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'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...
Getting Smart About Metadata
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Everyone involved with digital images shares the challenge of tracking and managing their rapidly expanding collections
Pakistan's Blind Dolphins
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Dolphin numbers are declining as fishermen deplete their stock of food, pollution worsens, and a network of barrages restricts their movements. Falling water levels due to declining rain and...
Protecting Farmed Fish Stocks
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Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have gained a key insight into a disease that is devastating the UK's fish farming industry
Australia Proposes To Protect Snapper Stocks
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The Queensland Department of Primary Industries has devised a proposal to protect snapper stocks.
A Call For More Marine Scientists
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NOAA is looking for more fishery stock assesment scientists.
The Art Of Underwater Photography - Back In Stock
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Back in stores after being sold out for months is "A Diver's Guide To The Art Of Underwater Photography" by Andrea and Antonella Ferrari.
Fishermen Blamed for Surge in Deaths of Dolphins and Whales
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Scientists have reported a surge in the number of dead whales, dolphins and porpoises washing up on Cornish shores after lethal encounters with nets and other fishing gear
EU Halts Tuna Fishing
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Mediterranean tuna ranches are feeling the pinch after the European Union moved to prevent the depletion of fish stocks
Penguins Setting Off Sirens Over Health of World's Oceans
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Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world's oceans
Fisheries, Not Whales, To Blame for Shortage of Fish
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The argument that increasing whale populations are behind declining fish stocks is completely without scientific foundation
High Hopes for EU Shark Proposals
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A senior marine scientist has welcomed European Commission proposals for a shark conservation action plan
Bloated Mediterranean Tuna Fleet in Race for The Last Bluefin
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The most comprehensive analysis yet of the Mediterranean bluefin tuna fleet shows it conservatively having twice the fishing capacity of current quotas and more than three and a half times the...
Changes In Ocean in Sargasso Sea- Potential Cause for Decline in Eel Fishery
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American eels are fast disappearing as stocks have declined sharply across the North Atlantic
Technology Used To Track Fish Stocks
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Tasmanian scientists and anglers are collaborating on research into fish stocks in Hobart's River Derwent.
Farmed Salmon Decimating Wild Salmon Worldwide
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The growing global appetite for cheap farmed salmon is imperiling wild fish populations across the planet, scientists warn
New Guide to Reducing Bycatch Goes Online
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As a service to the long-term sustainability of both fish stocks and fishing communities, WWF has established an online resource providing up-to-date information on bycatch (the capture of...
A Fifth Of World's Fish Landings Are Illegal
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About a fifth of the world's fish landings are illegal and the proportion is increasing, adding to the global problem of declining fish stocks, scientists have said
Greece Must Act to Replenish Fish Stocks
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Greece should immediately set up marine reserves to replenish depleted fish stocks due to overfishing or face a collapse of the industry, Greenpeace said on Thursday
Reduce Fish Catch Now for Bigger Net Profits Later
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A new and compelling argument for reducing fish harvests - the profit motive - could persuade world fishers to endure the short-term pain of lower catches for the long-term gain of higher returns...
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....
UN body launches database to tackle illegal caviar trade
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The United Nations watchdog on endangered species said Friday it is launching a database to track the international trade in caviar and tackle its illegal trade.
The Convention on International...
Turning A Blind Eye to Bigeye Tuna
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Bigeye tuna are under threat because authorities are failing to recognize the dire extent of overfishing. If protection measures are not put in place, says WWF and TRAFFIC, the tuna stocks are at...
Russian salmon figures don't add up
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East Asian countries are importing between 50% and 90% more Russian sockeye salmon than Russia is reporting as caught, according to a new report from WWF and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring...
Fishing ban needed to save Mediterranean bluefin tuna
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Members of the international body responsible for the management of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea must agree to a moratorium on fishing for this imperilled species or risk the end of a...
