In an article for Hakai Magazine, International Environmental Policy student Nick Rahaim ’22 describes the conflict between global fisheries and the hungry whales that eat their catch.
Longline fisheries around the world have been fighting an uphill battle against whales, which consume and damage their fish catches. Nick Rahaim IEP ’22 recently wrote an article for Hakai Magazine describing how these intelligent creatures continue to outwit fishers’ and scientists’ attempts to keep the whales at bay.
Master of Arts in International Environmental Policy
Center for the Blue Economy
In a San Francisco Chronicle opinion article, Jason Scorse, director of the Institute’s Center for the Blue Economy and David Helvarg, executive director of Blue Frontier, argue that sanctioning Russia’s oil and natural gas exports is crucial to the U.S. response to the crisis in Ukraine.
In the News, News Stories, People
Director of the Center for the Blue Economy Dr. Jason Scorse contributed to a new report on ocean-based climate solutions published by the Economist Group.
| by Charles Colgan, Phil King, and Sarah Jenkins
The California coast extends across 1,200 miles (3,000 miles depending on what is counted). There have been extensive investments in understanding the physical and biological dimensions of the coast. There are numerous world-class ocean science institutions in California furthering understanding of those dimensions. However, there has been little effort to understand one of the key components of the marine ecosystem: human use.
