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A bad deal for eels
Though eel populations have declined 99 percent since the 1970s, according to a spokesman for the European Union, an EU eel conservation plan three years in the making was nixed by the French, according to a story by Charles Clover.
Mr. Clover is the environmental editor of the United Kingdom's Telegraph newspaper, and author of one of Oceana's favorite books The End of the Line.
Andrew Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana, the world’s largest international nonprofit dedicated to ocean conservation. Visit www.oceana.org.
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Ron Steenblik Posted 4:27 pm
25 Apr 2007
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caniscandida Posted 5:05 pm
25 Apr 2007
The story of the declining eels was totally unknown to me, and is very sad. It is curious, is it not, that as with other conservation disaster stories, there is an East Asian connexion.
On EU politics: One would indeed have expected the German presidency to be effective in working for environmental reforms of all kinds. Puzzling, their falling down on this. And as for the Portuguese, as much as I love them and their country, we can hardly look to them for radical reforms of fisheries.
Chickens are our cousins!
So are other sensitive animals!
Enough is enough!
No more factory farms!
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amazingdrx Posted 12:01 am
26 Apr 2007
Thus cutting off their own livelihood. And politicians go with the flow.
I'm with Canis on fishing. It has become pure evil. The "free" market has done this.
Here the "free" market in fishing maps and fishing sonar devices is doing the aquatic ecosystem in. Or what was left of it after nitrogen runnoff and overdevelopment next to lakes and rivers.
Information killing the fish. It used to take natural education to catch fish, now all it takes is a trip to the fish map and sonar store.
In the Big Lake the fish are falling victim to invasive species brought in on international ships that dump their heavily polluted ballast water in the lake with no regulation or consequences. And invasive species making their way up the canal from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River.
http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog
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Biodiversivist Posted 1:25 am
26 Apr 2007
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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