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Something Fishy: Tuna catch atlas A visual history of the industry	Sarah van Schagen	09 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Avast, me hearties! Seems the landlubbers 'round here have it in for me column. But I refuse to Arrr. I. P. I've returned, peg-leg and all, with a quick post about the atlas resources on the fisheries pages of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization. These maps illustrate tuna and billfish catches over time and by fishing method. As you can see below, the use of purse seine nets -- a method that results in large amounts of bycatch (including dolphins, shar ...
Topics: oceans, fishing (all these topics)

Frankly, My Dear, We Don't Want These Dams Federal decision may be first step toward dam removal on the Klamath River		01 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Frankly, My Dear, We Don't Want These Dams Federal decision may be first step toward dam removal on the Klamath River Four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border must ease fish passage to earn license renewal, says the Bush administration. The decision may spur the largest dam-removal project in history, as installation of fish ladders and other devices could cost far more than just remov ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

The River Dry David James Duncan rows through a wheat field to save salmon -- and we've got pictures	Sarah Kraybill Burkhalter	25 Jan 2007	Main Dish
Photo: Frederic Ohlinger "The miracle meal after the Sermon on the Mount was both loaves and fishes," says author and storyteller David James Duncan. "Not one or the other. Both." It's a sentiment that helps to explain why Duncan and a variety of compatriots were photographed in 13 colorful dories, rowing and casting lines -- into a ...
Topics: dams, energy, fishing, food and agriculture, Washington (all these topics)

Something Fishy: A Fish Story airs on PBS tonight The film will explore the conflicts between the fishing industry and the environment	Sarah van Schagen	02 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Ahoy mateys, and a happy new year to ye. I celebrated me holidays with some good booty -- givin' and receivin' -- and some pirate-style parrrtying. Here's hopin' ye did the same. And now that we be recovered from our rum-induced stupor, I've got news of an oceans-related documentary airing on PBS tonight. Part of the Independent Lens series, which also brought you Two Square Miles, the film A Fish Story goes behind the scenes to chat with politicians, environment ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, TV (all these topics)

A Different Angle On eco-choices	Umbra Fisk	20 Dec 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, While I usually love your column, I have to take issue with encouraging people to eat sushi. This is the second "green" site I have seen that proposes the solution to overfishing is to eat different fish. Saying "of course you can continue to eat at sushi restaurants without feeling guilty" amounts to pandering to people who are concerned about environmental problems but are not willing to make meaningful ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, fishing, food and agriculture, oceans, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Wake Up, Little Sushi On sustainable sushi	Umbra Fisk	29 Nov 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My wife and I love sushi, but we're increasingly concerned about sustainable harvesting. Although we treat ourselves to sushi only once or twice a month, it adds up, and we can't help but wonder about the impact. There's no sensation in the world like letting a slab of sashimi salmon dissolve in your mouth, but can my wife and I continue to enjoy sushi without feeling guilty? What can people like us -- environmental ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, fishing, food and agriculture, oceans, toxics (all these topics)

Fish story Worldwatch releases a hopeful plan for saving the world's fish.	Tom Philpott	07 Nov 2006	Gristmill
There's no shortage of reasons it would really suck if present trends continued and the world's oceans stopped supporting a robust fish population. For one, it would deal a devastating blow to human nutrition and cuisine. The sea provides us with high-quality protein and many other valuable nutrients. Poof? Gone? (Don't be smug, vegans. Fish emulsion -- ground-up fish -- is a common and valuable input for organic vegetable farming.) As for cuisine, can anyone ...
Topics: fishing, food, oceans (all these topics)

