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Biologists from Kiel and Vancouver present a simple way to estimate Maximum Sustainable Yield Up to now, methods to estimate the maximum sustainable yield (MSY) of fish stocks are very complex and, as a consequence, expensive. However, Dr Rainer Froese, biologist with GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany) and Dr Steven Martell, biologist with the University of British Columbia (Canada) have recently presented a new, much simpler method to estimate the MSY. This method...

Major Clean Energy Job Creation Boom Seen for Economically Struggling Hoosier State INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Wind power, biomass, and other sources of renewable energy will bring significant job creation, economic investment and new tax revenues to Indiana's struggling rural communities, according to a new report released today by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "Facing an unprecedented set of economic challenges, Indiana stands at a new crossroads and...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- At a time when a quarter of the world's fisheries are considered depleted, can commercial fishermen make more money by fishing less?A study published in the Friday edition of the journal Science says they can - with one condition.They must be in a cooperative fishery, like those operating in New Zealand and Australia, where individual fishermen own a share of the total harvest rather than the competitive fisheries more common in the United States, where it's a race to...