The Examiner 22 May 2016
In the June 2016 issue of National Fisherman Dave Frulla and Anne Hawkins published the Lenfest Ocean Program, a commissioned report called, Little Fish Big Impact, about management of lower level fisheries ... Boris Worm and 19 other scientists got together and created another Scientific since then concluding that existing fishery management was reversing the once claimed global trend of depletion of stocks. ....

Watch: Marine Biodiversity Expert Talks About What It Takes To Save the Oceans (Bowdoin College)

Edit Public Technologies 28 Mar 2016
(Source. Bowdoin College) ... Dr. Boris Worm, whose talk you can watch in the above video, has spent much of his career researching the interaction between people and marine biodiversity on a global scale ... Original Document ... (noodl. 32791420) ....

Watch: Marine Biodiversity Expert Talk About What It Takes To Save the Oceans (Bowdoin College)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Mar 2016
(Source. Bowdoin College) ... Dr. Boris Worm, whose talk you can watch in the above video, has spent much of his career researching the interaction between people and marine biodiversity on a global scale ... Original Document ... (noodl. 32778587) ....

Obama gives Trudeau warm welcome, jabs Republicans

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 11 Mar 2016
"I have been blamed by Republicans for a lot of things, but being blamed for their primaries and who they're selecting for their party is novel," he said during a joint news conference with visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ... U.S ... "Canada has a lot of catching up to do here, and also on the climate file, as they have dragged their feet for decades," said Dalhousie University marine biology professor Boris Worm in an email....

Conservation Sea Change (University of California - Santa Barbara)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Mar 2016
(Source. University of California - Santa Barbara). Beyond the breakers, the ocean is like the Wild West ... Recently developed technology may change that ... 1, 2015 ... 'For decades, we have been tracking other species - from seabirds to sharks - but now for the first time, we can understand our own ecology, and how and where we impact the oceans on a global scale,' said co-author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia....

Who Knew?

Edit Huffington Post 25 Jan 2016
Nova Scotian marine biologist Boris Worm (really) is quoted as saying, "It's astonishing that we don't know the most basic thing about life."{6} I would venture to say the same could be said about many things ... A new planet or a new worm is fun and exciting and reminds us of new possibilities about the world around us....

Overfishing causing global catches to fall three times faster than estimated

Edit The Guardian 19 Jan 2016
@dpcarrington ... Global fish catch much higher than reported ... “This work has been carefully conducted by painstaking research into the hidden underbelly of global fishing, country by country, region by region” said Prof Boris Worm, at Dalhousie University in Canada and not involved in the new research ... Worm said the world’s fisheries were being over-exploited but that some stocks were being sustainably managed ... But Pauly said ... ....

Bowdoin To Host Big Marine Science Conference in Portland (Bowdoin College)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Jan 2016
(Source. Bowdoin College). Bowdoin College is hosting the 2016 Benthic Ecology Meeting ... David Carlon ... Dr. Boris Worm, of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, will give the plenary address. Worm researches the interactions between people and marine biodiversity, and he tracks changes in biodiversity, focusing in particular on large marine predators such as sharks, tuna, billfish and whales ... (noodl. 31547977) ....

Understanding extinction, the fossil record and the media

Edit The Guardian 09 Dec 2015
Is Racing Extinction their attempt to make amends? ... Related ... George Monbiot ... The loss of species concerns all humans. Not only because our activities are the most important drivers of current extinctions, but also because we have the power to prevent it, thanks to, as the pre-eminent marine ecologist Boris Worm puts it, our “unusual ability to analyse and consciously adjust our behaviour to minimise deleterious consequences” ... ....

The human 'superpredator' is unique -- and unsustainable, study says

Edit Sun Sentinel 21 Aug 2015
“We have the unusual ability to analyze and consciously adjust our behavior to minimize deleterious consequences,” Boris Worm of Dalhousie University, who was not involved in the paper, wrote in a commentary ... --> ... 0 ... “Many vulnerable wildlife species on land have already disappeared during the past 40,000 years in successive waves of extinction on continents and islands that were colonized by people,” Worm wrote....

The human 'superpredator' is unique — and unsustainable, study says

Edit The Los Angeles Times 20 Aug 2015
But what solidifies our No ... (Geoffrey Mohan) ... This is a lesson humans have yet to learn, conservation biologist Boris Worm of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, who was not involved in the study, wrote in a commentary that accompanied the paper. Unlike other predators, humans “have the unusual ability to analyze and consciously adjust our behavior to minimize deleterious consequences,” Worm wrote ... Twitter ...  . ....

How one company is turning ocean pollution into wearable fashion

Edit Mashable 08 Jun 2015
There's an alarming prediction. All species within the ocean's ecosystems could collapse by the year 2048. It's a hypothesis made by Dr. Boris Worm and a team of other marine conversation biologists, who believed the effects of rapidly spreading pollution from humans will have an increasingly devastating impact on the environment ... See also. 7 important ocean trends, and what we can do about them ... Image. G STAR ... Image. G-Star ... ....

Could sharks be heading for extinction?

Edit Detroit Free Press 13 Aug 2014
“We’re killing about 6 1/2 to 8 percent of the sharks out there per year,” said Boris Worm, professor of marine biology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia ... “They’re like slow-moving disasters,” Worm said of shark declines ... An estimated 100 million sharks are killed annually, Worm and other researchers estimate, 20 million or more per every fatal shark attack....
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