What you eat matters ... big time Go veggie -- a poll	Jason D Scorse	03 Nov 2006	Gristmill
With Science about the collapse of the world's fisheries, I think it's appropriate once again to examine a topic that doesn't get enough attention: our diets. Not only does eating fish exacerbate the collapse of marine ecosystems and lead to the death of millions of other creatures, including turtles, dolphins, and whales, but the energy used to catch deep-sea fish is equivalent to factory-farmed beef.That wasn't a typo. Eating most types of fish is like eating Big Ma ...
Topics: fishing, food, oceans, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Fossil fish catches could be bad news	Sarah van Schagen	23 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Yo-ho-ho, me hearties. 'Tis ye favorite pirate here with a quick news bit to satisfy yer cravin'. Me plundering sked is keepin' me busy these days, and I gotta tell ye, wifi ain't so great out here on the high seas. That said, I've got a tale for ye about the African Coelacanth, an archaic (we're talking tens of millions of years old) species long thought to be extinct until one was caught in South African waters in 1938. I'm pretty sure it was the 'Lord God' of fi ...
Topics: fishing, oceans (all these topics)

Shiver Our Timbers Washington state timber industry gets exemption from species act		07 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Shiver Our Timbers Washington state timber industry gets exemption from species act For the next 50 years, the Washington state timber industry will be shielded from prosecution under the Endangered Species Act for harming salmon. In return, the industry has agreed to help the fish by leaving more trees standing near critical streams, reducing logging on unstable slopes, and controlling sediment runoff. The deal, signed ...
Topics: fishing, logging, news, Washington (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)

Make Salmon Happy, Make Just One Salmon Happy Columbia River salmon finally running, but counts are low		10 May 2006	Daily Grist
Make Salmon Happy, Make Just One Salmon Happy Columbia River salmon finally running, but counts are low Three weeks later than normal, Columbia River salmon are finally running. Well, swimming. Whatever. The fish left the Pacific Ocean at their usual time to enter the Columbia, which runs on the border of Oregon and Washington. Then they mysteriously decided to hang out in the 40 miles between Portland, Ore., and the fish lad ...
Topics: Columbia River, fishing, news (all these topics)

Do You Reely Want to Hurt Me? Low salmon numbers provoke protests, legislation, and a state of emergency		26 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
Do You Reely Want to Hurt Me? Low salmon numbers provoke protests, legislation, and a state of emergency Next week is supposed to kick off salmon season in Oregon and California, but the Bush administration is expected to severely restrict or completely bar commercial salmon fishing due to a critically low salmon count in the Klamath River. About 100 angry fisherfolk protested in San Francisco on ...
Topics: California, fishing, news, Oregon, rivers and watersheds (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: oceans, wildlife, fishing (all these topics)

Klamath Is Hard! Judge orders Bush admin to shift water to Klamath River salmon		28 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Klamath Is Hard! Judge orders Bush admin to shift water to Klamath River salmon Endangered Klamath River coho salmon -- what's left of them anyway -- scored a victory yesterday, as a federal judge ordered the Bureau of Reclamation to increase river flows in drought years and the National Marine Fisheries Service to develop a biological study that would lead ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, rivers and watersheds, US Bureau of Reclamation (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Fish and RIPs Tips on seafood consumption from a seafaring wench	Sarah van Schagen	09 Mar 2006	Gristmill
Ahoy there, fellow poop-deckers! I hope the fair seas have treated ye well since me last arrrr-ticle. This one, dear mateys, will focus on grub -- that's food to you landlubbers -- specifically seafood. There's been much to-do lately on mercury advisories and the safety of sushi, so how's a seadog to know what's safe to eat, what's caught (or farmed) sustainably, and what's not? But before I delve into the murky waters of seafood safety, I've a message for any bilg ...
Topics: aquaculture, fishing, food, health, mercury, oceans (all these topics)

