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I Dream of Oxygenie Number of ocean dead zones increasing dramatically, study says		14 Aug 2008	News
Posted at 4:48 PM on 14 Aug 2008 As if fish didn't have enough to worry about, now those near coastal areas are threatened by an unprecedented number of dead zones, says a study being published Friday in the journal Science. The number of dead zones -- oxygen-deprived areas that can no longer support marine life -- has doubled every decade since the 1960s, and the zones have been getting bigger and badder. Resear ...
Topics: fishing, news, scientific research (all these topics)

Checkout Line: School of fish Amid collapsing fisheries and factory-farmed salmon, how to choose sustainable seafood	Lou Bendrick	14 Aug 2008	Gristmill
In Checkout Line, Lou Bendrick cooks up answers to reader questions about how to green their food choices and other diet-related quandaries. Lettuce know what food worries keep you up at night. Hello Grist, The food worry that keeps me up at night is how best to buy fish. Should I buy 'wild caught,' with the world's fishing fleets using giant nets that scoop up all sorts of sea wildlife in one fell swoop, drowning the fish they wanted to collect along with many va ...
Topics: advice, aquaculture, Checkout Line, fishing, food (all these topics)

The Zone Die-It Gulf dead zone likely to be more gigantic than ever		15 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:40 AM on 15 Jul 2008 The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico may be vaster than ever this year, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists predicted Tuesday. Thanks in large part to recent Midwest flooding, the oxygen-starved zone -- caused when fertilizer runoff from upstream ag spurs growth of algae that suck oxygen as they decompose -- could measure 8,800 square miles, or about the size of New Jersey. ...
Topics: agriculture, fishing, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news (all these topics)

Salmon lesson Atlantic Salmon restoration efforts face grim realities	Erik Hoffner	09 Jul 2008	Gristmill
Stocks of wild salmon in the North Pacific are in trouble. That's news. What isn't news is that the spring has passed us by in Massachusetts again without returning more than a handful of wild Atlantic Salmon. The river closest to me, the Connecticut, saw just 132 salmon return, nearly all of which were captured at either of two dams and whisked away by biologists working for the Connecticut River Atlantic Salmon Restoration program. The fish are bred at hatcheries so n ...
Topics: agriculture, fishing, Massachusetts, salmon, wildlife (all these topics)

Where the Farmed Things Are 30,000 farmed salmon escape off B.C. coast, endangering wild stocks		03 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:26 AM on 03 Jul 2008 Some 30,000 farmed Atlantic salmon have escaped from their pen off the coast of British Columbia into the Pacific Ocean. Farmed salmon can harm wild salmon stocks -- which are already declining on the west coast -- by competing with them for food as well as spreading disease. In this case, the escaped salmon are also a different species which is not native to the area ...
Topics: agriculture, British Columbia, fishing, news, wildlife (all these topics)

Fish and pigs and chickens, oh my! Farm animals consume 17 percent of wild-caught fish	Erik Hoffner	27 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Here's a guest post from Jennifer Jacquet of the Sea Around Us Project and the UBC Fisheries Centre in Vancouver, B.C. ----- It is one thing to grind up wild fish to feed to farmed fish, but it is quite another to grind up these perfectly edible fish to feed factory-farmed pigs and poultry. After all, when is the last time you saw a chicken catch a fish? In the not-so-distant past, pigs and chickens ate grass, some grains, and food scraps. Today, in the throes of a ...
Topics: agriculture, fishing, food (all these topics)

One expensive cocktail The toll of the shrimping industry on Southeast Asia	Erik Hoffner	20 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Southeast Asia would have fared better during the tsunami and the recent cyclone if the majority of the region's coastal mangrove forests were intact. Everyone accepts that. But many of the mangroves have been cut for firewood, largely to make way for shrimp farming. The cost of the mangrove-loss to coastal fisheries is great, since much of the food chain spends its early years amongst the trees' roots. But the human cost, besides those lost in the flood waters, is al ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, food, severe weather (all these topics)

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)

