Fisheries

Scratch the Salmon, I’ll Have the Sea Robin
Ecosystems / Fisheries / Human Landscape / Oceans

Scratch the Salmon, I’ll Have the Sea Robin

When will consumers figure out that locally-caught fluke and porgies are tastier than farmed and imported fish species?

Just Enough: Fishing for Happiness in Southern Thailand
Culture / Fisheries / Human Landscape / Place

Just Enough: Fishing for Happiness in Southern Thailand

In a remote corner of Thailand, a Muslim community draws both sustenance and meaning from the sea. Will overfishing and societal pressures cost the people of Dato their livelihoods?

An Unsettling Experiment: Dispersants in the Gulf
Actions / Conservation / Ecosystems / Energy / Fisheries / Human Landscape / Oceans

An Unsettling Experiment: Dispersants in the Gulf

On April 20th, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, kicking off a long summer of videos of crude gushing into the sea. Two years later, the offshore oil business is booming, and conventional wisdom has it that the Gulf has fully recovered from the disaster. Not so fast, says Sandy Aylesworth, in an in-depth investigative report.

Multimedia: Hauling in the Sound
Culture / Fisheries / Human Landscape / Multimedia / Uncategorized

Multimedia: Hauling in the Sound

In the wake of continually declining lobster stocks in Connecticut, Tahria Sheather follows one of the state’s few remaining full-time lobstermen, Mike Theiler, out for a day of hauling to explore what it’s really like to be a lobsterman these days in Long Island Sound and capture what is fast becoming an endangered livelihood.