A few days ago I completed enough edits to a project I’ve been working on in my spare time to go live with OpenFisheries.org. The site is in early beta, and for now shows a Protovis implementation of what graphics on the site will look like as the dynamic elements are added. The state of [...]

I’m a big proponent of data backups. Dropbox (which I’ve discussed before) saved me countless hours of pain and work when my hard drive crashed beyond repair on my desktop at work last year. I had only been at the job for a few months at the time but I would have lost absolutely everything [...]

Related to my recent post on scientific collaboration, I’ve finally been invited to join InfoChimps.org, a website and aggregates and searches datasets from users. The site is very young and so far I’ve found very few datasets on concerning fisheries economics save for U.S.A. catch and value data for 1960-2005. For this particular dataset, it [...]

One of the projects that I’ve had the pleasure of working on in the past year has been researching government support of the fishing industry around the world. While government may be well-meaning in supporting fishermen when times get tough, subsidizing this industry not only has important implications for free-trade but can augment the incentive [...]