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Cyanide Cynthia, world's biggest Scrooge Mining CEO loves gold, hates fish	Glenn Hurowitz	26 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Having trouble finding a Grinch this Christmas season? Try Cynthia Carroll, CEO of Anglo-American Mining Company. Carroll's company has teamed up with Northern Dynasty (like the television show Dynasty, only eviler) to build the world's biggest dam in Alaska so she can mine piles of gold, which will have the unfortunate impact of destroying the world's largest salmon fishery. Not only will the dam prevent the salmon from reaching their spawning grounds, the cyanide ...
Topics: Alaska, business, dams, fishing, mining, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news New fishing quotas and Japanese whaling ships on notice	Andrew Sharpless	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The European Union set quotas for 2008, with an 18 percent decrease for cod in most trawling areas except the North Sea, where quotas were raised by 11 percent. Scientists had pushed for cuts to less than half of 2006 levels ... ... the Swedish Board of Fisheries found that no cod had spawned in the waters between Sweden and Denmark this year ... ... two New Zealand fishing companies aimed to earn the Marine Stewardship Council's environmental standa ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Australia steps up to oppose Japanese whaling	Jason D Scorse	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This move by the Australian government is great news. Moral: elections matter! Let's hope other countries follow suit and stop this madness masquerading as "scientific research".
Topics: Australia, fishing, Japan, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

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 ...
Topics: climate science, climate, aquaculture, wildlife, fishing, oceans, toxics (all these topics)

Subsidies and the Africa problem Billions of taxpayer dollars are helping destroy African waters	Andrew Sharpless	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
After exhausting commercial seafood stocks off their own shores decades ago, wealthy nations turned their bows toward the pristine populations off the coast of Africa. In the 1990s, the European Union took more than a million pounds of fish out of African waters annually; the former Soviet states took about 2.5 million pounds. The result has been predictable: a steep decline in biomass along the African coast. Meanwhile, African nations took a sliver of th ...
Topics: Mozambique, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

Coral Feckless Wild salmon and coral both in trouble, say studies		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:37 PM on 13 Dec 2007 Infestations of sea lice (ew) in salmon farms off the west coast of Canada are threatening local wild salmon populations -- to the extent that the wild fish could be extinct within four years, says a new study published in Science. While the researchers focused on fish populations off the coast of British Columbia, they believe their findings could be applicable anywhere there's a high density of ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, news, oceans, scientific research (all these topics)

Bigger Fish to Fry? U.S. government wants to boost fish-farming industry		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 11:40 AM on 10 Dec 2007 Eighty percent of American fish dishes are imported, and the federal government is eager to get the U.S. seafood market on equal footing (finning?) by kicking off industrial-scale fish farming in the Gulf of Mexico. Under regulations to be considered next month, fish born in laboratories would be transported to gigantic underwater cages capable of holding up to 100,000 pounds of sea critter ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, fishing, news (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Whales on treadmills and dolphin harassment	Andrew Sharpless	08 Dec 2007	Gristmill
New Zealand installed its first acoustic fish fence, designed to herd salmon smolt in the right direction during migration ... ... Polish fishermen who obeyed a ban on cod will receive up to $11,000 in revenue lost, but those who defied the ban will face fines up to $7,500 ... ... salmon returns for the year in Vancouver were called 'dismal' ... ... for the first time, scientists were able to estimate how much a fin whale can swallow in one lu ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Rough times for the orange roughy Better management is needed before closing fisheries is the only option left	Andrew Sharpless	07 Dec 2007	Gristmill
About thirty years ago, diners around the world developed a taste for the low-fat white meat of a large pelagic fish known as a slimehead. The name was changed to orange roughy, and a delicacy was born. Unfortunately for the orange roughy, its long lifespan (a hundred years or more) and its late arrival to sexual maturity (at 20 years or more) has made it vulnerable to overfishing. As its popularity in fine restaurants has grown, orange roughy populations hav ...
Topics: Australia, fishing, New Zealand, oceans (all these topics)

Don't Go Fish Fish less now to boost profits later, says study		07 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 3:18 PM on 07 Dec 2007 The less fish there are, the more expensive it is to catch them -- so if overfished marine stocks were given time to regenerate, fisherfolk would end up making a lot more money down the line, says a new study in Science. So to solve the problem of overfishing, all we have to do is change humans' tendency toward instant gratification. How hard could it be? sources:� BBC News, Reuters < Previous \| N ...
Topics: business, endangered species, fishing, news (all these topics)

