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Cod Is Dead Richard Ellis's The Empty Ocean delves into the world of marine destruction	Elizabeth Grossman	24 Jul 2003	Arts and Minds
"It's a fire alarm," says Richard Ellis about his new book, The Empty Ocean, which joins a chorus of recent publications documenting the precipitous decline of world fisheries and the dire state of the marine environment. That alarm should make you think long and hard about your lunchtime tuna sandwich or the sashimi you order at your favorite Japanese restaurant. T ...
Topics: marine life, oceans (all these topics)

Contempt of Corps		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Contempt of Corps A federal judge held the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in contempt of court yesterday for failing to lower water levels in the Missouri River to protect endangered species. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the Corps and the secretary of the Army to reduce water levels in the river as part of an injunction s ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, marine life, Missouri River, rivers and watersheds, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Tangled Up in Deep Blue		16 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Tangled Up in Deep Blue Each day, nearly 1,000 whales, dolphins, and porpoises are sent to an untimely death after they get tangled up in nets and other fishing equipment, according to a new study conducted by American and Scottish scientists and released by the World Wildlife Fund. These accidental captures may be the biggest threat to the sea mammals' survival, more deadly than pollution and collisions with ships ...
Topics: marine life, oceans, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

A Fine Kettle of Fish		06 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
A Fine Kettle of Fish The federal Clean Water Act might be a great thing in theory, but how's it doing in practice? Not so well, it turns out, due to the failure of the U.S. EPA to adequately enforce it. At any given moment, roughly 25 percent of all large industrial plants and water-treatment facilities are in violation of federal pollution standards -- but the EPA generally fails to ...
Topics: health, marine life, toxics, United States, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Don't Fear the Reefer		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Don't Fear the Reefer The Australian government today announced plans to put nearly one-third of the Great Barrier Reef off limits to fishing and trawling. "This will provide the largest network of protected marine areas in the world," said Minister for the Environment David Kemp. Environmental advocates praised the move but pointed out that the government needs to do more, including protect a ...
Topics: Australia, marine life, mining and drilling, oceans (all these topics)

Stock Options		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Stock Options Pressure is mounting in the U.S. for major reform of fisheries policies, with the aim of rebuilding fish stocks that have been decimated by decades of overfishing and ecosystem degradation. "What's going on out there is the last buffalo hunt with regard to our fisheries," said Leon Panetta, former chief of staff under President Clinton and now chair of the Pew Oceans Commission, a private group that has be ...
Topics: marine life, United States (all these topics)

Sturgeon General Warning		22 May 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: lakes, marine life, wildlife, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Sturgeon General Warning Wisconsin anglers band together to protect an elusive fish	Erik Ness	22 May 2003	Main Dish
Every winter, on the outskirts of Appleton, Wis., the world's strangest subdivision suddenly appears. Thousands of shacks, each about the size of a two-hole outhouse, proliferate on the frozen expanse of Lake Winnebago. Dick Koerner in his shack on Lake Winnebago. Photo: Erik Ness. Early in the morning on Feb. 8, Dick Koerner jockeyed his pickup along the frozen track to his weather-beate ...
Topics: green living, marine life, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Turtle Wane		20 May 2003	Daily Grist
Turtle Wane Having depleted their own nation's once-plentiful turtle populations, Chinese buyers are now offering top dollar for turtles from the southern U.S. In the last three years, there's been a dramatic upswing in the number of turtles exported to China, where the animals' meat is considered a delicacy and their shells are ground up to make virility powders. In 2002, ...
Topics: Alabama, China, marine life, Mississippi, North Carolina, South, South Carolina (all these topics)

There's Other Fish in the Sea. But Not Many.		15 May 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: marine life There's Other Fish in the Sea. But Not Many. Ninety percent of the world's largest and most economically important fish have disappeared due to a half-century of industrial fishing, according to a groundbreaking study published in today's issue of the journal Nature. The study found that modern fishing has become so efficient that it can decimate 80 percent or more of a given species in just 15 years; the species currently affected include cod, halibut, tuna, swordfi ...
Topics: marine life (all these topics)