Bluefin tuna overfishing 'still rampant'
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Fishermen caught nearly twice their legal quota of critically endangered bluefin tuna in European waters this year despite stocks being in a state of collapse, according to investigators
New reefs to foster fish stocks
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THREE giant man-made reefs will be built off the NSW coast to boost fish stocks for recreational fishing.
The State Government will today announce it will construct the reefs within three...
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...
Japanese Tuna Scandal Starts To Bite
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THE multibillion-dollar Japanese southern bluefin tuna scandal is worsening under closer Australian Government scrutiny. An official investigation has already found that over 20 years Japanese...
Ocean Life Fading: What Can Be Done?
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Creating uA…aˆ?national parks of the seauA‚A? may be the only effective way to reverse trends that have left 76 percent of world fish stocks fully- or over-exploited and marine biodiversity at...
'Slight Recovery' For Cod Stocks
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The number of young cod in the North Sea has shown a slight rise for the second year in a row, research shows.
But the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (Ices) warned that...
Jellyfish Season To Start Earlier
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Scientists are predicting that a rise in sea temperatures caused by global warming could mean box jellyfish along the Top End coast will start breeding as early as September.
Projections by...
Scientists Call For Drastic Cuts In EU Cod Fishing
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Europe's trawlermen should cut back drastically next year on trawling for cod in the North Sea and aim to take less than half their 2006 catch from the sea, a group of international scientists said...
Is Your Seafood Safe? Ask Your Cell Phone
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All the latest research suggests that most healthy Americans should be eating more fish these days, since it's so packed with nutrients. We need the omega 3's and 6's for heart health, anti-aging...
Downside To Breeding Fish In Captivity Shows Up Early
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Fish hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest produce upward of five billion juvenile salmon, steelhead trout and other fish each year, introducing them to the wild. While the goal of most of these...
Marine Mammals Fewer Than Outdated Statistics Show
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Marine mammals are being managed based on outdated population figures that show more animals than actually exist. Conservationists warn that this failure to provide accurate counts puts shrinking...
EU Commission Considers Legal Option Over Polish Catches Of Threatened Cod
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The European Commission said Thursday it was considering legal action to keep Poland from fishing for more threatened cod, saying the country had already caught its allotted share for the year....
Protecting Cod And Coral Off Eastern Canada
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Decisions made at a meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization will help cod recover and protect vulnerable cold-water corals off the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador....
Sushi Craze Threatens Mediterranean's Giant Tuna
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Fishermen like Diego Crespo have trapped the giant tuna swarming into the warm Mediterranean for over 3,000 years, but he says this year may be one of his last.
Japanese demand for its fatty...
Global Seafood Industry Must Adapt To Demand For uA‹A“greeneru Fish, UN Official Says
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The $400-billion global seafood industry has no choice but to adapt to intensifying demand from retailers and consumers for environmentally friendly uA‹A“greeneru fish that are not taken from...
EU Bans Tuna Fishing As Quotas Breached
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The European Commission on Wednesday banned bluefin tuna fishing in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean for the rest of the year because of over-fishing and dwindling stocks.
The decision...
Malta Unaffected By Ban On Blue Tuna Fishing
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Malta has not been affected by the European Commission's decision on Wednesday to ban bluefin tuna fishing in the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean for the rest of the year because of...
Scientist Delivers Grim Warning Over UK Fish Stocks
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LEADING marine conservation biologist warned at the weekend that up to 90 per cent of the fish stocks around the British Isles could disappear within the next 20 years unless there is a radical...
Trout Lend Sperm To Sterile Salmon
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Japanese researchers put a new spin on surrogate parenting as they engineered one fish species to produce another, in a quest to preserve endangered fish.
US scientists begin the next big step...
Worldus First Sustainable Tuna Fishery Certified In US
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The worldus first certified sustainable tuna fishery was announced today, a move that could help save one of the worldus most valuable fish u" and the fishing industry that relies on it u" from...
California Judge Helps Declining Fish
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A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in...
