Many of the federal government’s current marine natural resource policies are failures. That is, they have failed to achieve the goals stated when current policies and legislation was first proposed or amended. This reality...
Civilization began as societies learned to plant and raise grain, fruit, and vegetables in farms, orchards, and gardens rather than wander the countryside gathering them, and learned to raise and herd cattle rather than...
But it is important that the conservation community and the public learn to think skeptically about messages of a forthcoming apocalypse as well as about messages of “everything is wonderful.” — Peter Karelva, Nature...
Researching marine natural resource policies for an Economic Thinking workshop in Huntsville, I surfed into Alabama’s entrepreneurial artificial reef program. Alabama’s limited coastline is listed as just 53 miles, except on the Encyclopedia of...
Popular Science has a recent post about a 60,000 ton ancient rock structure discovered in the Sea of Galilee. The structure of stacked basalt rocks is some 70 meters by 10 meters: The site...
Rognvaldur Hannesson’s Privatization of the Oceans is a fascinating story of the development of property rights in ocean fisheries… Hannesson sets the tone with an interesting comparison between the development of property rights in...
The world is a conflicted place, and since most of the world is ocean, no surprise that oceans host a great many conflicts. Oceans cover 71% of the Earth’s surface and hold 97% of...
The most valuable marine natural resource in the world’s oceans may be what isn’t there rather than what is. What isn’t there is state regulation. Just offshore, beyond the reach of state and federal...
Economies don’t equilibrate and nature doesn’t balance. Both are concepts imposed on natural systems that are in reality constantly pushed around by climate and entrepreneurial activity. This matters for speech and debate students because...
Encouraging new evidence suggests that the bulk of the worlds fisheries – including small-scale, often non-industrialized fisheries on which millions of people depend for food – could be sustained using community-based co-management. “The majority...
