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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)

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: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (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: animal welfare, fishing, Hong Kong, oceans (all these topics)

Flipper Them Off State officials given OK to kill sea lions to protect salmon		18 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 18 Mar 2008 Oregon and Washington state officials will have the authority to trap and, if necessary, kill up to 85 of the sea lions that gobble up threatened salmon at the Columbia River's Bonneville Dam, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced Tuesday. Sea lions, which enjoy a robust population but are nonetheless protected under the 1972 Marine Mammals Protection Act, have been visiting ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon, Washington, wildlife (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)

Off the Hook Salmon fishing season in California and Oregon may be canceled		12 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:49 PM on 12 Mar 2008 So few salmon are swimming in California and Oregon that salmon fishing season is likely to be canceled completely unless an emergency exemption is granted, according to the federal Pacific Fishery Management Council. The states' salmon season, which traditionally runs from April to mid-November, has never been entirely canceled before. Even with a complete closure, fishery experts estim ...
Topics: California, fishing, insanity, news, Oregon (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: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (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)

Cyanide Cynthia's flack attack Mining behemoth responds to Gristmill	Glenn Hurowitz	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A mine similar to the one proposed for the Bristol Bay area. Photo: Ben Knight. This past Christmas, I named Anglo-American Mining Company CEO 'Cyanide' Cynthia Carroll the 'world's biggest scrooge' for planning to plop one of the world's biggest gold mines right atop the richest salmon fishery in the world in Alaska's Bristol Bay -- and wreaking massive devastation to the landscape, wildlife, and economy of Alaska (you can see pictures of this landsca ...
Topics: Alaska, fishing, mining, toxics, water pollution, wildlife (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)

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