Bluefin Tuna Sanctuary Needed To Save Western Mediterranean Stock
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WWF is advocating the immediate establishment of a sanctuary for the imperilled bluefin tuna around the Balearic islands in the western Mediterranean.
Along with other international and Spanish...
Bluefin Tuna Ready To Become Dodos Of The Sea
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The western Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery in the Gulf of Maine is in danger of collapse, according to University of New Hampshire (UNH) researchers. Further, the team found that the number and...
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,...
Seafood Safety Net Has Holes
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Who will keep our seafood supply safe? Don't count on the US government, because our seafood safety net has holes in it.
Remember that Chinese seafood scandal? The one where some dangerous...
Turtle Release Programme In Motion
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The ongoing Turtle Release Program, being run by Divetech in conjunction with marine artist Ron Steven uA…aˆ?RogestuA‚A? and Boatswainus Beach/ Cayman Turtle Farm is becoming the latest activity to...
Innovative Tagging Technique May Help Researchers Better Protect Fish Stocks
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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are often hailed as a way to halt serious declines in the abundance of marine species that have been over-fished. But even as nations begin to set aside protected...
WWF Launches Bid To Save Southern Africa Fisheries
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Fisheries in southern Africa face further decline unless a new approach to fishing is adopted, the World Wildlife Fund said on Wednesday at the launch of a report aimed at protecting the region's...
New Sonar Technology May Harm Whales
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Honolulu - The US government wants to extend by five years its rules allowing the Navy to use a new low-frequency sonar, despite objections from environmentalists that the technology may harm...
Will Your Children's Children Eat Enough Fish?
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Just when everyone got used to the product, frozen packaged flyingfish fillets imported from Tobago, so convenient and so easy to prepare, they seemed to have disappeared from supermarket freezer...
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...
How To Save The World's Oceans From Overfishing
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Global fishing stocks are in trouble. After expanding from 18 millions tons in 1950 to around 94 million tons in 2000, annual world fish catch has leveled off and may even be declining....
Iceland slashes cod quotas
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The Icelandic government said on Friday it would cut cod fishing quotas by 30 percent - a move expected to dampen economic growth - to replenish dangerously low fish stocks.
Slashing the quotas...
Don't Forget Importance Of Plant Life
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When questioned about the role of marine preserves, most people will mention the protection of fish. A healthy supply of fish provides stock to seed other areas of reef that are being exploited....
Endangered Fish Stocks Spur Canadian Chefs To Change Menus
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The depletion of fish stocks around the world has top chefs arming themselves with the tools needed to make informed decisions to assure a future with abundant ocean wildlife.
"I have long...
Bluefin Tuna Quotas Doubled
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EU ministers have voted to allow fishing for critically endangered bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic at twice the level which scientists say will lead to the collapse of...
Scientists Urge North Sea Cod Ban
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A total ban on North Sea cod fishing has been called for by a group of marine scientists, ahead of EU talks.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) also recommends major...
Galapagos Tortoises: Untangling The Evolutionary Threads
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Giant tortoises taste good. At least they did to pirates and whalers who had spent months at sea eating the same dry rations day in, day out. Soon after the discovery of the Galapagos Islands in...
Fishing 'destabilises Black Sea'
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Excessive fishing in the Black Sea has triggered major changes in the marine ecosystem, scientists suggest.
The collapse of fish stocks altered the sea's food chain, triggering a "regime...
Sharks At Risk As Traditions Decline
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Weather disasters, economic pressures and other problems have disrupted the lives of Pacific Islanders near Australia to the point that they too are now mismanaging their natural resources. This...
Pacific Whale Decline A Mystery
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Researchers with the conservation group Earthwatch found that whales are arriving in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast malnourished.
The same thing happened just after the 1997/8 El...
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...
Fifty-Fifty, Or The Tuna Gets It!
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With a month to go before the start of the 2007 fishing season for Mediterranean bluefin tuna, WWF is asking the European Union to hold back half its fishing quota or watch the stock collapse....
