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Japan Catches 59 Whales Off Northern Island
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Japan said Monday it has caught 59 whales — one short of the maximum allowed by international guidelines — under a research program that critics say is a cover for commercial whaling
Stimulus Money Pays Fishermen To Snare Lost Nets
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Commercial seafood divers will be paid to collect old fishing nets
NOAA Bans Commercial Harvesting Of Krill
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) today published a final rule in the Federal Register prohibiting the harvesting of krill off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington
'Bycatch' Whaling A Growing Threat To Coastal Whales
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Scientists are warning that a new form of unregulated whaling has emerged along the coastlines of Japan and South Korea, where the commercial sale of whales killed as fisheries "bycatch" is...
Blue Whales Re-establishing Former Migration Patterns
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Scientists have documented the first known migration of blue whales from the coast of California to areas off British Columbia and the Gulf of Alaska since the end of commercial whaling in 1965
High Human Impact Ocean Areas Along US West Coast Mapped
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Climate change, fishing and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States
NOAA Issues Atlantic Shark Commercial Fishery Update
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NOAA released the preliminary 2009 updateof the Atlantic Commercial Shark Fishery. The report indicates both quotas as well as current reported catches to-date
Sawfish Slaughter In Australia
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Pictures and video have emerged of dozens of sawfish that have been killed by commercial fishermen near the area, south-west of Darwin
New Entry Level Nikon DSLR Leaked (D60 Replacement?)
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Rumors have surfaced online about a commercial shoot in Croatia for a new entry level Nikon DSLR. It appears to be the first Nikon DSLR with a swivel out LCD. Folks are calling it the D5000. There...
OCEANA TV Shows Powerful Images Of Shark Finning
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The programme "On the alert" dedicates its first episode to the critical situation of sharks, now a target of commercial fishing
Arctic Sea Partly Closed to Fishing
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federal fishery panel voted Thursday to close off a large swath of the Arctic sea to commercial fishing
Science Meets Seafood, And The Result Is Delicious
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An interesting article about "Super abs," commercially harvested abalone for eating.
Commericial Ships Responsible For Manatee Deaths
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More news on the ongoing problem of boat-manatee interactions.
One Million Tons of Fish Discarded In The North Sea Annually
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It always saddens me to here these continual reports come through the news wires. Commercial fishing has to be one of the most wasteful practices on earth. So much is by-catch - and it is...
Argentina Bans Commercial Fishing In Important Marine Area
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Argentina banns commerical fishing along a submerged island.
Getty And Flickr Strike Deal For Image Licensing
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The Yahoo owned photo site, which is popular among many of our readers, will now allow Getty to directly contact and offer licensing agreements to photographers with galleries on Flickr
Reef Fish Rebound in 'No-Take' Zones
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The controversial move to shut out commercial and recreational fishers from vast areas of the Great Barrier Reef has led to a rapid increase in fish populations
Japan Defends Whale Hunting
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Japan defended its practice of 'scientific' whale hunting at the annual International Whaling Commission meeting on Wednesday, insisting it had yielded important scientific results
Commercial Fishing For Large Sharks In Louisiana Remains Closed
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Commercial fishing for large coastal sharks in Louisiana will remain closed until at least 2009. A sign of the health of the shark populations worldwide
Greenland Whale Hunt 'Commercial'
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland's whaling, held under rules permitting subsistence hunting, has become too commercial in character
"Whale Wisdom - A Mother Humpback's View" By Shawn Heinrichs
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A new conservation short film, "Whale Wisdom - A Mother Humpback's View" has just been released by Shawn Heinrichs, an award winning independent filmmaker. The film has been produced in English and...
Go-ahead for Iceland's Whale Hunt
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Iceland's commercial whale hunt is set to begin, after the government granted a small minke quota on Monday
Conceptual Underwater Photography Project - Jason Heller
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Images from a conceptual underwater photo shoot by Jason Heller
Squaring the Diamond Mesh- WWF
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A new report from WWF encourages the switch from the unselective diamond-mesh nets currently used by bottom-trawlers in the Mediterranean to more selective square-mesh nets, sooner than the...
