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This week in ocean news ... Iraqi catches shark, blames America	Andrew Sharpless	03 Nov 2007	Gristmill
... in Iraq, a shark was found 160 miles from the sea in an irrigation canal that joins the Euphrates River. 'I believe America is behind this matter,' said the Iraqi who netted it ... ... the seasonal growth of water hyacinth disrupted local fishing activities along the coast of Lagos in Nigeria. The plant can grow rapidly enough to choke waterways overnight ... ... Turkish academics decided to establish the country's first rehabilitation center for sea tur ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Fish living in trees and underwater pumpkin carving	Andrew Sharpless	27 Oct 2007	Gristmill
... in his weekly radio address, President Bush spoke on conserving fisheries. 'The most important thing is not the size of your catch but the enjoyment of the great outdoors,' he said ... ... conservationists said that talks at a recent international convention devoted to bluefin tuna recovery were derailed by Japan, resulting in no meaningful progress ... ... an MIT researcher designed new equipment to gather scallops from the sea floor with hopes that i ...
Topics: wildlife, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Insomniac zebra fish and stranded sea-turtle babies	Andrew Sharpless	20 Oct 2007	Gristmill
... in defiance of a 1959 treaty that agreed no new claims would be laid on Antarctica, press reports say Britain is poised to claim a million square kilometers of Antarctic seabed ... ... the Canadian government announced it would add six new positions dedicated to fisheries assessment in the Arctic ... ... scientists began mapping the seafloor off the coast of Ulster. One scientist said the results would show that 90 percent of the Irish Republic is land ben ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

An English coast makeover and a cephalopod celebration This week in ocean news	Andrew Sharpless	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Some 1,700 acres of English coast will be transformed from farmland to a saltwater marsh at a cost of Ł12 million (about $24.4 million) ...... researchers tagged and released bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic in an attempt to track the species' perilous decline ...... a Silicon Valley company is developing a way to eliminate excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by consuming it during the production of cement, a process known as 'carbon sequestering' ...... r ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Better late than never for bluefins European Commission springs to action	Andrew Sharpless	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
For bluefin tuna to have any chance of survival, we've got to make sure proper legislation is in place to protect them and, more importantly, that it's enforced adequately and effectively. With that in mind, it's a welcome sight to see the European Commission threatening countries like Italy and France with legal action for failing to adhere to fishing quotas and not accurately reporting catches. The Commission's decision, though welcome, is long overdue ...
Topics: wildlife, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Walruses, whales and ... wave farms?	Andrew Sharpless	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Illegal acts pervaded the seas, waves were promoted as renewable energy, and Brooklyn got a new resident in a busy week for the oceans. This week in ocean news ... ... The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation voted to immediately reduce cod bycatch by 40 percent off Canada's eastern coast at its annual meeting ... ... nine Pacific nations concluded Operation Big Eye, a 10-day, $15 million sting on illegal fishing boats. Patrols boarded 38 vessels ... ... ...
Topics: wildlife, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

The Thin Bluefin Line Bluefin tuna population in Mediterranean declining, sushi blamed		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 6:16 AM on 02 Oct 2007 The population of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea is plummeting and could be seeing the start of a collapse, warn experts from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna and the World Wildlife Fund. High-end sushi restaurants in Japan fuel demand for premium catches of the fish, which can net some $15,000 each for the biggest and best. Demand, as ...
Topics: fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news European fisheries 'poor,' island nation Palau rich in corals	Andrew Sharpless	29 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Stakes in the seas are high, but in at least one case, an interest in ocean health can lead to cooperation between unlikely teammates ... ... the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution held an international conference on the possibility of mitigating global warming by seeding the ocean with iron, a controversial procedure which would theoretically boost phytoplankton populations ... ... meanwhile, the scientist behind the theory that the e ...
Topics: oceans, fishing, wildlife, climate (all these topics)

The sea turtle hurdle New study shows turtle populations on the decline	Andrew Sharpless	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Loggerhead sea turtle nesting subpopulations in the North Atlantic are on the decline, according to a new study released by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The study, a five-year status review for loggerhead sea turtles required by the Endangered Species Act, confirms what Oceana has been telling the federal government all along. If there is to be any real chance for restoring sea turtle populations, the feder ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

It's not hot in here, it's just global warming Icy creature populations to deplete as temperatures rise	Andrew Sharpless	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Reports are all over the headlines recently of creatures, particularly Arctic and Antarctic marine creatures, being threatened by extinction because the Earth is warming too fast for them or their icy environments to be able to sustain themselves. A colony of Antarctic penguins, for one, could be extinct in as little as eight years, according to one researcher who's been documenting their population since the mid-1970s. Upward of two-thirds of the Arctic polar ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

So Much for Slow and Steady Loggerhead turtle populations declining		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:59 AM on 24 Sep 2007 Loggerhead turtle populations rose in the 1990s but are now falling again, according to a recent federal review. Thanks, commercial fishing! source: Associated Press From the Archives We're Just Going Through a Phaseout. Faster phaseout of ozone-damaging chemicals agreed to by 191 nations. The Long, Hot Summit. U.N. climate summit kicks off in New York; Bush preps for ...
Topics: fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Boiling lakes and misguided supermodels This week in ocean news	Andrew Sharpless	14 Sep 2007	Gristmill
the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the polar bear population could plummet to one-third of its current level by mid-century because Arctic ice is receding faster than predicted ... a new 350-foot super-ferry designed to go 40 mph between Hawaiian islands concerned scientists, who thought it would collide with whales and dolphins despite new cetacean-avoiding technology ... new DNA studies sugg ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