Sea you later Bycatch is the ugliest thing you never see in the fish market	Erik Hoffner	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Unwanted fish tossed back into the ocean. Photo: Brian Skerry. Commercial fishing creates a mind-boggling amount of waste, at least 7.3 million tons (PDF) annually of discarded fish ('bycatch') which are either unwanted, illegal to keep, or mangled in the gear. And this number from 2004 is a conservative estimate, not fully accounting for several major fishing countries. Marine photographer Brian Skerry has some very intense imagery that illustrates this ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Rogue flying fish and the 'big, blue rubbish bin'	Andrew Sharpless	01 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Ireland was poised to ask the European Union to permanently ban deep-sea fishing off the country's Atlantic coast to protect coldwater coral reefs ... ... the E.U. completed negotiations with non-E.U. member state Norway for 2008, allowing Norway and the E.U. to increase their North Sea cod catch by 11 percent in exchange for the E.U. reducing its cod discards, or unwanted bycatch, to 10 percent ... ... a marine scientist called for a worldwide ocean ...
Topics: oceans, fishing, wildlife, whaling (all these topics)

I Don't Think You're Ready for This Jelly Northern Ireland and Japan plagued by jellyfish		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:34 AM on 27 Nov 2007 We're sure you have plenty of fodder for eco-nightmares, but let us add another: killer jellyfish. Last week, a horde of jellies covering an area of 10 square miles (!) attacked Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing some 100,000 fish. The mauve stinger jellyfish were well north of their favored Mediterranean habitat, thanks to warmer-than-normal water. Another type, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, insanity, Ireland, Japan, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

More bluefin blues Commission on bluefin conservation comes up empty again	Erik Hoffner	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Carl Safina, the oceans' most articulate defender and director of the Orion Grassroots Network member group Blue Ocean Institute. His books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, and Voyage of the Turtle. His blog also is a must-read. ----- The story goes like this: It's one of the largest, fastest, most gorgeous fish in the sea. Unfortunately, its extraordinary warm-bloodedness makes its muscle del ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news ... A bottom trawler scores underwater pot, and it's open season for Japanese whalers	Andrew Sharpless	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
... a study found that just 79 percent of known fish species has been formally described, and that the largest gaps in knowledge centered on the oceans' most diverse habitats ... ... California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suspended all fishing in the San Francisco Bay after the area's worst oil spill in two decades. The governor called the 58,000 gallon spill, which occured after a cargo ship collided with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, an 'unbelievab ...
Topics: aquaculture, wildlife, fishing, oceans, whaling (all these topics)

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

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)

Dam Nation Fisheries Service releases yet another Northwest salmon recovery plan		01 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 4:12 PM on 01 Nov 2007 The third draft of a federal plan for protecting endangered salmon and steelhead in the Northwest's Columbia and Snake Rivers does not propose breaching the four hydroelectric dams that block the waterways, frustrating activists who have long lobbied for the dams' removal. The National Marine Fisheries Service says the plan for helping the salmon is significantly improved over the p ...
Topics: dams, endangered species, fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news (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)

Everything: Still going to hell Brundtland update finds problems unsolved	David Roberts	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill
How about a big, gristly, indigestible hunk of bad news? Yeah? OK! Everything that was going to hell 20 years ago is still going to hell (sub rqd): Twenty years after the seminal ... Brundtland Commission report "Our Common Future" warned of persistent global environmental degradation, the most pressing concerns facing the world's climate and ecology show no signs of improvement. ... "On all the fundamental major challenges and tr ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, endangered species, fishing, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Angling for Love in All the Wrong Places Bush touts sport-fishing executive order and migratory-bird conservation plan		22 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:35 AM on 22 Oct 2007 President Bush this weekend speechified and photo-op'ed for the environment, specifically courting the hunting and angling crowd through a fishing trip and wildlife refuge visit touting an executive order for sport fishing and conservation measures for migratory birds. The president's migratory-bird plan involves asking Congress to increase tax ...
Topics: fishing, George Bush, news, wildlife (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 �12 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)

A proposal in the making New developments in WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations	Andrew Sharpless	10 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Some new ideas by Brazil and Argentina during the Doha round negotiations at the World Trade Organization have left me feeling rather optimistic about the ability of the WTO to actually help address one of the world's biggest environmental problems: global overfishing. Their proposal is a real attempt by developing countries in the ongoing negotiations about fisheries subsidies to establish some rules to prevent countries from subsidizing their fishing sector w ...
Topics: fishing, international politics, oceans, politics (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: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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