Grist | Topics | 103 Results

RESULTS		Results 1 – 25 of 103
Page:1 2 3 4 5
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Club Medusae Jellyfish are everywhere, and that's not a good thing		18 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 11:33 AM on 18 Jun 2008 Photo: Neil Harmon The natural cycle of Mediterranean jellyfish populations is to swell every 12 years, plateau for four to six years, then subside. But massive groups of gelatinous jellies have been showing up for the past eight years, and they show no sign of flagging. In fact, jellies are proliferating worldwide, and that makes scientists nervous. "Jellyfish are an excellent bellwether fo ...
Topics: biodiversity, fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

What Would You Do If We Sang 'Out of Tuna'? E.U. ending bluefin tuna season early amid overfishing concerns		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:25 AM on 13 Jun 2008 The European Union is ending its bluefin tuna fishing season early this year due to concerns that fishers are already nearing their quotas for the popular, lucrative fish. Bluefin tuna are prized for their succulence in sushi, and demand remains strong. Market prices for bluefin in Japan have nearly tripled since last year. However, next week, commercial b ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Our Jaws Are Dropping Some shark populations in Mediterranean have collapsed, study finds		12 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 5:39 AM on 12 Jun 2008 Populations of five shark species in the Mediterranean Sea have declined by an average of 97 percent in the last 200 years, principally due to fishing, according to a new study to be published in the journal Conservation Biology. Researchers combed historical records and collected other data to piece together the long-term population trend of the blue shark, thresher shark, ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news All salmon, all the time	Andrew Sharpless	12 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Fishery managers voted to cancel the chinook salmon fishing season off the coast of California and most of Oregon in light of the fish population's rapid collapse. The commercial fishery is worth an estimated $30 million ... ... many fishermen considered supporting the ban on West Coast salmon fishing in light of this year's record low catch. 'There's likely no fish, so what are you going to be fishing for?' said one. ... while some other fishermen went ah ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, salmon, wildlife (all these topics)

Fin-ally! Congress has a chance to protect sharks from finning	Andrew Sharpless	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the U.S. Court of Appeals' decision to throw out penalties against a fishing vessel carrying 64,695 pounds of shark fins in U.S. waters. Shipping a cargo full of shark fins without sharks is illegal in the United States, but the King Diamond II sailed through a loophole that allowed it to carry fins it had gathered from other ships. Something good has come out of this: The decision has galvanized pressure to end the brutal practice of ...
Topics: animal welfare, Congress, fishing, oceans, politics, regulation (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Photosynthesis and invertibrate sex	Andrew Sharpless	05 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Two new studies may upend previously accepted understanding of photosynthesis. A widespread type of cyanobacteria may not use as much carbon dioxide in photosynthesis as presumed, meaning the oceans are capable of less carbon dioxide absorption than scientists had thought ... ... in other cyanobacteria news, scientists discovered that viruses may play a key role in prompting the phytoplankton to consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen ... ... the Natio ...
Topics: animal welfare, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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
When it comes to safe seafood, the list-makers don't horse around. Photo: SqueakyMarmot Back in the late 1990s, I happened to attend an exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California called "Fishing for Solutions." The experience profoundly changed my attitude toward seafood and the supposedly limitless abundance of the sea. The exhib ...
Topics: aquaculture, fishing, food, green living, oceans, recipes, Tis the Season (all these topics)

Plunder the sea New online game illustrates the impacts of overfishing	Katy Balatero	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Following in the footsteps of other web-based enviro games such as Whale's Revenge, Planet Green, and, uh, Catstration (okay, maybe that one is a stretch) comes Ocean Survivor. The game has no relation to a certain CBS reality show; players swim through the sea as a bluefin tuna and avoid obstacles like death-by-bottom-trawler:
Topics: fishing, oceans, video games, websites (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Duplicitous sand dollars and tenacious sea worms	Andrew Sharpless	22 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A federal appeals court ruled that a Hong Kong company should not have been forced to give up the proceeds from 32 tons of shark fins seized by the U.S. Coast Guard in 2002 from the vessel King Diamond II. The 64,695 pounds of shark fins were valued at $618,956 ... ... a three-year study found a thriving reef fish community around three freighters sunk off the coast of Florida ... ... a graduate student discovered that sand dollar larvae can clone themselves ...
Topics: whaling, oceans, wildlife, fishing (all these topics)

