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Marlin Banned-O Fisherfolk angle to keep marlin off of menus		08 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Marlin Banned-O Fisherfolk angle to keep marlin off of menus Hoping to smack down commercial fishing operations that are decimating Pacific marlin populations, sports anglers have launched a "No Marlin on the Menu!" campaign to discourage diners from ordering the popular game fish. To preserve marlin populations, many sportsfolk keep just one fish per day, per boat, but commercial fisherfolk have not been so scrupulous. ...
Topics: marine life, Mexico, news (all these topics)

It's All Ova U.N. lifts year-old ban on Caspian Sea beluga caviar exports		06 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
It's All Ova U.N. lifts year-old ban on Caspian Sea beluga caviar exports The world's got a fever, and the only prescription is more caviar. In a two-part move, the U.N. has lifted a year-old ban on the delicacy, allowing Caspian Sea countries to profit despite concern about declining sturgeon populations. Yesterday, the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species announced an agreement on the waaay overfished beluga that ...
Topics: marine life, news (all these topics)

Better Not, Pout North Sea fish population declines as water warms, says new study		08 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Better Not, Pout North Sea fish population declines as water warms, says new study For the first time, those meddling scientists have found a direct link between warming seas and dying fish. A heated habitat leads to rapid population decline for the eelpout, a shallow bottom-dweller in the North Sea, according to a decade-long German study recently published in Science. Warm water contains less oxygen, a gas that is helpful for ...
Topics: climate, marine life, news (all these topics)

The Great White Hopeless Chinese white dolphin is likely extinct		18 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
The Great White Hopeless Chinese white dolphin is likely extinct The baiji, a white dolphin found only in China's Yangtze River, appears to have gone extinct. Lipotes vexillifer has been swimming China's longest river for some 20 million years, but in the end it was no match for China's surging economy. In the last few decades, the Yangtze's shallows have been dredged for shipping, many of its fish have been caught or driven away, ...
Topics: China, marine life, news (all these topics)

By Hook and By Crook Congress passes drilling, fisheries bills in final days of session		11 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
By Hook and By Crook Congress passes drilling, fisheries bills in final days of session Gasping and flopping like a landed fish, the Republican-led Congress passed an offshore-drilling measure during its final days. The legislation, passed by the House and Senate as part of a larger tax bill, will open 8.3 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural-gas exploration, with nearly 40 perce ...
Topics: marine life, mining and drilling, news, oceans, politics (all these topics)

Piscean Match Fishing industry, USDA square off over definition of organic fish		28 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Piscean Match Fishing industry, USDA square off over definition of organic fish What makes a fish organic? That query has the U.S. Agriculture Department swimming in circles as it fleshes out a new organic rule. Is wild-caught fish the purest, or is closely monitored farm-raised fish the better option? If the latter, does it matter if the fish eats organic plant-based feed or -- cue creepy music -- other fish? ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, marine life, news (all these topics)

Nothing New Under the Sea After days of negotiations, U.N. fails to pass high-seas bottom-trawling ban		27 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Nothing New Under the Sea After days of negotiations, U.N. fails to pass high-seas bottom-trawling ban In a roughy outcome for conservationists, the U.N. failed to adopt a high-seas bottom-trawling ban supported by countries including the U.S. and Australia. The controversial fishing method, currently used by 11 countries including ban-busters Iceland and Russia, involves dragging vast nets and coral-crunching ro ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans, United Nations (all these topics)

Demand in the Roughy Deep-sea trawling puts ecosystems in deep trouble, says U.N. report		17 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Demand in the Roughy Deep-sea trawling puts ecosystems in deep trouble, says U.N. report Deep-sea trawling is bad. How bad? Uh, pretty bad. Turns out raking gigantic fishing nets across the ocean floor shatters millennia-old coral, raises smothering clouds of sediment, and destroys underwater mountains. "It's the equivalent of clearing old-growth forest to collect squirrels," says researcher Alex Rogers, who helped prep ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

Teach a Man to Fish, and ... Oh, Never Mind Populations of edible marine species may collapse entirely by mid-century, says study		03 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
Teach a Man to Fish, and ... Oh, Never Mind Populations of edible marine species may collapse entirely by mid-century, says study Thank god it's Friday, but thank god even more it's not 2048, when all edible ocean life may be sunk. According to a study in Science, 29 percent of commercially edible fish and shellfish populations have collapsed already, thanks to overfishing, development, pollution, and global warming. "Our ch ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

You Can Call Them Algae Marine 'dead zones' on the rise around the world		20 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
You Can Call Them Algae Marine "dead zones" on the rise around the world There are now at least 200 oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the world's seas and oceans, a rise of more than a third over the past two years, the United Nations Environment Program announced yesterday. The algae blooms that suck up oxygen and cause dead zones -- killing off or driving out fish, oysters, sea gra ...
Topics: marine life, news, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish		18 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Filet of the Land New studies give conflicting advice about the benefits and risks of eating fish Two studies released yesterday are likely to confuse you even further about the benefits and risks of eating fish. A report from the Harvard School of Public Health claims that fish consumption can reduce the risk of coronary death by 36 percent, and total mortality by 17 percent -- benefits that far o ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

A Beautiful Find Scientists discover 52 new marine species near Indonesia		18 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
A Beautiful Find Scientists discover 52 new marine species near Indonesia Eight new species of shrimp, 20 new species of coral, and 24 new species of fish, including two types of sharks, have been discovered off the coast of Indonesia. And these aren't your grandmother's marine species: Male wrasse fish get sexy for their harems by flashing bright yellow, blue, and purple; bottom-dwelling epaulette sharks mostly get around by ...
Topics: Indonesia, marine life, news (all these topics)

