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President Bush creating the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument, which is now named Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. MCBI was instrumental in the establishment of this protected area.
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MCBI recently issued these news releases:
- Letter to the EPA: Ocean Acidification and Marine pH Water Quality Criteria June 15th, 2009
MCBI and 31 other organizations wrote a letter to the EPA asking them to address ocean acidification through their powers under the Clean Water Act.
- President Barack Obama: Creating a Sea Change June 12th, 2009
On June 12, President Obama took the first step toward fundamentally changing US ocean conservation. The President’s proclamation on ocean policy and marine spatial planning will transform how America governs our oceans. He gave federal agencies 180 days to create the ecosystem-based framework for managing our ocean's places, a major departure from the current system, which almost completely overlooks the patterns and needs of nature and people.
- Dr. Elliott A. Norse receives Dr. Nancy Foster Award for Habitat Conservation June 8th, 2009
On World Oceans Day, Dr. Elliott A. Norse, President and Founder of Marine Conservation Biology Institute, was presented with the Dr. Nancy Foster Award for Habitat Conservation today by NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Habitat Conservation. The Dr. Nancy Foster Habitat Conservation Award honors a commitment of excellence in service to habitat conservation.
- MCBI Receives Award from the National Fish and Wildlife Service May 5th, 2009
Last week, at a dinner celebrating the successful establishment of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument and the Rose Atoll Marine National Monument, the National Wildlife Refuge System, part of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, presented MCBI with an award for our "dedicated commitment in securing a national ocean conservation legacy that is unprecedented in the history of the United States." Prominent leaders from the former Bush Administration, new members of the Obama Administration, scientists, and other non-profit organizations were in attendance.
- Mia Tegner Awardee in the News - Deep-sea fish stocks threatened March 11th, 2009
Commercial fishing in the north-east Atlantic could be harming deep-sea fish populations a kilometre below the deepest reach of fishing trawlers, according to a 25-year study published on Wednesday. Scientists have long known that commercial fishing affects deep-water fish numbers, but its effects appear to be felt twice as deep as previously thought. The study was conducted by MCBI Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants award winner Dr. David Bailey.
- Ocean Conservationists Celebrate President Bush’s Decision to Create Three New Marine National Monuments in the Central Pacific Ocean January 6, 2009
President George W. Bush will make marine conservation history today when he announces strong new protections for a vast area of the central Pacific Ocean that includes nine distinct tropical coral islands and their surrounding waters, ranging from Wake Island in the west to Palmyra Atoll in the east. The three new protected areas will be called Marianas Marine National Monument, Pacific Remote Island National Monument, and Rose Atoll National Monument. In total, approximately 195,000 square miles will be protected.
- New Report Ranks Destructive Impacts of Fishing Gear
Used in Canada December 15th, 2008
A new national study recommends that Fisheries and Oceans Canada immediately implement policies that prioritize the protection of habitat and marine life as well as provide incentives to fishermen to switch to less harmful fishing gear. This study, entitled “How We Fish Matters: Addressing the Ecological Impacts of Canadian Fishing Gear”, ranks the impacts of 13 different gear types used in Canada, from bottom trawls to lobster traps... Read the backgrounder
- High Seas Gems in the SpotlightOctober 9th, 2008
Today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress a joint initiative has been launched to highlight special places in the least protected place on Earth: the high seas. The centerpiece of which is a brochure showcasing 10 “gems” of the high seas...
- Ocean Conservationists Laud President Bush's Proposal to Protect Vast Pacific Coral Reef Areas August 25th , 2008
Prominent ocean conservationists are encouraged by President Bush’s announcement today directing his Administration to consider protecting a number of very large, ecologically important ocean areas...
- New Research to explore Hawaii's ecological past July 30th , 2008
Today at the Hawaii Conservation Conference in Honolulu, Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) announced the recipients of its 2008 Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology. This granting program is one of the first of its kind to support efforts that look at past ocean conditions....
- Ocean Iron Fertilization and Carbon Sequestration: Can the Oceans Save the Planet? February 18, 2008
Over the past decade, the issue of global climate change has moved from a scientific possibility to a political reality. As scientific evidence of climate change has mounted, so has the political pressure to consider approaches to help mitigate the magnitude and rate of change and to reduce the scale of environmental impacts...
- New Research Reveals Shark Superhighways and Hotspots
Insights can inform urgently needed shark conservatio strategies February 17, 2008
The world’s sharks are disappearing. These fearsome yet charismatic fish continue to fall victim to overfishing and many are now at risk of extinction as a result. New research shows that open-ocean sharks are particularly threatened from overfishing, and other work shows that the deeper sharks live, the longer it takes for their populations to recover...
- Dragnet - Bottom Trawling, the World’s Most Severe and Extensive Seafloor Disturbance February 14, 2008
Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space...
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- NOAA Releases Report on US Deep-sea Coral Ecosystems December 10, 2007
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released a new report today, The State of Deep Coral Ecosystems of the United States. The peer-reviewed report, prepared by NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, documents the biology, distribution, and types of deep-sea corals on the continental shelves and slopes of the US including its US Caribbean and Pacific territories...
- Marine Conservation Organization Announces Grants in Historical Marine Ecology August 29, 2007
Marine Conservation Biology Institute announced today the recipients of the 2007 Mia J. Tegner Memorial Research Grants in Marine Environmental History and Historical Marine Ecology. This granting program is one of the first in the world to exclusively support projects documenting the long-term influence of human activities on ocean life and marine ecosystems...
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Congress Passes Legislation to Protect Deep Sea Corals from Fishing Gear December 8, 2006
Congress today passed legislation that establishes a new national policy for the conservation of deep sea coral ecosystems. The corals provision is a part of a broader measure to revise the management of federal fisheries within the exclusive economic zone of the United States, a vast oceanic area larger than our nation’s land mass...
- Environmentalists Praise Bush's Action to Create the World’s Largest Marine Protected Area: Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument June 15, 2006
President George W. Bush will announce today his intention to establish the world’s largest marine protected area – over 84 million acres - to safeguard a remote, biologically rich string of islands and submerged lands known as the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI)....
- MCBI releases the first report on the distribution, threats, and management of US deep sea corals June 8, 2006
Deep sea corals provide shelter, feeding areas, and breeding grounds for many marine organisms, including several commercially important fish species, and have shown great promise in treating human diseases including cancer.....
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