A Recipe For Ending Illegal Fishing In The Baltic Sea
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Knowing where the cod on your plate comes from could dramatically reduce illegal fishing in the Baltic Sea.
WWF research shows that introducing a system where fish can be traced from "sea...
Changing Ocean Conditions Led To Sea Lion Decline
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A new study out of Alaska points out the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems, and the need for increased research and stronger science based management to address future concerns....
Still Waters - The Global Fish Crisis
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[from this month's National Geographic Magazine] The Mediterranean may lose its wild bluefin tuna. High-tech harvesting and wasteful management have brought world fish stocks to dangerous lows....
Moreton Bay Under Threat
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IT'S A haven for turtles and dugongs, an angler's paradise and a natural tourism drawcard just minutes from one of Australia's major cities.
But scientists are warning Brisbane's Moreton Bay may...
Cool Media Player / Back-up Device
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Wolverine Data annnunced yesterday that it is shipping its ESP 5160 portable media player, offering a mammoth 160 GB hard drive, a 3.6-inch 320 by 240 pixel LCD display, a 7-in-1 media card reader,...
Caviar Figures Smell Fishy
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The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has lifted a one-year ban on exports of caviar from stocks of beluga sturgeon and two species of sturgeon...
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...
Call For $300m To Help The Great Barriier Reef
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CONSERVATION group WWF Australia has called on the Federal Government to invest $300 million over the next five years to revitalise deteriorating coastal wetlands which protect the Great Barrier...
Governments Fail To Stop Tuna Plunder
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Government members of the world's five tuna regional management organizations, meeting this week in Japan, have failed to agree on an action plan to help reverse the decline in tuna stocks and to...
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...
Warmer Seas Leave Fish Gasping
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Warming oceans, one of the major consequences of global climate change, are making another marine species feel like a fish out of water, scientists report.
Biologists have known for years...
U.N. Lifts Ban On Caviar Exports From Caspian
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The United Nations on Tuesday lifted a year-old embargo on exports of most types of caviar from the Caspian Sea, the main source of the delicacy, despite the fact that stocks are continuing to...
Global Warming 'may Impact' Bluefin Tuna
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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...
XRay #14 Available For Download
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Going Down Under: AUSTRALIA: Tiger Sharks - Byron Bay - Bondi Beach - Ningaloo Reef - Tasmania Kent Group. Ecology: Stingrays. Stop the Killings. Diving with DIABETES. Discover SOLOMON Islands. Do...
Sounding The Death Knell For Bluefin Tuna In The Med
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Decisions taken at an international fisheries meeting failed to follow scientifc advice to protect bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, says WWF.
Rather than accepting a strict recovery plan for...
U.N. Fails In Bid To Ban Ocean Trawling
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United Nations negotiators failed to agree on Thursday on a measure banning a fishing practice known as high-seas bottom trawling that environmentalists say chews up the ocean floor and depletes...
UK 'U-turn' On Marine Reserves
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So-called "no-take zones", where fishing is banned, are considered vital for allowing fish stocks to recover from over-exploitation.
But a "no-take" element will be absent...
International Shark Conservation Conference In Beijing
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If current trends continue, the world's shark stocks will be depleted in ten years, experts warned Wednesday at the International Shark Conservation Conference in Beijing. About a third of the 450...
Fishermen, Facing Declining Stocks, Turn To Sharks
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Declining fish stocks mean that in some parts of the world fishermen are increasingly turning their attention to sharks, where a lack of regulation further threatens many species' survival, an...
Inon X-2 Housing For Canon 10D/20D/30D Preview
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Inon America has sent us the brochure of their soon to be released X-2 housing for the Canon 10D, 20D, and 30D.
The housing comes stock with a 45A‚A° viewfinder and optical strobe sync-ports...
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...
Long-term Ocean Data Confirm Fishing Puts Species In 'double Jeopardy'
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For the first time, research has shown that fishing can promote boom and bust swings in supplies of targeted fish stocks.