A Fish Called Wanda Male fish with female characteristics found in Potomac tributaries		06 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
A Fish Called Wanda Male fish with female characteristics found in Potomac tributaries Male smallmouth and largemouth bass in the Potomac River have been found to be developing eggs, leading federal scientists to suspect that, well, it may be something in the water. Female characteristics have been found in more than 80 percent of the male smallmouth bass studied in Potomac tributaries in Maryland and Virginia. Feminized f ...
Topics: marine life, news, Potomac River (all these topics)

Aquaculture Shock Farmed-fish supply rises, but still may not match demand		05 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Aquaculture Shock Farmed-fish supply rises, but still may not match demand Farmed fish have nearly caught up to wild-caught fish as a source of the world's seafood, reported the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization yesterday. In 1980, just 9 percent of human-consumed fish came from aquaculture; now the number is 43 percent. "Catches in the wild are still high, but they have leveled off, probably for good," say ...
Topics: marine life, news, United Nations (all these topics)

Alaska Man Standing David Benton, head of the Marine Conservation Alliance, answers readers' questions		01 Sep 2006	InterActivist
David Benton, Marine Conservation Alliance. What have you found to be the best incentives to alleviate large numbers of bycatch in ocean fishing? Do large fishing boats wind up with a higher percentage of bycatch than smaller-scale fishing operations?�� -- Angela Mallard, Telluride, Colo. Bycatch control and reduction is an important conservation goal. In Alaska we have employed se ...
Topics: Alaska, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, marine life (all these topics)

A Little More Conservation David Benton, head of the Marine Conservation Alliance, answers Grist's questions		28 Aug 2006	InterActivist
David Benton. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm executive director of the Marine Conservation Alliance, based in Juneau, Alaska. What does your organization do? MCA is a nonprofit organization established by the Alaska seafood industry that promotes sustainable fishing. America has an increasing appetite for healthy seafood, but we must be sure that ...
Topics: Alaska, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, marine life (all these topics)

The Few, the Proud, the Marine Reserves California will create nation's most ambitious marine-protection program		17 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
The Few, the Proud, the Marine Reserves California will create nation's most ambitious marine-protection program California wildlife officials voted this week to create 15 distinct marine reserves from Half Moon Bay to Santa Barbara, making about 110 square miles of ocean off-limits to most human activity and giving another 94 square miles or so protection of varying degrees. Backers hope the plan will provide import ...
Topics: California, marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

The Sea Lion King A new documentary delves into the lives of California sea lions		17 Aug 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: California, green living, marine life (all these topics)

Tune In to Morro Enviros buy out trawlers in California bay		08 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
Tune In to Morro Enviros buy out trawlers in California bay Attempting to conserve rapidly vanishing bottom-dwelling fish stocks off the central California coast, Environmental Defense and The Nature Conservancy have teamed with bottom-trawling fishers to create three "no-trawl zones" covering a total of nearly 6,000 square miles. In exchange for their endorsement, t ...
Topics: California, Environmental Defense Fund, marine life, Nature Conservancy, news (all these topics)

From Sea to Declining Sea Oceans are really messed up, L.A. Times reports in special series		31 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
From Sea to Declining Sea Oceans are really messed up, L.A. Times reports in special series The Los Angeles Times is running a snazzy multimedia series on the distressing decline of the world's oceans, with photos, video, and depressing statistics galore (for example, 97 percent of elkhorn and staghorn coral off Florida's coast have disappeared since 1975). In part one of the five-part series, we learn how industrial and agricult ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns		07 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
C'est Fin Sushi popularity means bad news for tuna, WWF warns The popularity of sushi is sending tuna stocks into a downward spiral, says the World Wildlife Fund, warning that Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna will go extinct if commercial fishers continue hooking them at current rates. "The fishery is running out of control," WWF says in a new report. To keep ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, Mediterranean, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Hey, Poacher, Leave Those Squids Alone Pirates cause a social and environmental ruckus in Africa		23 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Hey, Poacher, Leave Those Squids Alone Pirates cause a social and environmental ruckus in Africa There's lots of money involved in commercial fishing off African coastlines -- a full trawler can bring in over $400,000. The high stakes, poor regulation, and lack of coast guards lure "pirates," foreign anglers who bully locals and deplete area fish stocks illegally. Many unlicensed ves ...
Topics: Africa, Greenpeace, marine life, news, oceans, Sierra Leone (all these topics)

Waves of Mutilation Oceans are in deep trouble, says U.N.		19 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Waves of Mutilation Oceans are in deep trouble, says U.N. Human exploitation of the oceans has outpaced conservation efforts, the United Nations said Friday. It warned that ocean degradation is "rapidly passing the point of no return." The watery deep, home to more than 90 percent of living organisms, faces danger from pollution, litter, overfishing, shipping, and climate change. Populations of large fi ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans, United Nations (all these topics)

Safe in Sound Puget Sound orcas gain more protection; Florida manatees downlisted to threatened		12 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Safe in Sound Puget Sound orcas gain more protection; Florida manatees downlisted to threatened Ninety endangered orcas in the Northwest may soon swim easier, as the National Marine Fisheries Service proposed Friday to designate nearly the entire Puget Sound -- about 2,500 square miles of water -- critical orca habitat. The usual suspects took the usual sides: developers o ...
Topics: Florida, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, Northwest, oceans (all these topics)

Stick With Pickles and Ice Cream Pregnant women shouldn't eat canned tuna, says Consumer Reports		08 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Stick With Pickles and Ice Cream Pregnant women shouldn't eat canned tuna, says Consumer Reports We're all aware that pregnant women shouldn't overeat seafood because of mercury contamination, but the Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, recommends that moms-to-be skip canned tuna altogether. Most canned light tuna is skipjack, a species relatively low in mercury, but a Chicago Tribune investigation late last ...
Topics: marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

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