HSI and The HSUS Seal-Hunt Observers: Video Evidence Proves Innocence
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Today, representatives of The Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International return to court to refute charges relating to technical violations of Canada's Fisheries Act...
Deep-Sea Sharks Wired For Sound
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Deep-sea sharks have been tagged and tracked and their habitats precisely mapped in world-first research to test the conservation value of areas closed to commercial fishing.
Norway Keeps Whaling Quota, Draws Ire
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Norway has set a commercial whaling quota of 1,052 minke whales in 2008, unchanged from last year, drawing criticism from environmental groups pressuring Oslo to join the international community...
Less Fish Out, Means More Nitrogen In
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Using data provided by the United Nations, researchers found that commercial fishing has played an important, yet declining, role in removing man-made nitrogen from coastal waters.
30 'Finned' Sharks Washed Up On New Zealand Beach
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In December a New Zealand Department of Conservation ranger came across a gruesome find in the Marlborough Sounds: the bloodied carcasses of 30 sand sharks whose fins had been cut off by commercial...
Scuba Diving Banned in Cape Coast Abalone Areas
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In a bid to protect the fast- diminishing perlemoen [abalone] stocks, Environment Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk has imposed a ban on scuba diving and snorkelling in areas along the Cape coast....
Algae Emerges as a Potential Fuel Source
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The 16 big flasks of bubbling bright green liquids in Roger Ruan's laboratory at the University of Minnesota are part of a new boom in renewable energy research.
Driven by renewed investment as...
Call for action to save Wales marine life
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WWF Cymru is calling on Prime Minister Gordon Brown to include a full Marine Bill in the Queen's Speech to save wildlife in Wales for future generations.
The charity has made the plea ahead of...
4 more Gulf fish may get protection
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As the federal government is set to finalize stricter limits on fishing the Gulf of Mexico's popular red snapper, fisheries regulators are under heightened pressure to rebuild at least four other...
Trial Of Seal Hunt Observers Threatens Right To Witness Annual Slaughter
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Five defendants are set to stand trial in the Magdalen Islands Thursday, accused of violating their observation permits during the 2006 East Coast seal hunt. The defendants are representatives of...
Whale Sanctuary Call In Advance Of 2008 IWC Congress
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Representatives from 15 Latin American non-governmental organizations specializing in cetacean research called last week upon Chileus parliament to protect whales against commercial and scientific...
Consensus Declaration On Coral Reef Futures
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More than 50 scientists of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies today declared the following statements unanimously:
uA‚A? We call on all societies and governments to immediately...
Global Warming Good For Greenland?
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For some in Greenland these days, the grass is looking greener.
Rapid thawing brought on by global warming on the world's largest island has opened up new opportunities for agriculture,...
Review: H2O By Howard Schatz
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Underwater photography is comprised of many sub-segments, one of which being fashion and commercial photography. On top of this pile stands Howard Schatz.
H2O can be easily summed up in one...
Review: "H2O" by Howard Schatz
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Underwater photography is comprised of many sub-segments, one of which being fashion and commercial photography. On top of this pile stands Howard Schatz...
Underwater Photographer's Concept Car: The Nissan NV200
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We're always on the lookout for new and interesting news from the field. Working with some of the top pros in the world would inevitably uncover some really unique stories, about the scientific,...
Underwater Photographer's Concept Car: The Nissan NV200
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We're always on the lookout for new and interesting news from the field. Working with some of the top pros in the world would inevitably uncover some really unique stories, about the scientific,...
Whaling Battle Moves To YouTube
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The Australian government has launched an anti-whaling message aimed at Japanese children on video-sharing internet site YouTube.
In the video, which carries Japanese subtitles, Environment...
