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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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Free-Market Willy Bush admin proposes free-market system for managing fisheries		20 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Free-Market Willy Bush admin proposes free-market system for managing fisheries The Bush administration has proposed a major overhaul of the nation's fishery management laws -- ignoring the recommendations of its own scientific commission, and provoking mixed reactions from eco-advocates. The legislation would phase out current regulations limiting the number of days fishers can operate and the amount they catch per trip, in favo ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

Stricken of the Sea Fish diversity declines in the deep ocean		29 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Stricken of the Sea Fish diversity declines in the deep ocean There are fewer and fewer species of big fish in the deep sea, putting overall ocean health in danger. Scientists have known for years that overfishing diminishes species diversity in coastal areas, but in a study published today in the journal Science, researchers report a drop in diversity of deep-ocean fish as well -- in many areas about 50 percent since the 1950s. ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast		14 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Bad for the Fish, Good for the Grist Swim Team Warmer waters put wildlife under deadly stress along Pacific Coast Freaky environmental anomalies along the Pacific Coast from central California to British Columbia may devastate the region's wildlife, scientists say. Ocean temperatures in the area are 2 to 5 degrees higher than usual this summer; no one's sure why, but scientists suspect a lack of north ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans, Pacific Ocean, West Coast (all these topics)

So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Nets Changes in fishing gear could save thousands of cetaceans a year		10 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish Nets Changes in fishing gear could save thousands of cetaceans a year Low-cost changes to commercial fishing gear could prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of whales, porpoises, and dolphins every year, according to the World Wildlife Fund. About 1,000 cetaceans drown every day after becoming entangled in fishing nets, primarily gillnets, which are hard for the animals to see or ...
Topics: business, marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

Creating an Aquaculture of Life Bush admin proposes massive U.S. aquaculture expansion		08 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
Creating an Aquaculture of Life Bush admin proposes massive U.S. aquaculture expansion Just in time to celebrate World Oceans Day (happy WOD, by the way!), the Bush administration has unveiled a plan to open up 3.4 million square miles of U.S. coastal waters to aquaculture. Demand by hungry humans for seafood is expected to reach about 121 million tons in the next five years, even as wild ocean stocks decline; by 2030, ...
Topics: business, marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

The Strife Aquatic Concerns about sea critters grow as ocean noise levels increase		22 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
The Strife Aquatic Concerns about sea critters grow as ocean noise levels increase As the world's shipping traffic more than sextupled between 1948 and 1998, scientists say the oceans' noise levels have increased by some 15 decibels -- and as the impact of decibels is calculated exponentially, that's nothing to sneeze at. Researchers worry about the possible threat to many marine organisms that depend on their sense of hearing to ...
Topics: marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

That's Trawl, Folks Bottom-trawling ban proposed for sensitive Alaskan waters		14 Feb 2005	Daily Grist
That's Trawl, Folks Bottom-trawling ban proposed for sensitive Alaskan waters Paving the way for the largest fishing ban of its kind, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council voted unanimously last Thursday to ban bottom trawling on more than half a million square miles of ocean near Alaska's Aleutian Islands -- an area more than twice the size of California. Bottom trawling involves dragging weighted nets along the ...
Topics: Alaska, marine life, news, oceans (all these topics)

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