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 Stories About: fishing AND oceans AND water pollution AND wildlife
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This week in ocean news
Six tons of fish soup in Russia, 500 tons of pee in the Pacific |
Andrew Sharpless |
10 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Investigators found that fisherman caught twice their legal quota of bluefin tuna in European waters this year, despite an early closure to the season due to the stocks' precipitous decline ... ... a trout farm in Nova Scotia was torn apart by Tropical Storm Noel, freeing an estimated 500,000 fish and causing $1 million in damages ... ... endangered humpback and fin whales swam hundreds of miles north of their usual habitats in search of colder waters. 'All si ... |
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| Topics: fishing, oceans, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Illegal sea slugs and undersea webcams
This week in ocean news |
Andrew Sharpless |
21 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| the European Union closed the bluefin tuna fishing season in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, calling the stocks 'exhausted' ... a developer proposed dredging up 2.6 million cubic yards of sand from the ocean floor in order to build an artificial beach in Nantucket. The developer will replace the 105 acres of seabed habitat with 28,000 concrete railroad ties over 60 acres ... A New York coastal manager told the state government that its 3,200 miles o ... |
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| Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics) |
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