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  • How Catfish and Algae Are Cleaning Up the Chicago River

    December 22, 2015 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    By releasing fish into the Chicago River, the city of Chicago aims to help clean up its ecosystem, as the fish hopefully will eat the river's excess algae.

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  • Fish Net Fashion

    May 18, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Slovenia, Ajdovščina, Municipality of Ajdovščina

    "Ghost gear" are nylon nets and other waste left behind in our oceans by fishing boats - they cause massive environmental damage, releasing toxins in the water, ensnaring wildlife, and clogging up beaches. Now one organisation, the Healthy Seas Initiative, is working with fishermen and a sportswear company called ECONYL to retrieve abandoned nets from out of the ocean and convert the materials into clothing, carpets, and more.

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  • Now It's Personal

    April 22, 2015 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Pacific Grove, California

    Marine biologists around the world are adopting personalization technologies into their work to help them better understand the movements and lives of the undersea creatures they’re monitoring. For example, the Shark Net app allows California researchers to receive notifications via smartphone about individual white sharks. Initiatives like this allow for a combination of personalization and crowdsourcing, which can be a boon for marine conservation efforts.

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  • Fish Farm of the Future Goes Vegetarian to Save Seafood

    February 23, 2015 |

    Bloomberg |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    To avoid depleting the oceans, fish farms should consider feed that is ethically sourced—or even vegetarian. Feeding fish a completely vegetarian diet makes fish farms more sustainable and avoids relying on feeder-fish, which can absorb toxins from their environment. Two X Sea, a California-based company, has developed a vegetarian fish food made from food staples that can be grown on land and sourced from within the US.

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  • On Columbia, ‘just add water' seems to be working

    August 02, 2014 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Brewster, Washington

    New water management technology implemented along the Columbia has significantly helped the fish population - specifically salmon - return to healthy numbers and has restored much of the community and industry that revolves around the river, including for native peoples.

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  • Coral cultivation offers hope to devastated western Indian Ocean reefs

    March 29, 2014 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Seychelles, Roche Caiman, Victoria

    Warming water has led to the collapse of coral reef systems in the western Indian Ocean, essential to fisheries, protecting shorelines, and reducing beach erosion and sea-level rise. Marine scientists from Nature Seychelles, as part of an international project to protect and restore the reefs, are promoting varieties of coral that they have found to be resistant to the rise in temperature.

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  • Unlikely Heroes: Goats Rescue N.Y. Bog Turtles

    June 24, 2008 |

    NPR |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York

    Invasive weeds are ruining the habitat of New York's wild bog turtles. In Hudson River Valley, domestic goats and cows are being used to save bog turtles by grazing on this foreign weed. So far, the plan seems to be working as the turtles have shown signs of not just returning but also laying eggs in the area.

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