When will sharks catch a break? Not anytime soon, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals	Andrew Sharpless	20 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The brutal practice of shark finning got a boost this week as the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a Hong Kong company should not have lost the proceeds from 64,695 pounds of shark fins seized by the Coast Guard in 2002. Let me repeat that figure: 64,695 pounds of shark fins alone were on that boat. That's the weight of more than eleven Cadillac Escalades. Or eight female African elephants. Or 470 Oxford dictionaries. Without knowing what species of sharks wer ...
Topics: Hong Kong, animal welfare, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Friendly cetaceans and smelly algae	Andrew Sharpless	15 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A federal advisory panel weighed a ban on salmon fishing in California after a dramatic decline in the fishery. 'The situation now is unprecedented and off the charts,' said the executive director of the Pacific Fishery Management Council ... ... a University of Tasmania scientist discovered two new types of toxic algae in the Southern Ocean, which he believes must be calculated into fishing quotas to prevent further overfishing ... ... ocean acidification c ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'Is it all right to hurt humans in order to protect whales? I think whales are cute and important creatures, but even so, hurting humans is unforgivable.' -- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, criticizing anti-whaling activists
Topics: animal welfare, fishing, Japan, oceans, quotables, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

A sea of stats Even more numbers to illuminate the vast ocean	Andrew Sharpless	01 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Perhaps because it was released the same week as Ben Halpern and colleagues' excellent human impacts map, the new U.N. report 'In Dead Water' has been met with little fanfare. It's too bad, because the report is a natural complement to the scientists' graphic illustration of the intersection between humans and the seas. 'In Dead Water' takes a big-picture look at the five primary threats facing the oceans: pollution, climate change, overfishing, invasive specie ...
Topics: climate, fishing, habitat loss, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Tracking whaling ships and whale sharks	Andrew Sharpless	01 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Anti-whaling activists planted tracking devices on Japanese whaling ships as part of a campaign to disrupt the annual hunt, and the Australian customs ship that had been monitoring the hunt returned to port with photographs and video to use for future legal action ... ... a study showed that commercial fishing forced fish to evolve into meeker, less active creatures that carry fewer eggs. Bolder and more adventuresome fish were more likely to be caught by gil ...
Topics: wildlife, oceans, fishing, whaling (all these topics)

Threatened to the Gills World fisheries still in danger of imminent collapse, says U.N.		25 Feb 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news, oceans, water pollution (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Shark superhighways and radioactive fish bones	Andrew Sharpless	23 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Scientists studying the sea floor near Antarctica discovered new species of fish, plankton and jellyfish. 'We had some of the world's experts on Antarctic fish and they were completely, completely flabbergasted,' said the leader of the expedition ... ... a researcher studying a dead zone off the northwest coast of the U.S. saw nothing on the ocean floor. 'It appeared that everything that couldn't swim or scuttle away had died,' she said. The dead zone is tho ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Carbon on the half shell A lighthearted look at biosequestration	Erik Hoffner	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A semi-recent issue of High Country News carried a feature on the deep-rock carbon sequestration potential in the northwestern U.S.: it's maybe possible to inject CO2 captured from power plants into the basalt that underlies the region, producing inert calcium carbonate. If so, there's apparently enough basalt to capture centuries of the region's carbon emissions. It's safe to say the research has its doubters. And carbon sequestration in general deserves the hairy ...
Topics: aquaculture, carbon sequestration, climate, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

