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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

C'est Finny New marine management rules may hamper restoration of fisheries		23 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
C'est Finny New marine management rules may hamper restoration of fisheries The National Marine Fisheries Service has released new guidelines for restoring depleted fish stocks, but some friends of the finned worry the rules may unduly favor the fishing industry. Current rules mandate that regional fisheries managers aim to restore stocks within 10 years. The newly proposed rules would let them devise v ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, news (all these topics)

Don't Go Fish Historic bottom-fishing restrictions adopted for West Coast waters		17 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Don't Go Fish Historic bottom-fishing restrictions adopted for West Coast waters The Pacific Fishery Management Council this week approved a permanent ban on trawl fishing for nearly 300,000 square miles of federal waters off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California. The plan -- which will now be forwarded to the National Marine Fisheries Service for final approval; it's expected to ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, news, West Coast (all these topics)

You've Got Whale Feds propose threatened status for Puget Sound orcas		17 Dec 2004	Daily Grist
You've Got Whale Feds propose threatened status for Puget Sound orcas The National Marine Fisheries Service yesterday proposed giving threatened status to a population of 80-some orcas that spend their summers in Washington state's Puget Sound and the waters surrounding British Columbia's Vancouver Island. Government officials say the listing would be somewhat symbolic, as the marine mammals alre ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Washington (all these topics)

Pesticidal EPA Sued Over Consultations With Pesticide Industry Group		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Pesticidal EPA Sued Over Consultations With Pesticide Industry Group Fourteen leading chemical companies have formed a task force that is meeting in secret with the U.S. EPA, attempting to weaken endangered species rules relating to pesticide use -- so charges a lawsuit filed against the EPA on Thursday by a coalition of Seattle-based environmental groups. The lawsuit ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics, toxics, US EPA, Washington (all these topics)

At Sea		06 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
At Sea Fishers in the Northeast grudgingly celebrated a victory yesterday when federal regulators and environmental groups agreed to put a nine-month freeze on new regulations that will dramatically limit fishing when enacted. The National Marine Fisheries Service has been hearing it from all sides -- fishers have argued that any tougher rules will devastate their industry, while environ ...
Topics: business, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast (all these topics)

Killer! Whale Suits		08 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Killer! Whale Suits 'Tis the season to sue over whales. Environmentalists in the Pacific Northwest announced this week that they plan to sue the National Marine Fisheries Service over its decision to deny protected status to orca whales in Puget Sound. In June, the NMFS found that the local orca population, which has declined 20 percent since 1996, does indeed face p ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest, NRDC, oceans, United States (all these topics)

Shark Skin Suit		30 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Shark Skin Suit Last summer, they were are our worst enemy; now they need a best friend. We're talking about sharks, of course. The much-maligned beach marauders are now the subject of a lawsuit filed earlier this week against the U.S. government by environmental organizations. The National Audubon Society, Earthjustice, and the Oc ...
Topics: environmental justice, environmental non-government organizations, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, politics (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		29 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange The Bush administration gave the first indication yesterday of how it would work to resolve the water wars in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border -- and enviros immediately warned that the administration was kowtowing to farmers while giving short sh ...
Topics: California, climate, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Running a Groundfish		04 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Running a Groundfish The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service is breaking the law by failing to sufficiently protect groundfish in New England, a federal judge ruled last Friday. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler said she would issue an order with specific directions for how the agency should stop overfishing, because the NMFS can't be trusted to enforce the ...
Topics: environmental justice, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, New England, politics (all these topics)

This Rocks, Fish!		23 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
This Rocks, Fish! Enviros scored a victory yesterday when a federal judge ordered the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to do more to protect two species of rockfish, bocaccio and lingcod. U.S. Magistrate Judge James Larson of San Francisco said that the agency had failed to track the number of rockfish that die after they are inadvertently caught and tossed back -- and that current fishing limits for the ...
Topics: marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service (all these topics)

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