California Sea Otters Key To Coastline Ecosystem: Scientists
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California's delicate marine environment could be threatened by the declining numbers of sea otters decimated by pollution, commercial fishing, and mysterious brain infections, scientists say....
Could Iron Fertilization Of Oceans Combat Global Warming?
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Several times over the past century, scientists and environmental engineers have proposed spreading slurries of dissolved iron into the oceans in order to uA…aˆ?fertilizeuA‚A? the waters and...
Federal Report Shows Sea Turtle Declines
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After encouraging gains in the 1990s, populations of loggerhead sea turtles are now dropping, primarily because of commercial fishing, according to a federal review.
The report stops short of...
Loggerhead Sea Turtles Threatened With Extinction
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All loggerhead sea turtle nesting subpopulations in the North Atlantic with trend data available are declining according to a new study released yesterday by the National Marine Fisheries Service...
CANON's 21.1MP EOS-1Ds MARK III DSLR
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The new 21.1-megapixel, full-frame Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Digital SLR* camera brings the power of Canon U.S.A., Inc.us professional imaging excellence and innovation into sharper focus than ever...
Canon U.S.A.'s New Line-Leading, 21.1-Megapixel, Full Frame EOS-1Ds Mark III Digital SLR
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The new 21.1-megapixel, full-frame Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III Digital SLR* camera brings the power of Canon U.S.A., Inc.'s professional imaging excellence and innovation into sharper focus than...
Tuna Demand Pressures Wild Stocks
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Atlantic bluefin tuna swim inside floating tanks that tow wild fish from the waters off Libya to tuna ranches off Sicily, Italy.
The environmental group Greenpeace released this image on May 30,...
Tagged Tuna Reveal Migration Secrets
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High-tech electronic tags are unveiling new insights into the migration and spawning secrets of Atlantic bluefin tuna, according to a pair of new studies.
The work could lead to better...
Rare Right Whales Fight With The Oil & Gas Industry
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Scientists are hunting this summer for one of the most precariously positioned animals on the planet _ Pacific right whales.
The whales, once prized by commercial whalers, have been teetering on...
Sandbar Sharks Get Some Help
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Federal fisheries officials are taking additional steps to protect sandbar sharks.
A new rule would ban the recreational harvest of sandbar sharks - recognizable by their long pectoral fins -...
Fishing Restraints Save Species
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California Fish and Game Commission recently voted to close approximately 200 square miles of coastal waters and declared them off-limits for fishing this summer.
This ocean protection plan...
NOAA Proposes Stringent Limits To Sandbar Shark Fishing
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NOAA Fisheries Service is proposing that commercial and recreational fishing for sandbar sharks be significantly reduced and limited to only those commercial vessels that take part in a shark...
Glow-in-the-Dark Sharks At Risk?
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One of the first ever detailed studies on deep water lantern sharks, so named for their ability to glow in the dark, has found they are in danger of extinction.
Recent studies have linked...
Coral Reef Fish Need Decades Or Longer To Recover
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In the longest running study on how fish populations in coral reef systems recover from heavy exploitation, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and others have found that the...
New Whale-Safe Lobster Fishing Requirements In Maine
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A legal settlement announced Tuesday will let Maine lobstermen know early this fall whether they will be forced to spend thousands of dollars for new whale-safe gear and change their traditional...
Final Submissions In Shark Protection Case
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Final submissions are expected to be heard today in a court case aimed at protecting grey nurse sharks.
The Nature Conservation Council's Megan Kessler says the main threat to the sharks is...
Dubai - Hamour Danger
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Fans of UAE diet staple the Hamour fish could be left feeling hungry if action is not taken to protect it from over-fishing, according to Dubai environmentalists. EWS-WWF has categorised the...
Baby Sea Turtles Protected By Cutting Edge Lighting
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sea turtle nesting season up and down the east coast of Florida, and once again, the baby sea turtle population is at risk. Baby sea turtles are drawn into harm's way because they are attracted to...
