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Love Means Never Having to Remove Your Oil Platforms Controversial research shows fish thriving around California oil platforms		14 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Love Means Never Having to Remove Your Oil Platforms Controversial research shows fish thriving around California oil platforms Controversy over 27 oil platforms off the California coast is making waves (ouch!). Delightfully monikered marine biologist Milton Love says the submerged portions of the platforms are serving as artificial reefs and valuable habitat for overfished species like rockfish and bocaccio (w ...
Topics: California, energy, marine life, news, oil (all these topics)

Fin and Dandy Low-mercury fish label debuts in Northern California		28 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Fin and Dandy Low-mercury fish label debuts in Northern California If you love fish but avoid it because you're worried about high mercury content, you may be in luck -- if you live in Northern California, that is. Pacific Seafood Group, a large fish wholesaler, has partnered with Holiday Quality Foods, a chain of 19 grocery stores in rural Northern California, to test-market fish labeled as low-mercury. Fish to be s ...
Topics: California, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Seaweed's Big Adventure Scientists discover biodiversity hotspot on Caribbean atoll		15 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Seaweed's Big Adventure Scientists discover biodiversity hotspot on Caribbean atoll That ex-girlfriend was right -- there are other fish in the sea! Scientists have discovered a biodiversity hotspot in the Caribbean, home to a (possibly) new fish species and a mini-rainforest of seaweeds. Over a two-week period at the coral-covered Saba Bank Atoll, 12 researchers braved heavy seas to dive 100 feet below the surface twice a day ...
Topics: Caribbean, marine life, news (all these topics)

This Global Thing Is Everywhere! Weird weather is messing with marine ecosystems along the West Coast		02 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
This Global Thing Is Everywhere! Weird weather is messing with marine ecosystems along the West Coast Tens of thousands of starved seabirds washed up on West Coast beaches last spring, and researchers are blaming -- surprise! -- above-normal ocean temperatures and weird weather and wind patterns. Half of the auklets in California's Farallon Islands didn't even try to breed last spring, and those that tried started l ...
Topics: climate, marine life, news, West Coast (all these topics)

Trawl of Tears Deepwater fish being pushed to the edge of extinction		06 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Trawl of Tears Deepwater fish being pushed to the edge of extinction Key species of deep-sea fish are nearing extinction, having declined by up to 98 percent in the past few decades. In a new study in the journal Nature, three researchers analyzed catches of five deepwater species from the northwest Atlantic, off the Canadian coast -- each seldom harvested prior to the 1970s. They found that populations of all five had fallen precipitousl ...
Topics: marine life, news (all these topics)

Since U Been Overdrawn California delta tapped for too much water, in ecological crisis		05 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Since U Been Overdrawn California delta tapped for too much water, in ecological crisis The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in California is in ecological freefall. The 738,000-acre area supplies drinking water to millions and irrigation water for major agricultural producers. The delta smelt, a fish that's an indicator species for the region's overall health, is fast sliding toward extinction, than ...
Topics: California, marine life, news, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Let Them Eat Hake International caviar trade halted to save sturgeon		04 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Let Them Eat Hake International caviar trade halted to save sturgeon Oh, man, this is going to cramp our style at Grist staff parties: A global ban on international export of wild caviar -- salty black sturgeon eggs prized by gourmets -- took effect on Tuesday. The U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species nixed the lucrative trade, worth about $100 million a year, to try and save overfished sturgeon stocks from extinct ...
Topics: marine life, news (all these topics)

Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds		02 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Bye Catch Over a fifth of all fish caught are killed and discarded, study finds The first comprehensive study of "bycatch" -- unwanted fish caught and discarded by commercial fishing operations -- has confirmed the worst fears of conservationists: Over a fifth of all fish caught by U.S. commercial fishers, around 1.1 million tons, are tossed out every year. Commis ...
Topics: Alaska, commercial and industry organizations, Gulf of Mexico, marine life, news (all these topics)

Toxic Femmes SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish		14 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Toxic Femmes SoCal sewage is feminizing bottom fish Like many of their land-bound counterparts, male fish off the coast of Southern California are developing female sex characteristics. In the fishes' case it goes beyond metrosexuality -- we're talking ovary tissue in the testes (ew). Researchers strongly suspect sewage laced with human-made hormone-disrupting chemicals. Two separate studies, one in the field and one ...
Topics: California, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

