{"id":3551,"date":"2016-07-06T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T07:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2016-07-06T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T07:02:37","slug":"crashes-cooking-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/seagrantscholars\/2016\/07\/06\/crashes-cooking-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Crashes, Cooking, and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy July! <\/span><\/p>\n

This week was one of the most eventful, yet most uneventful weeks of my summer so far. Last Monday, I got into a bit of a bike accident that ended in a trip to the emergency room. With a sprained ankle and stitches, I spent a majority of the week confined to the couch. I am endlessly grateful to be hobbling around at this point and am hoping to make a speedy recovery so I\u2019ll still have time to enjoy the rest of Oregon. Huge shout out to my roommates and fellow Summer Scholars, my mentors, Kaety and Kelsey, and the random strangers who have been SO helpful and understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sorry if you’re eating<\/p><\/div>\n

Seafood can be a tricky thing to deal with. Once you\u2019ve got it, what do you do with it? We\u2019re trying to fix this with an eating guide for Shop at the Dock participants. It will list common species to buy off the dock, its favor\/texture, how sustainable it is, and a common and delicious way to cook\u00a0it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This week, I also came across a poignant <\/span>article<\/span><\/a> about how the commercial fishing industry is declining due to warming waters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“The cod isn’t just a fish to David Goethel. It’s his identity, his ticket to middle-class life, his link to a historic industry.<\/p>\n

“I paid for my education, my wife’s education, my house, my kids’ education; my slice of America was paid for on cod,” said Goethel, a 30-year veteran of these waters that once teemed with New England’s signature fish.<\/p>\n

But on this chilly, windy Saturday in April, after 12 hours out in the Gulf of Maine, he has caught exactly two cod, and he feels far removed from the 1990s, when he could catch 2,000 pounds in a day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even having studied it, climate change is definitely one of the more intangible, abstract topics for me. And while the science is crucial, hearing the more humanistic side of climate change really brings the issue home. The article is set on the East Coast, but presents some staggering statistics about declines in catches and also really interesting opinions from fishermen about climate change.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m determined to get back on my bike by the end of the summer, so I\u2019ll finish this post with a little motivational tune. Thanks for reading and have a wonderful\u00a0week!<\/span><\/p>\n