Norwegian company Tau Tech, with its vessel Arctic Pearl, is set to begin sustainable scallop harvesting in the Barents Sea, using Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress to deliver a consistent, stable, uninterrupted quality of service and seamless high-speed network coverage in the Arctic.
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The Blue Food Assessment predicts that the global demand for blue foods will roughly double by 2050.
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The 2021 recipients of the NMFS-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship have been chosen.
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After 158 applications flooded in for the Ocean Startup Challenge, the industry reviewers have shortlisted 31 companies to vie for 10 prizes of $25,000 and in-kind support from partners. The shortlisted solutions involve environmental monitoring, reducing marine mammal entanglement in fishing gear, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, technologies to reduce corrosion and biofouling, networks of sensors and analysis tools, sustainable bait
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ASL Environmental Sciences has chosen Dr. Laura Hobbs and Dr. Roland Proud as the winners of the fourth annual Acoustic Zooplankton Fish Profiler (AZFP) early-career scientist award contest. They are both Scotland-based marine ecologists, specializing in bioacoustics. Hobbs is associated with the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) and the University of Strathclyde, and Proud is with the University of St. Andrews. Together, they plan
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FarSounder‘s 3D sonar technology will be part of a project to increase sustainability and benefit the commercial fishing industry. The objective is to assess pelagic fish species such as menhaden and herring. The technology currently used in many fishery surveys is suitable for sampling bottom-dwelling species but not accurately assessing pelagic species. In Rhode Island, pelagic fish, like the Atlantic
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