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EcoWB Joins Global Partnership on Marine Litter
In March 2021, EcoWB became a member organization of the Global Partnership on Marine Litter (GPML) which came out of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in 2012, bringing together those engaged in preventing marine litter to protect the marine...
read moreEcoWB Program Spotlight: GIS
EcoWB Program Spotlight: GIS Maps are one of humanity’s most important tools. They allow us to navigate in unfamiliar areas and visualize geographic features across the landscape. Modern maps are typically created in GIS...
read moreAmazon Megafish Project GIS and Remote Sensing Plan
The EcoWB GIS Program is assisting Dr. Jens Hegg of the University of Idaho on a project investigating the migration patterns of Largetooth Sawfish (Pristis pristis). Dr. Hegg’s project utilizes chemical analyses of bony structures (including rostral teeth)...
read moreAmazon Megafish Migration Project & International Sawfish Day
The Amazon region, both within the Amazon River and along coast north and south of the river, is home to numerous large, migratory fishes. One of these fishes, the largetooth sawfish, has been the recent focus of the EcoWB Amazon Megafish Migration project. And, with...
read moreMarismas Project in Marismas Nacionales
The Marismas Nacionales (MN) is located on the Pacific coast of Mexico south of Mazatlan and north of Puerto Vallarta in the states of Sinaloa and Nayarit. It extends 240 km from north to south encompassing 513,000 ha, including 113,000 ha of mangroves. It is the...
read moreFisheries Improvement Project Steering Committee Seeking New Members
Ecologists Without Borders (EcoWB) is seeking experienced volunteers with a background in fisheries and/or marine aquaculture management, research, sales, and production to join the EcoWB Fisheries Improvement Project (FIP) Steering committee. Our committee is a...
read moreEcoWB’s Approach to Invasive Water Hyacinth Intervention
Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes, WH)—a free floating, perennial aquatic weed native to the Amazon Basin—is aggressively spreading around the globe, with dire ecological, economic, and social consequences. Once established, WH reproduces rapidly and commonly forms...
read moreIN PURSUIT OF SUSTAINABLE FISHING IN THE CENTRAL GULF OF CALIFORNIA: AN UPDATE
The municipality of Mulegé in Baja California Sur, Mexico, is the largest municipality in the country, has coastline along both in the Pacific Ocean and the central Gulf from California (Sea of Cortez). On the central Gulf of California side of the peninsula,...
read moreNew Grant from RLF for Peruvian Scallop FIP
EcoWB is pleased to announce a new grant from the Resources Legacy Fund to support a Pre Assessment (PA) of the Bay of Sechura scallop fishery. A PA is the first major step in a fisheries improvement project (FIP), geared toward increasing the sustainability and...
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