Fishery

• Our government is committed to the conservation of American eel, with sustainability and orderly management as the top priorities for the elver fishery.
• I have carefully considered all options on whether the existing circumstances would enable a sustainable and orderly elver fishery this year.
• That is why I have made the difficult decision to not issue elver licences and not open the Maritimes Region elver fishery in 2024.
• The Department continues its work to make regulatory and management changes necessary to provide a safe and sustainable elver fishery for all harvesters.

• Although it is early, the day is already unseasonably warm, the sky hazy with smoke from hazard-reduction burns to the south and north of the city.
• Walking to the water’s edge I wade out and dive, then stroke outwards until my breath gives out and I surface with a gasp.
• There is something very particular about looking back towards the shore from deeper water.
• Amid the convulsions of COVID, a hastening wave of calamity has made it clear that the first stages of climate breakdown are upon us.
• Food production will decline markedly, especially in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia and Central and South America.
• Warming and acidifying waters will severely impact the fisheries that provide one-third of the world with their principal source of protein.

A shift

• Attempting to comprehend its immensity and fluid multiplicity alters us, making it possible to glimpse new continuities and connections.
• As the late Sven Lindqvist observes in his interrogation of the racist and genocidal foundations of European imperialism, “It is not knowledge we lack.
• It is the courage to understand what we know and draw conclusions.” In other words, the path through involves more than just a shift in energy sources.
• It begins in a reckoning with the past, and demands a far more fundamental reorganisation of the global economy, a shift to a model that operates within planetary boundaries and shares resources for the benefit of all.
• Such a shift is not impossible.

Beauty and astonishment

• How do we make sense of the disappearance of coral reefs, of dying kelp and collapsing ecosystems?
• How do we imagine a world in which the massing life that once inhabited not just the oceans but the earth and the sky is largely gone?
• More than that, however, the act of openness creates the possibility of love and joy and – improbably – wonder.
• However much has been lost, the world still hums with beauty and astonishment.

• No less importantly, it is to recognise that despair is also a form of turning away.
• Yet, like the scientists working to save coral reefs, he said he did not know what else he could do.

• Instead, grief must be part of a larger recognition that there is no longer any way back, that the only route now is forward.
• Surviving it demands we build a world that treats everybody – human and non-human – as worthy of life and possibility.
• I turn to look out to the horizon, its fading margin between sea and sky a space of grief, but also possibility.
• This is an edited extract from Deep Water: the world in the ocean by James Bradley (Hamish Hamilton).

James Bradley was the recipient of the Copyright Agency Non-Fiction Fellowship for 2020.

• VANCOUVER, British Columbia, March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Atico Mining Corporation (the “Company” or “Atico”) (TSX.V: ATY | OTC: ATCMF) is pleased to announce that it has signed, with the Government of Ecuador, an investment agreement (“the Agreement”) for its 100% owned La Plata mining project located in Ecuador (the “La Plata project”).
• In the context of this event, the Ecuadorian administration, through the agency of Minister Sonsoles Garcia, formalized this agreement with Atico Mining Corporation.
• Specifically, this agreement encompasses most previous and future exploration, development, construction and initial sustaining investment phases of the La Plata mining project.
• The document further delineates the Ecuadorian State's commitment to assist and expedite the progress of the La Plata mining project.

• Toronto, Ontario, Feb. 28, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) and Massey College are thrilled to present the third installment of the RSC Dialogues @ Massey series, Water is Life: Sustainability of Our Oceans.
• At this event, speakers will explore the topic of water sustainability with a focus on habitats, climate change, and Indigenous sovereignty.
• Dr. Cheung is recognized internationally for his research on the interconnections among climate change, food security and biodiversity conservation in marine environments.
• As a marine ecologist and fisheries scientist, Dr. Cheung's work addresses policy-relevant research questions through a transdisciplinary lens that encompasses oceanography, ecology, economics, and social sciences.