Win, Lose, or Crawfish New Orleans-area fish, shrimp, crab are OK to eat; oysters, not so much		03 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Win, Lose, or Crawfish New Orleans-area fish, shrimp, crab are OK to eat; oysters, not so much Though few folks are there to eat it, much of the seafood from Lake Pontchartrain next to New Orleans seems safe for consumption, say state environmental officials. About 80 percent of the city's sewage-tainted floodwaters have been pumped into the lake, but so far no significant chem ...
Topics: Louisiana, marine life, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, news (all these topics)

Don't It Make My Brown Eggs Blue U.S. bans imports of beluga caviar to help conserve sturgeon		30 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Don't It Make My Brown Eggs Blue U.S. bans imports of beluga caviar to help conserve sturgeon The U.S. -- destination for 60 percent of the world's beluga-sturgeon caviar -- yesterday announced a ban on beluga imports from the Caspian Sea, where sturgeon stocks have plunged by about 90 percent in the past two decades, a casualty of pollution and unlawful harvests. Legal caviar trade is worth about $100 millio ...
Topics: Caspian Sea, marine life, news, United States (all these topics)

Vestal Sturgeons Sturgeon stocks on extreme worldwide decline		23 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Vestal Sturgeons Sturgeon stocks on extreme worldwide decline People have been consuming black caviar since about 500 B.C., but it may be time to curb the habit: Global stocks of sturgeon, the fish that supplies the salty treat, are in trouble. In a new study published this week in the journal Fish and Fisheries, marine researchers report that nearly every sturgeon population worldwide is either severely depleted or on the brink of extinc ...
Topics: marine life, news (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)

Net Loss Katrina has wiped out Louisiana's fishing industry		08 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Net Loss Katrina has wiped out Louisiana's fishing industry This should be the height of Louisiana's shrimp and oyster season, but the state's $2.7 billion-a-year commercial fishing industry may be another casualty of Hurricane Katrina. The region's fishers, shrimpers, and oyster harvesters typically supply the U.S. with about 30 percent of its seafood, and the industry employs about 27,000 people. But Katrina destr ...
Topics: business, Louisiana, marine life, news (all these topics)

Call Me Fishmeal Cape Cod's namesake may not rebound unless fishing is further curtailed		17 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Call Me Fishmeal Cape Cod's namesake may not rebound unless fishing is further curtailed Cod off the Massachusetts coast have declined almost 25 percent since 2001, and some fear the once-abundant fish may never bounce back unless fishing is further restricted. Many marine scientists worry that the overall cod population may be well below what's needed for survival and recovery. Georges Bank cod were long a mainstay of New England's fishe ...
Topics: marine life, news (all these topics)

Hairy Otters Are Now Half-Gone (Wince) Alaskan sea otters being added to endangered species list		10 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Hairy Otters Are Now Half-Gone (Wince) Alaskan sea otters being added to endangered species list Suffering population declines that are baffling scientists, the sea otters of southwest Alaska are being designated a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act, which entitles the furry marine mammals to stronger federal protections. Government biologists plan to investigate why their numbers have plummeted from tens of thou ...
Topics: Alaska, marine life, news (all these topics)

Looney Tuna Feds, pressured by industry, lax in warning public about mercury in tuna		01 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Looney Tuna Feds, pressured by industry, lax in warning public about mercury in tuna The Wall Street Journal today continues its series on toxic chemicals and human health by taking a hard look at some fishy dealings concerning tuna and mercury. For years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has known that canned tuna contains mercury. A mercury risk assessment from the U.S. EPA strongly suggested that children and women of chi ...
Topics: marine life, news, toxics (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)

I'll Take Menhaden Tiny fish being wiped out to make health-food supplements		26 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
I'll Take Menhaden Tiny fish being wiped out to make health-food supplements Omega Protein Corp. is overharvesting a little Chesapeake Bay fish called menhaden in order to make omega-3 fatty-acid food supplements for its health-crazed customers, leading to a decline in the striped bass that eat them (the menhaden, not the supplements or the health-crazed customers). This according to Greenpeace, which protested at ...
Topics: business, Greenpeace, marine life, news (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)

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)

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)

Don't Get Fresh With Me Regional FWS director warns employees against using new science		24 May 2005	Daily Grist
Don't Get Fresh With Me Regional FWS director warns employees against using new science The southwestern regional director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service doesn't like his science fresh. He recently issued a memo instructing his staff to disregard any genetic science about an endangered species conducted after the species was listed under the Endangered Species Act (in some cases as far back as the 1970s). His ...
Topics: marine life, news, Southwest, wildlife (all these topics)

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