Jay Odell
Jay Odell is the mid-Atlantic marine program director for the Nature Conservancy. His areas of expertise and interest include marine ecology, fisheries policy, ecological restoration, and the human dimensions of natural resource management. In his spare time, Jay likes to talk about fish — and also to catch, cook, eat and sing about them. He worked in Panama, Puget Sound and New Hampshire before his return to the Chesapeake Bay region, where he works to advance marine biodiversity conservation at local and large scales.
Posts by Jay Odell:
Ocean Hope Rising: Detente in Fish Land
Many of us out here in Fishlandia (that’s the world of people who research. conserve and care about fish and fish habitat) were more than a bit surprised and very delighted to hear of new collaborative work undertaken by 21 of the world’s top marine fish scientists over the last two years and published last [...]
Posted: August 5th, 2009 under Conservation Issues, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Science.
Tags: catch reduction, catch shares, Fish, fish catch reduction, fish conservation, fish ecologist, fish management science, fishermen incentive, fishery management, fishing gear restriction, Hilborn, Jay Odell, marine, Marine Protected Areas, Michael Fogarty, NOAA, overfishing, Science magazine, small scale fishing, Worm
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A Sea Change We Can Believe In
On December 21, 2008, President Obama said, “Science holds the key to our survival as a planet.”
And then he backed that up by appointing Jane Lubchenco to head up NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Dr. Lubchenco is one of the most distinguished marine ecologists of this century, and I’m thrilled to see her take the [...]
Posted: June 16th, 2009 under Fish, Habitats, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, Science, The Nature Conservancy.
Tags: Atlantic Coast, Council on Envrironmental Quality, Jane Lubchenco, Jay Odell, Joint Ocean Commission, marine spatial planning, NOAA, obama administration, ocean conservation, ocean planning, ocean task force, oceans, offshore wind energy, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy
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MARCO Launched, and the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Smiles
Rising to meet the United States’ urgent ocean conservation challenges requires coordinated actions at regional scales.
Around the nation, groups of states and federal partners have recognized that ecosystems aren’t aligned with political boundaries — in other words, fish don’t know or care which state of the union they are in, but they do need clean water [...]
Posted: June 12th, 2009 under Climate Change, Conservation Issues, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Policy, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Delaware, Delaware ocean, ecosystem management, Fish, governance, Jay Odell, MARCO, marine conservation, Maryland, Maryland ocean, Mid-Atlantic, Nancy Sutley, Nature Conservancy, New Jersey, New Jersey ocean, New York, New York ocean, NOAA, NRDC, ocean acidification, ocean conservation, Oceans & Coasts, Sam Waterson, Sarah Chasis, Virginia, Virginia ocean
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Some Good Blue News: Ocean Success Stories
The International Marine Conservation Congress was held late last month at the Smithsonian Institution’s Natural History Museum in Washington D.C. — about 1,000 ocean scientists, advocates and educators from all corners of Planet Ocean gathering to share research and new ideas on improving ocean conservation and management.
And the big news out of the congress? That [...]
Posted: June 5th, 2009 under Oceans & Coasts, Science, The Nature Conservancy, United States.
Tags: Ann Birch, Barry Truitt, bay scallop, blue crab, Cape Canaveral National Seashore, Carl LoBue, eco-graffiti, eelgrass, eelgrass seed, Great South Bay, Indian River Lagoon, Jay Odell, Kemp's ridley, Larry Crowder, Linda Walter, Long Island clam, marine, marine conservation, ocean good news, oyster quilt, oyster reef, oyster restoration, Robert Orth, sea turtle, seagrass restoration, seahorses, Virginia Coastal Program, Virginia Coastal Reserve, Virginia nature
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People + Fish + Wonder = Conservation
I’ve been creating (and embellishing) fish stories ever since my grandfather took me to the North Carolina mountains to teach me the alchemy that transformed the grasshoppers we caught together into rainbows of flipping shining scales in a five-year-old boy’s hands.
Subsequent initiations by father and great-grandfather led to a life of piscatorial pursuits, more fishing [...]
Posted: March 26th, 2009 under Asia Pacific, Conservation Issues, Coral Reefs, Fish, Oceans & Coasts, Science.
Tags: bamboo coral, Blogfish, Calypso Club, fishing, Indonesia, Jacques Cousteau, Jay Odell, marine, marine conservation, marine scientist, Michael Phelps, ocean conservation, oceans, oceans and coasts, Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, PETA, sea kitten
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