JAKARTA The wild populations that sustain a significant Indonesian fishery are more depleted than the government had estimated, as highlighted by a recent scientific study. The authors have called for a reevaluation of the method used to assess fish stocks to address the overexploitation of these populations. The stocks of eight economically valuable fish […]
JAKARTA Indonesia has put nearly a tenth of its national waters, the sixth-largest maritime jurisdiction of any country, under some form of protection. But poor management means these protected areas haven’t been to achieve their biodiversity conservation goals, a new study says. Indonesia’s 411 marine protected areas parks, reserves and maritime conservation areas […]
More than a third of all elasmobranch (shark and ray) species are at risk of extinction due to overfishing. Indonesia is both a hotspot of elasmobranch biodiversity and one of the leading shark and ray exporters in the world, putting already critically endangered species such as hammerhead sharks and wedgefish under great pressure. Reducing that […]
Rhode Island is about to get stimulus money from the federal government. How should it be spent?
We ask some of Rhode Islandâs officials and thought leaders how they think the money would best be put to use
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated March 8, 2021, 6:20 p.m.
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Elle Wibisono, who was recently named a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow, where she and two other University of Rhode Island graduates will spend the next year in Washington D.C. to work on ocean and coastal policy issues.
Wibisono received her Ph.D. in sustainable fisheries from URI this past call and has been placed in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather Subcommittee.
Q: What initially made you interested in pursuing a career in ocean conservation?
Wibisono: Growing up in Indonesia, the hotspot for coral reefs, I was a scuba diver from a young age. During a scuba diving trip in the Komodo Islands at the age of 13, I was struck by the beauty and abundance of colors and life underwater that I’d never seen before, while also being floored by some sites that were completely destroyed due to blast fishing. The management of the area is a lot better now, but at that time, I was utterly heartbroken by what I witnes