Officials Trying To Save Coral Reef Off Coast Of Florida
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Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine.
It is not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon, but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate...
Trade Restrictions Approved For Endangered Rays
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The Hague, The Netherlands - Trade restrictions have been approved for critically endangered sawfish, large rays related to sharks.
Delegates attending a meeting of the Convention on...
A Century Old Whale?
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fragment of a weapon used by commercial whalers in the 1800s was found in a massive bowhead whale caught off Alaska last month, suggesting it may be more than a century old, officials said Tuesday....
The Fate Of Whales Hangs In The Balance
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The fate of the great whales hung in the balance on Monday as officials from 75 nations opened talks amid pressure, notably from Japan, to reverse a ban on commercial hunting of the mammals.
As...
Conciliation Talk At Whaling Meet
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The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will open in Alaska later with a new spirit of conciliation in the air.
Pro and anti-whaling countries, including Japan, say...
Shark Law's Problem Is 'bycatch' Loophole
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Mexico's NOM-0-29 seems positive on the surface, but some question whether it sufficiently protects fish such as marlin, sailfish and dorado that have been off-limits to commercial fishermen....
Wreck Exploration Project To Go Ahead In Japan
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On the 2nd September 2006 the famous first class luxury liner Stella Polaris sank off the coast of Kushimoto, Japan. The ship sank to a depth of 72 meters, and has never been dived by commercial or...
Underwater Spot Wins A Clio
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On the strength of its Aqualtus Washing Machine "Underwater World" spot, Leo Burnett Italia, Milan, won the Grand Clio in the TV/cinema competition at the 48th annual International Clio...
Marine Reserves Could Save Coral Reefs (Duh!)
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Threatened coral reefs could be given a helping hand by establishing marine reserves, according to a research team led by the University of Exeter. Marine reserves have already proved to be a...
Dominica - "the Nature Island" - Supports Whaling
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Dominica has rejected criticism that its vote on the International Whaling Commission (IWC) was up for sale, after the prime minister returned from Japan and renewed his support for commercial...
Glow Sticks May Lure Sea Turtles To Death
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The same glow sticks that lighten up raves and Halloween may be tempting thousands of sea turtles to their deaths, a new study says.
Used to attract fish to hooks on miles-long lines, the...
Deep Sea Fish Growing Slower Due To Global Warming
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Changes in ocean temperature have altered the growth rates of commercially harvested fish over the past century, according to a new study published in this week's early online edition of the...
This Earth Day, Remember The Deep-sea
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The goblin shark (shown here) and the frill shark are two of the rarest and deepest dwelling of sharks. Only two of each species have been taken in North America EVER. That's why researcher Jose...
South Africa: Commercial Fishing Under Way In Protected Areas
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Commercial fishing is being carried out within five of South Africa's declared marine protected areas (MPAs), the department of environmental affairs conceded.
"Commercial fishing is...
How Anglers Are Killing The Grey Nurse Shark
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Some legal action to push the Australian government to do more about the conservation of Grey Nurse Sharks than just announcing the fact is is now critically endangered is underway at the moment....
'Landmark' Marine Life Plan Passes In California
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One of the nation's most ambitious plans to protect marine life was approved Friday when a state panel voted to ban or restrict fishing across more than 200 square miles of water off Central...
MK2 Dives For Cousteau Rights
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MK2 has obtained the 10 year rights to most of the film catalog of Jacques-Yves Cousteau from Europe Images International. The cinematic collection of one of the pioneers of underwater photography...
End The Seal Hunt By Using Your Buying Power!
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Last year, the hunt left more than 350,000 seals dead -- almost all of them were babies as young as 12 days of age. One of our most effective weapons against the hunt is a boycott of Canadian...
Deadly Longline Fishing Can Return To California
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For 30 years, California has had a ban on longline swordfish fishing because of the risks to other marine animals, including the endangered leatherback sea turtle.
