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Kelp, I Need Somebody It's World Ocean Day, and the watery deep could use some help		08 Jun 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: marine life, oceans (all these topics)

The Turn of the Drew Drew Weiner, reef-protection crusader, answers readers' questions		02 Jun 2006	InterActivist
Drew Weiner, Reef Protection International. Does Reef Protection International have a position on keeping corals and invertebrates as aquarium pets? -- Linus C., Washington, D.C. RPI supports responsible fish/reef keeping. We believe that having a home aquarium provides people, especially children, with a great opportunity to learn about marine science and fish behavior. In addition, it is the e ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Swimming With the Fishes Drew Weiner, reef-protection crusader, answers Grist's questions		29 May 2006	InterActivist
Drew Weiner. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm the director of Reef Protection International. What does your organization do? RPI contributes to coral-reef conservation by educating the public about the marine aquarium trade and helping consumers make responsible, "reef-safe" buying choices. Coral reefs are in crisis due to warming seas, pollution, and overfi ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings		15 May 2006	Daily Grist
He Who Pays the Piper Calls the Tuna California loses suit to make tuna companies issue mercury warnings California law requires products containing chemicals that could cause reproductive harm or cancer to have warning labels, but a state Superior Court judge has ruled that the law does not apply to mercury-licious canned tuna. Mercury has been shown to slow neurological development, thus the ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, news, toxics (all these topics)

It's All Happening at the Zooplankton New species of deep-sea zooplankton discovered		05 May 2006	Daily Grist
It's All Happening at the Zooplankton New species of deep-sea zooplankton discovered Scientists have found 10 to 20 new species of zooplankton deep in the Atlantic Ocean, including teeny-tiny shrimp-like creatures, gooey jellyfish-esque plankton, and swimming worms. Zooplankton form the base of many ocean food chains and act as carbon sinks by feeding on carbon-laden plant phytoplankton and then sinking to the ocean depth ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, news (all these topics)

The Kittens Are Next ... Global warming is bad news for baby walruses		17 Apr 2006	Daily Grist
The Kittens Are Next ... Global warming is bad news for baby walruses It seems global warming is now separating babies from their mothers. Heartless bastard. The cute and bristly walrus makes its home on Arctic ice shelves, which are melting rapidly as unusually warm water flows in from the Bering Sea. As their happy walrus home melts and collapses, baby walruses can be separated from their mothers and swim out into dee ...
Topics: Arctic, climate, marine life, news (all these topics)

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)

Tastes Like Geoduck A sampling from the 2006 Seafood Summit		31 Jan 2006	Dispatches
by Katharine Wroth Tuesday, 31 Jan 2006 Seattle, Wash. Seattle is for fish-lovers. Photo: iStockphoto. This week, 235 hardy soles braved the rains of Seattle to attend the 2006 Seafood Summit, a gathering of sustainable-seafood advocates. On Sunday, at a reception that transformed the city's aquarium into an otherworldly nightclub, they sampled West Coast delicacies, schmoozed with each other, and learned how to pronounce the name of ...
Topics: Dispatches, marine life (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)

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