It's Hard Out Here for a Chinook Fishing ban considered for Klamath chinook along West Coast		06 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
It's Hard Out Here for a Chinook Fishing ban considered for Klamath chinook along West Coast With chinook salmon runs in the Klamath River plummeting, federal regulators are considering an unprecedented ocean-fishing ban on chinook along 700 miles of coast, from northern Oregon to just south of Carmel, Calif. A combination of factors on the Klamath River, including warm, low-flowing water and runoff from farming and ti ...
Topics: fishing, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Buried treasure Discover new species in the Caribbean, a new reef off Thailand, and an ocean-centric MoJo issue	Sarah van Schagen	22 Feb 2006	Gristmill
Ahoy, mateys! Welcome aboard the good ship Something Fishy, a biweekly blog column focused on all things, um, fishy, and oceanic, and marine biological, and whatnot. It's sure to shiver your timbers ... if you know what I mean. (Should I have stopped at 'ahoy'? Methinks the eye patch is on a bit tight. Aarrr!) Pirate lingo aside (for now ... there may be mention of a 'poop deck' later on), this first column will focus on the theme of buried treasure -- from new s ...
Topics: biodiversity, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly on the, Uh, Salmon Maine salmon teeter on the edge of extinction		01 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
The Pain in Maine Falls Mainly on the, Uh, Salmon Maine salmon teeter on the edge of extinction Endangered Maine salmon don't get as much press as their sexy Pacific Northwest cousins (what, you don't find salmon sexy?). But they may be closer to extinction. Currently only about 80 adult salmon return from the ocean each year to spawn in the eight Maine rivers where they're endangered. The government has spent five years and at least ...
Topics: fishing, Maine, news (all these topics)

Down on the farm Why the global food system isn't kind to local farmers	Tom Philpott	25 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Recently, I've come across two articles that pungently demonstrate the place of small-scale farmers in a global economy geared toward long-distance trade. The first, a Salon-published excerpt from Charles Fishman's recent book The Wal-Mart Effect, explores what the U.S. love affair with $5/pound salmon means for Chile. (Prepare to click through a few ads to get to the story.) The other, a NY Times piece, depicts high-level hand-wringing in China over rural 'land grabs ...
Topics: aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Here Today, Oregon Tomorrow Feds say local recovery plan is enough to save Oregon's coastal coho		18 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Here Today, Oregon Tomorrow Feds say local recovery plan is enough to save Oregon's coastal coho Oregon coastal coho salmon will not be returned to the federal threatened species list. The National Marine Fisheries Service says there's no need for federal protections, crediting improving fish numbers to the recovery plan developed by a coalition of local, state, and federal players, including the t ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Oregon (all these topics)

Steamroll on Columbia Idaho senator axes funding for agency that studies endangered salmon		30 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Steamroll on Columbia Idaho senator axes funding for agency that studies endangered salmon Well, that's one way to deal with scientific findings you don't like! Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has wiped out funding for the Fish Passage Center, a 12-person, $1.3 million agency widely respected by salmon-conservation experts. The center has documented shrinking fish numbers in the Columbia River system, and last s ...
Topics: Columbia River, fishing, Idaho, news, politics (all these topics)

The Sound and the ... Eh Fisheries Service offers mild plan to preserve Puget Sound orcas		05 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Sound and the ... Eh Fisheries Service offers mild plan to preserve Puget Sound orcas The much-beloved and much-beleaguered orcas of Puget Sound in Washington state are the focus of a tepid new National Marine Fisheries Service conservation plan. It emphasizes cleaning up the sound, preventing oil spills, and trying to boost the salmon population -- pretty much what the government ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, oceans, Washington (all these topics)

Gone killing Japanese fisherman slaughter their competition	Chris Schults	01 Oct 2005	Gristmill
All over the world people are feeling the effects of overfishing. While I would personally advocate not eating fish to begin with, others have come up with alternative solutions, from establishing sustainably managed fisheries to launching campaigns educating the public on what fish to consume. And then there is this: In the Japanese fishing village of Taiji, fishermen are rounding up and slaughtering hundreds and even thousands of dolphins right now.After driving p ...
Topics: fishing, Japan, oceans (all these topics)

That's Some Commitment Bush administration cuts protections for Pacific salmon habitat		15 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
That's Some Commitment Bush administration cuts protections for Pacific salmon habitat In a move it says reaffirms its "commitment to salmon recovery," the Bush administration on Friday slashed critical habitat for Pacific salmon facing extinction. The National Marine Fisheries Service announced that federal protection for salmon habitat in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington would be cut fr ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, news (all these topics)

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