Erin Spampinato is the Georgetown, Maine-based price reporting specialist of SeafoodSource. Erin has held staff writer and editor positions at a number of mission-driven organizations, and her freelance journalism has appeared in various publications, including Electric Literature and The Guardian. She is also the author of numerous academic publications on the topics of gender, literature, and history. Erin holds a PhD in English Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Smith College.
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A new turtle excluder device (TED) design being tested in the Gulf of Mexico, currently referred to as the Gulf of America by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, aims to save juvenile turtles from bycatch without diminishing shrimp catch.
TEDs have long been used by shrimp trawlers to reduce sea turtle bycatch. The current industry standard, while successful at reducing bycatch of adult sea turtles, often fails to exclude
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The High Court of the U.K. has rejected a final appeal from Icelandic artist ODEE to maintain a website he created to satirize Akureyri, Iceland-based Samherji’s role in the Fishrot scandal.
First brought to public attention in 2019, the Namibian Fishrot scandal involved bribes allegedly paid by Samherji to Namibian officials to access fishing quotas below market values.
ODEE, whose full name is Oddur Eysteinn Friðriksson,
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Experts returning from the annual meeting of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Kingston, Jamaica, warn increased efforts by The Metals Company (TMC) and the U.S. government to start seabed mining – despite a lack of authority approval – could have wider implications for the health of global fisheries and the rule of law at sea.
The push by TMC to start seabed minign comes as experts continue to assert the
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Sitka, Alaska, U.S.A.-based fisher advocacy organization The Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA) has won a USD 485,000 (EUR 422,719) National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant to support AI-driven electronic monitoring (EM) efforts for Alaska fixed gear fishers.
The project will involve utilizing the FishVue AI tool created by British Columbia, Canada-based Archipelago Marine Research, as well as a partnership with the
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