Boon for bluefins The European Union closes fishing season early	Andrew Sharpless	17 Jun 2008	Gristmill
It's been said over and over again: Eastern bluefin tuna cannot handle the pressure they face from overfishing. These sleek and powerful fish are unlucky enough to be among the world's most coveted seafood species, and for years scientists have called for a moratorium as a last-ditch effort to save these genetically pure, irreplaceable creatures. While strict quotas have been in place for years, poor quota enforcement and illegal fishing have driven the bluefin ...
Topics: agriculture, endangered species, European Union, fishing, international politics (all these topics)

Ich Infect Dich Icky disease afflicting Alaskan salmon		16 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:54 PM on 16 Jun 2008 Alaska's prized wild salmon are suffering from a disease that scientists suspect of being boosted by -- you guessed it -- global warming. The emergence of Ichthyophonus as a threat to king salmon has coincided with a steady warming of Yukon River water over the past few decades, which scientists say has welcomed cold-averse parasites northward. "Climate change isn't going to increase infectious diseases ...
Topics: Alaska, climate, climate change impacts, fishing, food, news (all these topics)

Don't Count On It Budget office wants to reduce disaster funds for West Coast fisherfolk		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 10:14 AM on 13 Jun 2008 The federal government, having failed to support salmon to the point that California's fishing season was shut down altogether, may now yank support from fisherfolk. The Office of Management and Budget is requesting that the $170 million put aside as disaster funding for the West Coast salmon industry be reduced to $100 million to offset the increased cost of the 2010 census ...
Topics: California, fishing, news, Oregon, politics (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)

Gulf dead zone: Not getting smaller As fertilizer flows from the Midwest, a vast algae bloom thrives below the Mississippi	Tom Philpott	12 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Every year since the early 1980s, a monstrous algae bloom has risen up in the Gulf of Mexico, fed by fertilizer runoff from Midwest farms. The nasty growth sucks oxygen from the ocean beneath it -- snuffing out sea life even as climate change and other human-induced factors threaten the globe's fish stocks. Ironically, as fish go belly up in the Gulf, the bulk of the corn and soy grown on Midwest farms ends up in feedlots to fatten the livestock that feed America's rav ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, ethanol, fishing, Mississippi (all these topics)

On the Hook NOAA would require saltwater fishers to register		12 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 3:17 PM on 12 Jun 2008 To keep better tabs on which fish are being yanked from federal waters, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has proposed requiring recreational anglers to join a national registry. For the past three decades, the agency has gleaned (insufficient) information on anglers and the fish they catch by asking questions at public docks and doing an annual phone survey of coastal communities. Th ...
Topics: fishing, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news (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)

Scaling Back E.U. will cut fishing quotas		30 May 2008	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 30 May 2008 The European Commission will make deep cuts in fishing quotas in 2009, it announced Friday. Eighty-eight percent of E.U. fish stocks are overexploited, the commission says, as compared to 80 percent a year ago. Total allowable catches for some species will be sliced by more than 25 percent. Scientists have advised that fishing for some species be halted altogether, but the commission is concerned about putting fisherfolk ...
Topics: endangered species, European Union, fishing, news (all these topics)

Droppings Dropping Peru's guano supply threatened by overfishing		30 May 2008	News
Posted at 12:35 PM on 30 May 2008 Peru is in deep shit. No, seriously: thanks to an exceptionally dry climate, islands off the Peruvian coast are awash in preserved bird guano, which the country has long exported as non-chemical fertilizer. But while 60 million seabirds were pooping on Peru in the 19th century, the birds now number 4 million; with synthetic-fertilizer costs and interest in organic food rising, the Peruvian governme ...
Topics: agriculture, fishing, news, Peru, wildlife (all these topics)

Dusk to Spawn California bars salmon fishing in state waters		16 Apr 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: California, fishing, news, politics, state politics (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)

Braking a Catch Salmon fishing season canceled in California, heavily restricted elsewhere		11 Apr 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: fishing, news, politics, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Roll On, Columbia Tribes and Bushies reach Northwest salmon settlement		08 Apr 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: fishing, litigation, news (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)

A Problem of Scale Chilean salmon-farming industry in a sad state		27 Mar 2008	News
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 ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, news, water pollution (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)

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