
Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Ph.D. |🇪🇸 |🇪🇺
@g_oceans
IUCN WCPA High Seas Specialist Group 🌊;
Director @KeystoneOcean 🧭;
Towards IPOS team 🔬
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The most grim plankton compilation video I've made. This should only be a beautiful world of microlife. Instead it's a microplastic-polluted, horror movie. Beauty and the beast. ZEISS Microscopy



🚨🚨🚨 Global Fishing Watch is looking for a consultant to help us set up a small grants program for researchers to apply and improve our datasets: job-boards.greenhouse.io/globalfishingw… 🚨🚨🚨 Please share!



⛴️ 35,000 vessels 🗺️ 40 public vessel registries 🛰️ 10 years’ worth of satellite tracking data 👥 See how researchers from Global Fishing Watch, Duke University and Stockholm Resilience Centre joined forces to unmask shifting vessel identities in the global fishing fleet. bit.ly/3IVkpCh


Why does this feel so accurate... "..to date most RFMOs have paid scant attention to fishing’s impact on dependent and associated species or the wider marine environment and biodiversity it contains" ... when it's from 2013? Kristina Gjerde , Duncan Currie , K. Wowkc & Karen Sack

Two pieces I wrote on the IPOS initiative (ipos.earth) came out over the holidays. First, on EJIL: Talk! I focus on two possible problems - depoliticising advice it would give to states, and its ambiguous relationship with 'capacity-building': ejiltalk.org/reforming-ocea…




Thank you Marc Benioff for elevating the importance of the #Ocean on the main stage World Economic Forum 🌊🙌 Key actions to help our Ocean: 🔥 Slow ocean warming 🪸 Address coral bleaching 🎣 Stop overfishing 🗺️ Get to 30X30 with Marine Protected Areas 🌊 Ratify the UN High Seas Treaty ♻️ Pass

If we keep designing protected areas like #climatechange isn’t happening, we’re just locking in failure. Our new paper (led by the great Tin Buenafe) in NatRevBiodivers pushes for #climatesmart #conservation —because reacting after it is just damage control nature.com/articles/s4435…

These High Seas Alliance briefings, recommendations and key messages are the product of months of intensive work and consultation by the incredibly knowledgable, dedicated & hardworking HSA family. Strongly recommended #reading for anyone interested in #BBNJPrepCom.

In a major boost for Food and Agriculture Organization's Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate #Illegal, #Unreported and #Unregulated #Fishing, China has submitted its instrument of accession. The agreement now covers countries responsible for >85% of global fish landings. Fisheries & Aquaculture