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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)

Just Breathe Facts and figures on air quality and Latino health in the U.S.	Kathryn Schulz	17 Jun 2005	Counter Culture
14 -- percentage of total U.S. population of Latin American descent in 2004 (projected)1 Shouldn't she be breathing easy? 92 -- percentage of the U.S. Latino population living in urban areas in 20002, 3 80 -- percentage of Latinos living in counties that violated at least one federal air-pollution standard in 20022 57 -- percentage of non-Latino whites living in counties that violate at leas ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, energy, environmental justice, marine life, politics, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (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)

Are You There Cod? It's Me, Niaz Niaz Dorry, oceans campaigner, answers readers' questions		03 Jun 2005	InterActivist
Niaz Dorry, Clean Catch. What are three things that consumers can do to help promote healthy oceans?�� -- Kristin Deason, Arlington, Va. 1. Think globally, but eat fish locally. 2. Don't expect the same seafood item year-round. 3. Advocate for policy changes that take into account the entire marine ecosystem and give preference to small-scale fishing operations over industrial/factory-scale ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Hope and Dorry Niaz Dorry, oceans campaigner, answers Grist's questions		31 May 2005	InterActivist
Niaz Dorry. What work do you do? I'm the cofounder of Clean Catch, a new project aimed at promoting diverse, healthy oceans by supporting the people who have historically shown themselves to be responsible stewards of the ocean -- small-scale fishing communities. What does your organization do? Clean Catch works with and supports small-scale fishing communities that are actively advocating for and/or practicing ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, marine life, 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)

Out of Tuna Bluefin tuna, unable to swim inside the lines, at risk of extinction		03 May 2005	Daily Grist
Out of Tuna Bluefin tuna, unable to swim inside the lines, at risk of extinction Apparently western Atlantic bluefin tuna don't understand the concept of fisheries quotas, and may soon face extinction because of it, marine scientists report in the journal Nature. Bluefin tuna can grow up to 10 feet in length and weigh 1,500 lbs., and, due to high demand for sushi, they can fetch as much as $98,000 on the Tokyo fish market ...
Topics: Atlantic Ocean, marine life, news (all these topics)

Bycatcher in the Eye Iconic Galapagos Islands threatened by longline fishing, other stuff		31 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Bycatcher in the Eye Iconic Galapagos Islands threatened by longline fishing, other stuff The Galapagos Islands are iconic for biologists and conservationists, home to a dizzying array of rare and endangered species that inspired Charles Darwin's seminal work on evolution. Today, the entire marine ecosystem surrounding the islands may be in jeopardy. The militant fishing unions that hold sway over the adminis ...
Topics: Ecuador, Galapagos Islands, marine life, news (all these topics)

A Little Crab'll Do Ya New Chesapeake Bay conservation ads appeal to appetites		29 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
A Little Crab'll Do Ya New Chesapeake Bay conservation ads appeal to appetites The Chesapeake Bay Program's current public-education campaign features the catchy, slogan "Save the Crabs ... Then Eat 'Em," sure to enrage easily enraged animal-rights activists everywhere. Via billboards, TV commercials, and print ads, the campaign asks area residents to wait until fall to fertiliz ...
Topics: advertising, animal welfare, business, marine life, news, toxics (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)

A Warm Unwelcome Seabirds suffer as climate change unravels North Sea food web	Audrey Schulman	25 Jan 2005	Main Dish
Guillemots are disappearing ... Photo: Dr. Brian Wilson, Centre for Bioscience ImageBank. On the south side of the isle of Shetland, off the coast of Scotland, there are more than 1,200 guillemot nests. Last spring, all of them were empty. No pear-shaped eggs, no downy chicks, no next generation of guillemots. Elsewhere on Shetland, the scene was even more disheartening: 24,00 ...
Topics: climate, marine life, oceans (all these topics)

The Terminal Enviros gear up for international battle over Siberian oil pipeline		21 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
The Terminal Enviros gear up for international battle over Siberian oil pipeline Russia's 2,565-mile, $15.5 billion trans-Siberian oil pipeline -- currently under construction -- is at the center of a major emerging international environmental brouhaha. At issue is the Pacific terminal site. Recently, the terminus was abruptly moved from Vostochny, Russia's main Pacific industrial port, to Perevoznaya, a pristine bay an ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oil, Russia (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)

Shark Tale U.S. proposes international rules to curb shark killing		16 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Shark Tale U.S. proposes international rules to curb shark killing Those Americans who despair in thinking their country a laggard on so many international environmental issues can take heart -- at least the U.S. is firmly against shark finning. Yesterday, at a conservation meeting being hosted in New Orleans, the U.S. government proposed sweeping international measures to curtail the killing of sharks in the A ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, politics (all these topics)

Flipper Flop Court rules that whales and dolphins can't sue		28 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Flipper Flop Court rules that whales and dolphins can't sue "..." Did you hear that? That was us breaking the bad news to the whale community: They can't sue the U.S. government. Such was the unanimous ruling of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week, responding to a lawsuit against President Bush brought on behalf of "the cetacean community" by Hawaii lawyer Lanny Sinkin. At issue is ...
Topics: marine life, politics, United States (all these topics)

Fish 'n' Chicks Study finds excessive mercury in 20 percent of women of childbearing age		22 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Fish 'n' Chicks Study finds excessive mercury in 20 percent of women of childbearing age A new Greenpeace-commissioned study on the correlation between fish consumption and levels of mercury in the body has produced interim results, and they may cause you to think twice about your next order of a tuna-salad sandwich. The study analyzed hair samples sent in by people, many of whom read about the study on the inter ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Potomac Daddies Male bass in Potomac River laying eggs		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Potomac Daddies Male bass in Potomac River laying eggs Male bass in the South Branch of the Potomac River in West Virginia are laying eggs. This is not behavior that people in the know typically expect from male bass. While researchers assume that pollutants of some sort are responsible, this particular stretch of the Potomac does well on the usual water-quality tests. "It's counterintuitive to think we ...
Topics: marine life, water pollution, West Virginia (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)

Fish Wrap Kerry's struggle with fishery policy illustrates his strengths and weaknesses		30 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Fish Wrap Kerry's struggle with fishery policy illustrates his strengths and weaknesses The Seattle Times wraps up its excellent week-long series on the presidential candidates' environmental stances with a story on John Kerry's long struggle with fishery policy in the senator's home state, Massachusetts. It's a revealing case study of the candidate's strengths and weaknesses. On the positive side, Kerry ...
Topics: elections, marine life, Massachusetts, politics (all these topics)

Water Racket! Noise in the ocean is killing sea creatures		23 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Water Racket! Noise in the ocean is killing sea creatures The world's oceans are getting noisier and it's killing the creatures that live there, scientists say. One major culprit is oil and gas drilling, which involves low-frequency seismic pulses used to survey geologic strata; military sonar and large shipping vessels also generate their share of racket. The U.K.'s Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, which recently ...
Topics: marine life, mining and drilling (all these topics)

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