The week in ocean news A round-up of top ocean stories	Andrew Sharpless	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
A Manhattan-sized iceberg that had broken off a Canadian island came to a rest in a dead-end Arctic Ocean channel, much to the relief of cargo ships and oil rigs, which may have been threatened by the two-billion-ton berg. A family out sailing in Massachusetts spied a mola mola, a bony sun ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Everyone loves a happy ending One lucky sea turtle released back into the wild	Andrew Sharpless	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Four hooks in the throat and belly, three hooks embedded in the skin, two feet of fishing line in the stomach -- one happy ending for a lucky loggerhead sea turtle. After months of rehabilitation, rescuers in Florida finally released a female sea turtle, estimated between 40 and 50 years of age. She took off quickly, according to witnesses, hopefully never to again to be so hooked and entangled. That's an optimistic point of view. Trouble is all the commercia ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Ranger crew encounters jellyfish swarm Overfishing, pollution contribute to exponential rise	Andrew Sharpless	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Oceana divers documenting the state of ecological communities in Cabrera Marine Park along the Mediterranean Coast encountered swarms of jellyfish, with numbers in the thousands, 30 miles south of the area. On a seamount some 130 meters from the surface, Oceana's unmanned submarine robot revealed especially high concentrations of these jellies that have wreaked havoc along the Mediterranean in years past. Oceana is working to have the area added to the national p ...
Topics: biodiversity, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Gillnetters get the boot Latest victory protects Pacific sea turtles	Andrew Sharpless	20 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Endangered leatherback sea turtles migrating from an Indonesian beach to feed on jellyfish off the Pacific coast have one less obstacle to overcome. NOAA has denied issuance of the special exempted fishing permit required for gillnet boats to operate in an area of coast stretching from central California to central Oregon, during the time critically endangered leatherback sea turtles are feeding there.Commercial fishing operations kill an estimated 10,000 sea tu ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Hooked on toothfish and turtles A new book reveals the truth about Chilean sea bass	Sarah van Schagen	23 May 2006	Gristmill
Ahoy, mateys! Methinks you landlubbers will enjoy this here installment of Something Fishy, as I bring news of a book hitting the shelves this month -- about pirates! That's right, me hearties, it's called Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish, and the 'perfect fish' in question is the Patagonian toothfish (better known to seafoodies as Chilean Sea Bass). As described in press materials, Hooked is an adventure story about toothfish poachers caught in one ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Nursing Australia's sharks A new breeding program aims to revive the gray nurse shark	Sarah van Schagen	12 Apr 2006	Gristmill
Ahoy once again, me faithful readers! 'Tis been too long since our last voyage, and some interesting goings-on have passed me harbor in the meantime. First, I share some grave news for me fellow pirates -- that happens to be good news for me fellow greens: Greenpeace has been a'pirate huntin' off West Africa! I'd suggest they walk the plank for that, had I not seen this bit here: 'Pirate fishing is a global threat to the oceans and those who depend on them.' Well, ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

That'll Do, Babe Kris Williams is saving sea turtles in Georgia	Gail Krueger	01 Dec 2000	Main Dish
Kris Williams is the "Turtle Babe" of Wassaw Island. At 33, the attractive, square-jawed blonde heads the oldest volunteer-based sea turtle conservation project in North America. What a babe. Optimism comes as naturally to Williams as the tide comes to the beach. It has to, because sea turtle conservation in Georgia isn't easy. "Awareness is higher than it's ever been and that gives me ...
Topics: fishing, Georgia, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

The Dream of the Black-and-Blue Turtles Sea turtle activists are pushing for protections in Texas	Dan Oko	25 Aug 2000	Main Dish
They may be swimming against the current, but sea turtle advocates say they want Gov. George W. Bush (R) to show a little of his fabled compassion for the endangered reptiles that frequent the Gulf of Mexico along the Texas coast. The New York Times ad. Image: STRP. As the GOP presidential hopeful prepared to accept his party's nomination earlier this month, the San Francisco- ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, grassroots activism, oceans, Texas, wildlife (all these topics)

Here Today, Gone Tomalley What's killing off lobsters in Long Island Sound?	Christine Woodside	20 Jun 2000	Main Dish
Richard A. French, a specialist in animal disease at the University of Connecticut, often comes to work wearing a lobster tie tack he bought at a shellfish conference. He's had lobsters on the brain lately, particularly the mystery of why hundreds of thousands of lobsters have died within the last year in Long Island Sound. In a sea of troubles. Photo: OAR/NURP. In the western end of the ...
Topics: fishing, New York, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

The Coast Is Clear -- of Salmon Atlantic salmon are even worse off than their Pacific cousins	Wayne Curtis	12 Apr 2000	Main Dish
To catch an Atlantic salmon in the Machias River back in the 1940s -- and we're talking a legitimate salmon here, maybe 30 or 40 pounds -- didn't require a knack with rod and reel, nor even the wily patience of the angler. Mostly what you needed was decent aim with a rifle or pitchfork or jig hook. The mighty Machias. Or for that matter, a good-sized river stone. "I reme ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Not the Only Fish in the Sea Are efforts to protect the dolphin putting other fish in a sea of trouble?	Rick Gaffney	28 Oct 1999	Main Dish
There were predictable cries of protest from some conservationists who focus on charismatic megafauna when revised standards for use of the "dolphin safe" tuna label were announced by the Commerce Department in April. Though the new rules stipulate that no dolphins should be killed or seriously injured, they do let canners label their product "dolphin ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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