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The Conversation Canada 📰 The Conversation (academic) Oct 13, 2026 · 6 min read Quick Score ○ Unverifiable View full audit trail → C.R.E.E.D. audited

How lessons from fisheries management could help us govern Earth’s orbital space

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Here a Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite monitors Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere.
About 20,000 satellites already circle the Earth, a number that could reach 100,000 by 2030.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 26 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, flies over Los Angeles, June 16, 2025.
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          Fish are renewable biological resources; satellites are depletable mechanical objects. Yet the governance of the high seas and orbital space share similarities. Here a Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite monitors Earth’s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. (ESA/ATG medialab) How lessons from fisheries management could help us govern Earth’s orbital space Published: October 13, 2026 2.07pm EDT Share article Print article The space industry is rapidly expanding. About 20,000 satellites already circle the Earth, a number that could reach 100,000 by 2030.…

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