On Friday, that ban will be in...
Despite Ban, Norway Set To Begin Minke Whale Hunt
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Around 30 boats are licensed to take part in the hunt which can kill more than a thousand minke whales during a five month season starting on 1st April. Despite an international ban on commercial...
Whaling And Whale Watching Go Head To Head
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Tourism based on ecological ideals like whale watching and economical perspectives like whaling, as in the killing of whales, do not mix.
The largest animals to have ever lived on planet earth,...
China's Turtle Farms Threaten Rare Species
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China's hunger for turtle meat, which has sparked a conservation crisis across Asia since the 1980s, is increasingly being met by farm-raised animals.
But the rapid expansion of commercial...
Twenty Of World's 162 Grouper Species Threatened With Extinction
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The first comprehensive assessment of the world's 162 species of grouper, a culinary favorite and important commercial fish, found that 20 are threatened with extinction unless proper management or...
Chasing Turtles In South Florida
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Step through the rustic doors of Gumbo Limbo Nature Center in Boca Raton's Red Reef Park, and you find a world seemingly far removed from the temporal and commercial concerns symbolized by A1A just...
Deep Mystery: How Huge Whales Hunt Jumbo Squid
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In the cold, dark abyss of the Pacific lurk thousands of aptly named jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas), aggressive carnivores up to six feet long and 100 pounds nicknamed "red devils" by...
Aquarium Fish Threatened With Extinction Just Months After Discovery
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Just months after the discovery of a colorful new aquarium fish in Southeast Asia, worldwide demand and intense exportation are already causing concern about the survival of the species.
The...
Commercial Fishing - Billions Of Pounds
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One hundred and ninety billion pounds of fish; 190,000,000,000 pounds a number so large as to be virtually incomprehensible yet, according to recent statistics, one hundred and ninety billion...
Mexico Passes Shark Finning Ban
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In a surprising move, the Mexican government has recently published sweeping new regulations and protections for sharks, including a shark finning ban, an extension of the moratorium on new...
Groups File Suit To Protect Critically Endangered Whales
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Wildlife protection and ocean conservation groups yesterday sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to protect three endangered whale species North Atlantic right whales, humpbacks,...
Adobe Lightroom Ships
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, one of the first technologies to be featured on Adobe Labs, is now shipping and available for immediate purchase on Adobe.com. In conjunction with its commercial...
Long-lived Deep-sea Fishes Imperiled By Technology, Overfishing
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Many commercially prized fish from the depths of the world's oceans are severely threatened by over-fishing and the species' ability to recover is constrained by the fishes' long lifespans and low...
Japan Opens Whaling Conference
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Japan opened an international whaling conference Tuesday by blasting a boycott by dozens of anti-whaling nations, saying their absence would block much-needed reforms of the commission that sets...
Hawaii: Artificial Reef Could Raise Fish Population
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The state wants to bring more fish to Oahu, but first it has to hook the community with its plan.
The state Department of Land and Natural Resources' fifth shallow-water artificial reef would be...
Turtles And Birdlife At Risk From Long-line Fishing
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Wildlife campaigners are calling for measures to protect sea turtles, cahows and other creatures potentially at risk from long-line fishing vessels.
The Ministry of Environment is currently...
Japan To Cut Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Catch By 23%
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Japan today agreed to cut its catch of Atlantic bluefin tuna by almost a quarter over the next four years in the latest attempt to save the fish from commercial extinction.
Environmental groups...
Hands On: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0
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Lucky us -- we got to try Lightroom 1.0 just before its official debut. This milestone for Adobe radically rearranges key Photoshop functions within a super-streamlined virtual workspace designed...
Iceland Leaves Slaughtered Whales To Rot
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Greenpeace has uncovered more than 170 tons of rotting whale meat in an Icelandic dump site, just months after Iceland reopened commercial whaling and killed seven endangered fin whales. Another...
