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 Stories About: fishing AND oceans AND toxics AND wildlife
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This week in ocean news Manatee deaths down, lonely penguin count up by one |
Andrew Sharpless |
12 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| ... a Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner paid a record $55,700 for a bluefin tuna at a Tokyo market, a rate of $92 per pound ... ... a judge ordered the U.S. Navy to cease use of sonar within 12 nautical miles of the California coastline and whenever a marine mammal was sighted within 2,200 yards ... ... fish from a Canadian salmon farm tested positive for malachite green, a carcinogenic substance. 'We have no explanation as to what has happened,' said ... |
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| Topics: wildlife, fishing, oceans, toxics (all these topics) |
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This week in ocean news Killer farmed salmon and non-deadly sharks |
Andrew Sharpless |
16 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
| More than 10,000 people worked to clean up the worst oil spill in South Korean history after a crane punched a hole in an oil tanker, releasing 2.7 million gallons of crude. A 63-year-old shellfish farmer wept as she showed dead tar-coated oysters to a reporter ... ... a study published in Science suggested that leaving more fish in the sea leads to higher profits than the traditional target known as maximum sustainable yield. 'We like to say it's a win-win ... |
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| Topics: climate science, climate, aquaculture, wildlife, fishing, oceans, toxics (all these topics) |
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