Factory-farmed fish: another fool's bargain? New studies show salmon farms destroy wild stocks	Tom Philpott	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Responding to collapsing wild-fish stocks worldwide, the World Bank has hotly promoted "aquaculture" -- essentially, large-scale, industrial fish farms. Photo: Simon Bisson The Bank has directed serious resources at promoting fish farming. Such projects make up a significant chunk of its "portfolio of over US$1.2 billion in fisheries, aquaculture, coastal and aquatic environmental management and related projects serving coastal and fishing ...
Topics: aquaculture, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Hungry humpheads and sustainable fish in U.K. groceries	Andrew Sharpless	10 Feb 2008	Gristmill
28 cases of ciguatera fish poisoning have been documented since November. Fish such as grouper, snapper, and amberjack eat toxic algae, and people who eat the contaminated fish can suffer from nausea and vomiting. In serious cases, neurological problems can last for months or years ... ... a federal judge rejected President Bush's exemption of the U.S. Navy to rules regulating sonar ... ... scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggested ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

No pirate ship for me A notorious illegal fishing ship meets its end	Andrew Sharpless	08 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Here's one for the dustbin of history: This week, Australian authorities confirmed that one of the world's most infamous pirate fishing vessels was scrapped in a shipyard in India in December. The Viarsa 1 was first spied illegally catching Patagonian toothfish (better known in restaurants as Chilean sea bass) in Australian waters in 2003. The resulting pursuit (scroll down for daily updates) by patrol vessels lasted 21 days and crossed 3900 nautical miles, ...
Topics: fishing, oceans (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Bar codes for salmon and shark-free moisturizer	Andrew Sharpless	02 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Scientists found that up to 6,000 metric tons of sunscreen washes off swimmers annually, and that the sunscreen contains chemicals that lead to bleaching corals. They estimated that up to 10 percent of corals were threatened by sunscreen-related bleaching ... ... the Central Valley, Calif., chinook salmon run, which had historically been one of the West Coast's strongest, fell to record lows this year, prompting concerns about collapse ... ... researchers in ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, salmon, wildlife (all these topics)

Fish tales NYT satire gives candidates' alleged responses to the fish 'n' mercury issue	Sarah K. Burkhalter	27 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The New York Times has a pretty funny satirical article up about candidates' alleged responses to reports of high mercury content in New Yawk tuna sushi. Obama: 'Unlike other candidates, I have been saying since 2002 that we were headed down a disastrous road with our sushi policy. But what we need now is a president who will not use this crisis just to scare up votes. We need a president who can get past the tired, old partisan divisions that pit one kind of ...
Topics: elections, fishing, funnies, health, mercury, oceans, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Scared-straight birds and kite-powered cargo ships	Andrew Sharpless	26 Jan 2008	Gristmill
New protections that required longline tuna fishing fleets to use bird-scaring lines, or tori lines, went into effect. In addition, international measures asked longliners to fish at night, when few birds are active, and to sink baited hooks out of reach ... ... an open fish farm that cultivates kahala, also known as Hawaiian yellowtail or amberjack, planned to double its capacity ... ... a 14-man British and Irish rowing crew crossed the Atlantic in 33 ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Sonar gets presidential pardon, seas more violent	Andrew Sharpless	19 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Citing national security, President Bush exempted the U.S. Navy from a judge's order to cease sonar use in areas frequented by marine mammals ... ... the National Marine Fisheries Service said that the Atlantic white marlin did not meet requirements to be included on the Endangered Species List ... ... a report by the U.K. Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership found that seas around the U.K. were becoming more violent, thanks to rising water levels a ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

More on the fishing subsidies problem There's a large human cost to subsidizing European fishing fleets in West Africa	Andrew Sharpless	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Today's front page New York Times story -- 'Europe Takes Africa's Fish, and Boatloads of Migrants Follow' -- chronicles the human cost of overfishing. Fueled by billions in government subsidies, European fleets empty out West African waters, leaving nothing for subsistence fishermen. I wrote about this in an earlier post, but it's an important enough issue to warrant reiteration. Wasteful subsidies promote mismanagement on both the European and African sid ...
Topics: Africa, fishing, international politics, oceans, politics (all these topics)

Page:1 2 3 4 5		Results 1 – 25 of 103

Stories About: fishing AND oceans