Something Seems Fishy
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The words "Japan" and "conservation" are being used in the same sentence. Tuna conservation talks began today in Japan to find ways to avoid commercial extinction of tuna species that have been...
Tuna Stocks Sink - Manage It Right Or Lose It!
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Tuna are fast disappearing, with important stocks at high risk of commercial extinction due to weak management, warns a WWF briefing ahead of the first meeting of government members of the world's...
What Is The Most Endangered Marine Mammal In The World?
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According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the North Pacific Right Whale -- once ranging from Baja California to Alaska -- is the most endangered large whale in the world, with perhaps as...
BITE BACK - Commercial Whaling
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BITE BACK 30 / 12 / 06
BITE BACK - Commercial Whaling
By John Nightingale
Iceland's announcement of its intention to resume commercial whaling, immediately followed by the slaughter of...
Ocean Temperature Predicts Spread Of Marine Species
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Scientists can predict how the distance marine larvae travel varies with ocean temperature - a key component in conservation and management of fish, shellfish and other marine species - according...
Seagrass Decline Indicate Bigger Problems
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To many coastal residents, a flowering plant growing in long, open meadows underwater is nothing more than that gross, slimy thing their feet trample when wading or fishing.
Fishermen and...
Bush Says U.S. Committed To Strong Fishing Industries
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President Bush said Saturday the country is committed to ensuring strong commercial and recreational fishing, praising legislation that overhauls management of marine fisheries and strengthens...
WWF Urges Drastic Action To Save Mediterranean Tuna
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The environmental group WWF urged the global body in charge of tuna conservation to take drastic measures to prevent the extinction of the Mediterranean's bluefin tuna.
"Drastic measures are...
Toshiba Introduces Highest Capacity Class 4 SDHC Memory Card
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Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc., (TAEC)* and its parent, Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba), today announced the global launch of the latest addition to its new series of high-capacity SDHC Memory...
Response From Iceland To An Anti-whaling Letter
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I and other Plankton Forum members got this form letter in response to an action letter sent through the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society website. What this letter says to me is that...
UN Report: Bottom Trawlers Causing Irreparable Damage To Ocean Floor
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A new United Nations report says the fishing practice known as bottom trawling is destroying irreplaceable coral and underwater mountains, and it says the damage cannot be repaired.
Some...
A Closer Look At The Numbers Behind The Prediction Of Fish Species Decline
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This is a great numeric illustration of the 2048 article from yesterday's blog post about the impact of marine species loss.
2048: The estimated date at which stocks of commercial fishing...
Divers Find Human Bone While Diving
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There are lots of things divers DON'T want to see while underwater. For example, I would be less than thrilled about finding a pipe bomb; commercial-grade explosives; or random dive gear on an oil...
Invasion Of The Snowflake Coral
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For more than a year, conservation workers have been quietly battling one of Hawaii's most serious aquatic invasive species -- snowflake coral -- under the only commercial pier in Kauai's Port...
10,000 Sea Turtles Authorized For Kills
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The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) allows commercial fishermen to kill almost 10,000 sea turtles annually and injure 334,000 more, according to a report released last week by Oceana, an...
Japan Catches 35 Whales Near Hokkaido
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Japan has caught 35 whales off the coast of the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, officials say, under a research program that critics say is disguised commercial whaling.
The 42-day...
Whales For Saving By EBay Auction
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The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) will auction "rights" to a whale's life on the online site.
WSPA wants to raise $180,000 (A‚A?95,000), the value of meat from a...
There's Good Money To Be Made By Those Willing To Tackle Underwater Oil And Gas Work
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It used to be a novelty for Mike Oden to stick a thumbtack into the map on his office wall. Each tack meant the recruiter at Houston's Ocean Corp., one of the nation's biggest commercial diving...
Donald Tipton Gallery Launched This Week
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DONALD TIPTON began his professional photographic career in 1982 and has worked in commercial and advertising photography ever since. His underwater work is a celebration of color, texture, and...
