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Dusk to Spawn California bars salmon fishing in state waters |
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16 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 1:29 PM on 16 Apr 2008 California Fish and Game officials voted Tuesday to bar commercial salmon fishing in state waters, in what was, according to one commissioner, "one of the most painful votes I think we've ever taken." Fishing in federal waters off the California coast was banned last week. Next month, state officials are likely to bar recreational salmon fishing in Central Valley rivers as well. Californians ... |
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| Topics: California, fishing, news, politics, state politics (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news All salmon, all the time |
Andrew Sharpless |
12 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, oceans, salmon, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Fin-ally! Congress has a chance to protect sharks from finning |
Andrew Sharpless |
11 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: animal welfare, Congress, fishing, oceans, politics, regulation (all these topics) |
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Braking a Catch Salmon fishing season canceled in California, heavily restricted elsewhere |
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11 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 6:17 AM on 11 Apr 2008 Photo: Josh Larios For the first time ever, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council has voted to cancel the salmon fishing season off the coast of California and much of Oregon due to exceedingly low populations of chinook salmon in the Sacramento River area. The restrictions apply to commercial as well as recreational fishers; only a catch of 9,000 hatchery-raised coho ... |
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| Topics: fishing, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Roll On, Columbia Tribes and Bushies reach Northwest salmon settlement |
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08 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:19 PM on 08 Apr 2008 In exchange for four Native tribes dropping lawsuits, the Bush administration will spend $900 million over the next decade to help out Northwest salmon. The settlement reached Monday ends, for the time being, a decades-long legal battle over the best balance of tribal and commercial fishing rights, protection for salmon, and regional power demands in the Columbia River basin. The new plan doe ... |
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| Topics: fishing, litigation, news (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news Photosynthesis and invertibrate sex |
Andrew Sharpless |
05 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: animal welfare, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics) |
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A Problem of Scale Chilean salmon-farming industry in a sad state |
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27 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:18 PM on 27 Mar 2008 A virus called infectious salmon anemia is sweeping through Chile's fisheries, bringing attention to the condition of the country's third-largest export industry. On expansive salmon farms, fish are bred in crowded underwater pens. Fish poop and food pellets contaminate the water. As many as 1 million nonnative salmon escape each year, gobbling native species and traveling as far as Argentina. The ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, news, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Fish Stories How the Monterey Bay Aquarium makes its safe-seafood list -- plus a seafood recipe you can feel good about |
Roz Cummins |
27 Mar 2008 |
'Tis the Season |
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| Topics: aquaculture, fishing, food, green living, oceans, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics) |
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Plunder the sea New online game illustrates the impacts of overfishing |
Katy Balatero |
27 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, oceans, video games, websites (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news Duplicitous sand dollars and tenacious sea worms |
Andrew Sharpless |
22 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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When will sharks catch a break? Not anytime soon, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals |
Andrew Sharpless |
20 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: animal welfare, fishing, Hong Kong, oceans (all these topics) |
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Flipper Them Off State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon |
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18 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:22 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Oregon and Washington state officials will have the authority to trap and, if necessary, kill up to 85 of the sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday. Sea lions, which enjoy a robust population but are nonetheless protected under the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act, have been visiting ... |
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| Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news Friendly cetaceans and smelly algae |
Andrew Sharpless |
15 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Off the Hook Salmon fishing season in California and Oregon may be canceled |
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12 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:49 PM on 12 Mar 2008 So few salmon are swimming in California and Oregon that salmon fishing season is likely to be canceled completely unless an emergency exemption is granted, according to the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council. The states' salmon season, which traditionally runs from April to mid-November, has never been entirely canceled before. Even with a complete closure, fishery experts estim ... |
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| Topics: California, fishing, insanity, news, Oregon (all these topics) |
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Notable quotable
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David Roberts |
07 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: animal welfare, fishing, Japan, oceans, quotables, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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A sea of stats Even more numbers to illuminate the vast ocean |
Andrew Sharpless |
01 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, climate, water pollution, habitat loss, oceans (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news Tracking whaling ships and whale sharks |
Andrew Sharpless |
01 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: wildlife, oceans, fishing, whaling (all these topics) |
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Threatened to the Gills World fisheries still in danger of imminent collapse, says U.N. |
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25 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:07 AM on 25 Feb 2008 When last we checked in on the world's commercial fish stocks, they were in danger of collapsing within decades. And, sorry to say, they still are, according to a United Nations Environment Program report ominously titled "In Dead Water." Factor in climate change, overfishing, and pollution "and you see you're potentially putting a death nail in the coffin of w ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news Shark superhighways and radioactive fish bones |
Andrew Sharpless |
23 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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Carbon on the half shell A lighthearted look at biosequestration |
Erik Hoffner |
21 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: aquaculture, carbon sequestration, climate, fishing, oceans (all these topics) |
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Cyanide Cynthia's flack attack Mining behemoth responds to Gristmill |
Glenn Hurowitz |
13 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Alaska, fishing, mining, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Factory-farmed fish: another fool's bargain? New studies show salmon farms destroy wild stocks |
Tom Philpott |
12 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: aquaculture, fishing, oceans (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news Hungry humpheads and sustainable fish in U.K. groceries |
Andrew Sharpless |
10 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics) |
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No pirate ship for me A notorious illegal fishing ship meets its end |
Andrew Sharpless |
08 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: fishing, oceans (all these topics) |
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Threatened Level: Salmon Oregon coast coho salmon re-listed as threatened |
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06 Feb 2008 |
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| Posted at 9:13 AM on 06 Feb 2008 Coho salmon off the Oregon coast have been re-listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Yesterday's move was compelled by a court-ordered deadline mandating that the NOAA Fisheries Service reconsider its 2006 decision to delist the coho because it wasn't based on the best available science. The Oregon coastal coho stock has been the subject of contentious debate and litigation ... |
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| Topics: fishing, news, Oregon, United States, wildlife (all these topics) |
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