Marine Protected Area (MPA) is a significant instrument for fisheries management and conservation. MPAs can safeguard habitat, and ecological processes as well as species diversity, their abundance, size, and densities. In a No-Take Zone (NTZ), these environmental and...
Understanding the Importance of Blue Carbon
Although the term blue carbon has been created around two decades (Lovelock and Duarte, 2019, Nelleman et al., 2008), scientists have already started to do research on the carbon cycle hundred years ago (Falkowski et al., 2000). Blue carbon mainly includes organic and...
Identifying and predicting significant Eunicella verrucosa communities in Jersey through Citizen Science data gathering methodology.
Jersey passed its much anticipated, revised Wildlife Law in 2021. This law replaced the Conservation of Wildlife (Jersey) Law 2000 and is the Islands primary legislation to enact the requirements of the international biodiversity agreements and treaties to which...
Future-proofing fisheries: is increasing sea temperature altering commercial decapod crustacean catch in the bailiwick of jersey?
Global sea surface temperature (SST) has risen ~0.13°C per decade over the 20th century. Ocean warming is strongest in the north-east Atlantic around the UK where SST is increasing approximately six times faster than the global average. Particularly prone to this...
Investigating the carbon sequestration potential of seagrass (Zostera spp.) in St. Catherine’s Bay, Jersey
Countries have more and more policies related to zero carbon emissions because 2050 year is getting closer and closer. Carbon emission reduction and carbon removal are the two main ways for countries to achieve zero emissions. In addition to domestic policies, there...
Population assemblages of seaweeds and gastropods in the East and West of Portelet Bay No-Take Zone
A total of fifty-two species were recorded from Portelet Bay in the study conducted from June to August 2022. The species richness of seaweeds is more in East Portelet. The species richness of gastropods is more in West Portelet. The Shannon diversity index,1-Simpson...