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There's also a role for consumer awareness and boycotts to reduce wasteful practices, like shark finning, and push fishing industries towards more sustainable practices.
He slapped me on the knee and said, "I want to go fishing."
I said, "That, I know how to do." Harold went fishing the next day.
Now, the drones survey the fishing ground using acoustics, i.e., a sonar.
Whether here in New York or in Houston or Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia, Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto and Paris, cities big and small all over the world are reclaiming and reinventing this infrastructure for themselves, including the mother of all catalyst infrastructure projects, the Los Angeles River, the revitalization effort for which similarly started as a grassroots movement, has developed into a cultural momentum, and is now in the early stages of being transformed into some kind of life-affirming infrastructure again, this one with trails and parks and fishing and boating and community revitalization, and of course, water quality and flood control.
So, next time you hear anybody derisively telling you that this type of research is a simple fishing expedition, I hope that you'll remember the trip that we just took.
And I've seen it play out everywhere, from the forest communities of West Africa, to the rural fishing villages of Alaska.
The matriarch shows the younger whales where to find the most fertile fishing grounds.
One group in Seattle decided to pool their stipends together and rented a workspace on a fishing pier.
I've seen sort of OK pictures of bycatch, the animals accidentally scooped up while fishing for a specific species.
This is called fishing down the food chain.
It's got these fishing lures on the bottom.
When Steve Sillett gets up into a big Redwood, he fires an arrow, which trails a fishing line, which gets over a branch in the tree, and then you ascend up a rope which has been dragged into the tree by the line.
This coral reef overlaps with that international fishing route, intersects with this fish hatchery.
Coastal economies often rely on fishing and tourism.
Millions of tons of discarded fishing nets, gear that continues to kill.
97 percent of the land in the Galapagos Islands is protected, but the adjacent sea is being ravaged by fishing.
You've worked in mining, you've worked in fishing, you've worked in steel, you've worked in every major industry.
(Imitates fishing cat) That's my impersonation of a fishing cat, which actually sounds more like this.
(Prerecorded fishing cat sounds) It's a cat that loves water, loves to fish, and lives in some of the most unique and valuable ecosystems on earth: the wetlands and mangrove forests of South and Southeast Asia.
Aren't they fishing awesome?
Now, we don't know fishing cats as well as we do tigers, but what we've learned is that these cats can be a flagship species to a globally important ecosystem, and a visual bait attached to a strong line for conservation.
Like many endangered species, fishing cats are threatened by habitat loss, mainly because of our international demand for farmed fish and shrimp, and the deforestation of nearly half the historic mangrove cover in South and Southeast Asia.
Mangroves, on the other hand, are much more than just habitat to the fishing cat.
When we shared images of these fishing cats with local people, we were able to build pride among them about a globally revered endangered species and ecosystem in their backyards.
Meet Santosh, a 19-year-old boy who not only became a conservation professional after working with us for just over a year but also went on to involve many local fishermen in helping study and protect fishing cats.
Meet Moshi, a tribal poacher, who not only stopped hunting and became our most prized conservationist, but also used his traditional knowledge to educate his entire community to stop hunting fishing cats, otters and the many other threatened species that live in the mangroves in his backyard.
A win-win-win for fishing cats, local people and the global community.
These stories show us that we can all be part of a future where fishing cats and the lost mangrove forests are protected and restored by fishermen themselves, creating carbon sinks that can help offset our ecological footprints.
So while the fishing cat may be small, I hope that we've been able to help make it a big deal.
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