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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

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)

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)

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)

Deep-Sea Brawling Coalition calls for ban on deep-sea trawling		06 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Deep-Sea Brawling Coalition calls for ban on deep-sea trawling A coalition of enviro groups is sounding the alarm over deep-sea bottom trawling, petitioning the U.N. to ban a practice they say is rapidly destroying fragile marine ecosystems, including cold-water corals. Bottom trawling consists of dragging a heavy net across the bottom of the ocean, attempting to snag rare fish like the orange roughy -- valued as delicacies in ...
Topics: marine life, United Nations (all these topics)

Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Ballast Off! Invasive Species in Ballast Water Messing With World's Oceans Ships that carry ballast water -- used to balance and stabilize the vessels -- also carry thousands of aquatic species across the globe to foreign habitats, where they can have environmentally catastrophic effects. Recognizing this as one of the top four environmental problems facing the world's oceans (al ...
Topics: globalization, marine life, oceans, placemaking, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Minding Nemo Tropical Fish Trade Threatens Coral Reef Ecosystems		01 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Minding Nemo Tropical Fish Trade Threatens Coral Reef Ecosystems More than 20 million tropical fish and up to 10 million other marine critters are caught each year for the aquarium trade, according to a new report from the U.N. Environment Programme. One of the most destructive harvesting methods involves stunning tropical fish with a near-lethal dose of sodium cyanide, which can harm not only fish but c ...
Topics: Asia, marine life, oceans, toxics, United Nations (all these topics)

For the Birds		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
For the Birds The U.N. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals was widened this week to include six types of whales, a rare Asian river dolphin, the great white shark, and a camel capable of living on salty water. The decision to increase protections for these and other animals came at the end of a meeting on the convention held this week in Bonn, Germany. To protect migratory birds from be ...
Topics: marine life, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

Bang Dugong		13 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bang Dugong The animal that inspired seafarers to tell tales of mermaids is disappearing from the planet, according to a report released this week. The dugong, a large sea mammal that is a cousin to the famous manatee of Florida and the Caribbean, was thought by ancient sailors to be half-woman, half-fish, perhaps because of its habit of holding its young with one f ...
Topics: Caribbean, Florida, marine life, oceans, pollution and waste, United Nations, wildlife (all these topics)

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