So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
Hakai Magazine
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1M ago
We started Hakai Magazine over 10 years ago because the ocean and its coastlines needed a voice. No other outlet was exclusively covering issues at the interface of sea and land—or of the marine world in general. After all these ..read more
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The First First Responders
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
1M ago
When a ship wrecks on an unfamiliar coastline, an already desperate situation is all the more dire. Blinded by the night, and lost, the captain and crew of the Puritan, a four-masted lumber schooner en route from San Francisco, California ..read more
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How, Exactly, Could Deep-Sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity?
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
When Arvid Pardo, a Maltese diplomat, took the floor at the United Nations General Assembly in New York in 1967 and began speaking at length on international law, the room was sparsely populated. Pardo was undeterred. The deep, dark ocean ..read more
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The Canoe in the Forest
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
When I first see the canoe, in May, it takes a moment to distinguish the long, shapely slab of cedar from the patch of earth that has spent more than a century trying to reclaim it. Covered in moss and ..read more
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What’s Next for Deep-Sea Mining?
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
Earlier this year, Leticia Carvalho, a Brazilian oceanographer and environmental policy expert, took the helm of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) as secretary general. The ISA, an intergovernmental body that governs what happens on the seafloor in international waters, is ..read more
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The Personal Toll of Canada’s Broken Fishing Promises
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by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
August 29, 2020, dawned clear over southwest Nova Scotia. In the cabin of his lobster boat, the Mystique Lady, Matthew Cope was chatting with the other members of his crew as they chugged out from shore. The vessel was bound ..read more
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To Speak the Language of the Land
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
Nearly 200 of us cram into Tarāwhai, a traditional wooden Māori meeting house, under the gaze of the ancestors and deities carved into the posts and walls. We’re here in the home of the Ngāti Tarāwhai tribe, in the middle ..read more
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Caviar Pizzas, New Money, and the Death of an Ancient Fish
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
I am sitting at a slick Manhattan waterfront restaurant on the banks of the East River, New York City, trying to decide why I find the caviar pizza on the menu so disturbing. Jonathan Haffmans, the executive chef of Industry ..read more
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The Destructive Legacy of Failed Aquaculture
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
Aquaculture is big business in Canada. In 2023, open-net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia alone produced 50,000 tonnes of fish worth just over US $350-million. But on June 30, 2029, the federal government’s long-looming ban on open-net-pen salmon farming is ..read more
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Conjuring the Lost Land Beneath the North Sea
Hakai Magazine
by Hakai Magazine
2M ago
The North Sea is a hard place to love. It’s not the cold, or the silty gray-brown waters that seem to suck the brightness out of the sky that make it unappealing, it’s what people have done to it over ..read more
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