Houston, We Have An Overfishing Problem

How do we stop overfishing if we don't know who's doing the fishing?
That's today's big question, and my guest is Jennifer Raynor.
Jennifer is an Assistant Professor of natural resource economics at the University of Wisconsin Madison. Before entering academia, she conducted policy-relevant economic research for the U.S. federal government for nearly a decade, most recently at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries.
Jennifer's research focuses on improving the efficiency and sustainability of fisheries and wildlife management, primarily using methods from economics, data science, and remote sensing.
She strives to inform the legislative decision-making process and works closely with state and federal resource managers to design and evaluate conservation policies. She serves on the board of trustees for Global Fishing Watch, and her research has appeared in top journals such as Science, Nature, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Jennifer and her team decided to tackle, 70 percent of our planet. The ocean. And what they discovered about who's trawling our oceans and where could set in motion policy the world over to make fishing drastically more sustainable and safe for everyone on every front.
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INI Book Club:
The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina
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Links:
Read Jennifer's satellite mapping paper in Nature
Read Jennifer's research on the economic benefits of wolves (and Ed Yong's piece about it in the Atlantic)
Follow more of Jennifer's work
Support Global Fishing Watch
Read the Crimes Behind The Seafood You Eat
Read The Outlaw Ocean series
Support the Outlaw Ocean Project

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