Update: Please Boycott Canadian Seafood And Products
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Canada's commercial seal "hunt" is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world.
Canada's 2006 quota for killing seals: 325,000 for the regular commercial...
Icelandic Whalers Kill First Fin Whale
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Icelandic whalers have killed their first fin whale since the country announced last week it was resuming commercial whaling despite an international ban. Icelandic daily Morgunbladid said a...
Edit Your Images And Video On A Samsung Ultra-Wide 30" LCD Monitor
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Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a world-leading manufacturer of professional LCD and PDP display products, today introduced the SyncMaster 305T, an ultra-wide, high-resolution 30-inch TFT-LCD...
Archival Prints: 'Inkjet' No Longer A Dirty Word
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I'm told that Paul Strand printed on platinum for as long as possible, holding out against silver and even having the folks who were producing his paper double-coat it so it was more platinum than...
The Turtle War
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If people were not allowed to own chickens and if chicken eggs and meat could not be legally sold, how many chickens would there be? The reason chickens, cattle, catfish, and goldfish are not...
Featured Gallery: Chris Ross
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This week's gallery is from Chris Ross.
He shoots for commercial clients such as Mercury Marine, O'neill, Indian Motorcycles, Sports Illustrated, and Outside Magazine. The oceans are where his...
Landmark Ocean Protections Put In Place In California
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After years of delay and controversy, a wide swath of waters off the Central Coast became marine reserves Tuesday, the first stage of a pioneering plan expected to serve as a model for the rest of...
Reef Relief: Buoys Help Protect Coral
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On Thursday, state officials started installing marking buoys around the preserve in Martin County, home to a 4.7-mile limestone-based reef.
Boaters will be able to tether to six mooring buoys,...
UK Government Moves Unveiled To Safeguard Threatened Shark Species
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The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published proposals to stop new fisheries targeting tope - a large coastal shark - after receiving reports last year that a commercial...
Northwestern Hawaiian Islands: Images
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The Ocean Conservancy posted a gallery of images and video clips in light of President Bush's action of protecting one of the last intact marine ecosystems in the world, one that is home to sharks,...
Kingston High-Capacity 8-GB CompactFlash Card
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Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, announced it is expanding its line of CompactFlash Elite Pro cards with the addition of a new 8-GB card. The card...
International Sea Turtle Swimway Proposed In Gulf Of Mexico
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The world's top sea turtle experts are calling on both the United States and Mexico to provide more protection for the Kemp's ridley sea turtles in the Gulf of Mexico. A resolution passed in Crete...
Concern For Bloody Bay
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Following a meeting of the Marine Conservation Board (MCB) on 31 March, two more watersports businesses were granted commercial licenses to dive in the Marine Park off the coast of Little Cayman....
Researcher: Seagrass In Decline Worldwide; Human Activity Is To Blame
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Around the world, seagrass beds - shallow-water ecosystems that are important habitats, food sources, and sediment stabilizers - are in decline, says Frederick Short, research professor of natural...
Fishing Area Closed After Coral-garden Issue Raised
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State of Alaska officials opened new ocean waters off the remote Aleutian Islands for commercial fishing this week, only to immediately shut them down because they learned they are home to rare...
Blue Whales Still Increasing, Study Finds
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The slow but steady comeback of the blue whale - the biggest creature to have lived on Earth that was driven nearly to extinction by commercial whalers - is continuing, the latest whale research...
Scientists: Too Many Fish Snared By Accident
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Commercial fisheries in the U.S. kill a pound of fish for every four pounds intentionally caught, jeopardizing efforts to restore some struggling stocks, scientists said Wednesday...
Illegal Italian Driftnet Fishing Boat Tries To Ram Oceana's U.s.-flagged Vessel Ranger
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Oceana's research catamaran, Ranger,
filming and photographing illegal driftnet fishing off southern Italy, was chased in the high seas and narrowly escaped a ramming attempt by angry
Sicilian...
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