The results, published in the October 19 issue of the journal Nature,...
38 Million Sharks Killed For Fins Annually, Experts Estimate
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Some chicken stock, a few mushrooms, chicken breast, scallions, a little sherry, oil, spices-shark fin soup is fairly easy to prepare. But to make soup for six, you'll also need about a pound (half...
Japan Admits Exceeding Bluefin Tuna Catch
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The Japanese government had admitted taking too many blufin tuna and would reduce its quota, federal Fisheries Minister Eric Abetz said today.
It was revealed in August that Japanese fishers and...
Aluminium Shortage Might Soon Affect Underwater Housing Prices
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It is an irony with an iron source! While new camera models hit the street and digital technology advances to introduce more affordable DSLR cameras, underwater housing prices might increase over...
Big Fish Are Mostly Gone
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The realisation that stocks of big fish - marlin, sharks, swordfish, and tuna - are declining rapidly is beginning to sink in. The UN Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) considers that...
World's Oceans Reaching Point Of No Return, Says UN
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The UN has warned the world's governments that humankind's exploitation of the sea could be passing the point of no return. A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) found that...
Oceans Science: A Critical Mass Of Minds In Canada
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WE DESCRIBE Nova Scotia as Canada's ocean playground, so we have a unique responsibility to reverse the alarming deterioration of our marine ecosystems and resources.
Progress happens faster...
The International League Of Conservation Photographers
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As anyone who has ever tried to get a living from outdoor photography will testify, stock photography sells in the freest of all free markets. There is nothing to bar you or anyone else at home or...
Radar Altimetry Revolutionizing The Study Of The Ocean
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Imagine a space tool so revolutionary it can determine the impact of climate change, monitor the melting of glaciers, discover invisible waves, predict the strength of hurricanes, conserve fish...
Environmentalists: Oil Companies Hiding Behind Fish
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Marine biologist Milton Love drives a hybrid car, displays a banner of leftist icon Che Guevara on his laboratory wall -- and has backing from big oil.
The reason is his finding that long-maligned...
Pirate Trawlers Face Crackdown To Aid Fish Stocks
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Pirate trawlers will be tracked by a new database as part of a planned crackdown on illegal fish catches worth $9.5 billion a year that are adding to strains on global stocks, an international...
Japanese Said "feeding Whale Meat To Dogs"
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Japan's stock of whale meat from hunting for scientific research is so large that the country has begun selling it as dog food, a leading marine conservation organization said on Friday...
New Sonar Method Offers Way To Assess Health Of Squid Fisheries
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California's $30-million-a-year squid fishery has quadrupled in the past decade, but until now there has been no way to assess the continuing viability of squid stocks. A multi-institutional team...
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...
NEAFC Fail To Protect Deepwater Fish And Corals' Environmental Organisations Claim
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AFTER a week of negotiations, NEAFC the intergovernmental commission responsible for managing deep-water fishing in the North East Atlantic agreed to include long-term conservation of fish stocks...
Spanish Nets Wiping Out Deep-sea Sharks, Biologists Say
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Spanish fishermen are devastating stocks of deep-water sharks in the northeastern Atlantic, using wasteful and unregulated methods that leave more than half of their catch to rot, according to an...
Thriving Coral Reef Thrills Marine Research Group
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Marine scientists sailing the central Pacific to study its remote coral reefs have reached an underwater Eden even more pristine than they had hoped for, according to e-mail dispatches they sent...
Greenpeace Says Canada Must Counter Nafo Mismanagement
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The international agency that manages the fishery on the high seas has done such a miserable job of protecting fish stocks that it needs to introduce a moratorium on the controversial practice of...
Confessions Of A Nikon Traitor
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I really didn't want to do it but I had no choice. I waited like a faithful puppy for Nikon to jump on the bandwagon and kick Canon's rear but it never happened. I just became an old dog while...
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