To What Porpoise?		14 May 2003	Daily Grist
To What Porpoise? Numerous species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises are dwindling and could go extinct within the next decade, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) warns in a report released today. Take the baiji, a freshwater dolphin found only in China's Yangtze River: Surveys taken in 1985 and 1986 estimated the total population of the species to be around 300, but surveys between 1997 and 1999 co ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, marine life (all these topics)

Sonic Doom		13 May 2003	Daily Grist
Sonic Doom At least half a dozen dead porpoises have washed up on beaches in Washington state and British Columbia in the last week, spurring speculation that they were killed when the USS Shoup, a Navy destroyer, used its high-intensity sonar last Monday as it traveled near the San Juan Islands off the Washington coast. Observers reported that as many as 100 porpoises leapt through the water at high speed in an attempt to ge ...
Topics: health, marine life, politics (all these topics)

Smoked Salmon Plan		08 May 2003	Daily Grist
Smoked Salmon Plan The Bush administration will have to rethink its salmon-management plan in the Columbia River Basin, following a federal court ruling yesterday that found the current plan inadequate to protect the endangered species and reduce the negative impact of hydroelectric dams. The ruling marks a major triumph for environmentalists and a serious blow to the White House ...
Topics: Columbia River, dams, energy, fishing, marine life, politics, Washington (all these topics)

Otter Destruction		30 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Otter Destruction In true whodunit style, there are many suspects in the puzzling deaths of sea otters up and down the California coast, but, as yet, no clear solution to the mystery. By yesterday, 44 dead sea otters had washed ashore from San Francisco to Santa Barbara, well above the 10-year high for the month of April of 29 deaths, and the high for any month of 34. This month's deceased sea otters brought to 91 the total death to ...
Topics: California, marine life (all these topics)

Cod Gonnit		25 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Cod Gonnit The Canadian government this week banned all commercial and recreational cod fishing in an effort to stave off the absolute collapse of the species, putting an end to an industry and a tradition that have defined the country's Atlantic coast for centuries. The radical decline of Eastern Canadian cod stocks is one of the greatest environmental disasters of the 20th century, attributed to overfishing and, perhaps, subtle change ...
Topics: Canada, marine life (all these topics)

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?		18 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: marine life, oceans, Peru, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Earth Island of the Blue Dolphin		11 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Earth Island of the Blue Dolphin In better news for enviros, a federal judge has upheld the existing definition of "dolphin-safe" tuna, thwarting an effort by the Bush administration to relax the term to include tuna caught by methods that can harm marine mammals. U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson noted in his ruling yesterday that the administration's efforts to change the definition seemed to have been driven more by t ...
Topics: marine life, politics (all these topics)

Well, They Otter		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Well, They Otter Sea otters should be allowed to frolic freely along the Southern California coastline, according to a new recovery plan drawn up for the threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Hailed by enviros, the plan, developed over 14 years, advocates the end of a federal program that relocates otters away from shellfish grounds to benefit fishers. Th ...
Topics: California, environmental restoration, marine life, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

Paint Misbehavin'		31 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Paint Misbehavin' Vexed by barnacles, algae, and other wee hitchhikers that attach themselves to the hulls of ships, the maritime industry has been fighting back with a paint that keeps hulls clean for one to five years by slowly releasing biocides that kill off unwanted organisms. Problem is, the critter-killing paint additives don't stay put -- they leach out into seawater where they can damage coral reefs and kill mollu ...
Topics: marine life, placemaking, toxics (all these topics)

Flexing Their Mussels		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Mussels Roughly 1,000 miles of rivers and streams in Alabama could be protected as critical habitat for endangered species, under a new proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, which is designed to protect eight endangered and three threatened species of mussels, was great news for environmentalists and bad news ...
Topics: Alabama, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Fish and Cheeps		21 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Fish and Cheeps Never mind doctors and drug dealers -- there's a new clientele for beepers: dolphins. If some lawmakers in the U.K. get their way, British fishing fleets will soon be required to use high-tech equipment resembling beepers to keep dolphins, porpoises, and other cetaceans out of fishing nets. Known as "pingers," the devices emit random ultrasonic noises designed to keep marine mammals away from potentiall ...
Topics: marine life, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Trout Fishing in America		21 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Trout Fishing in America Environmental groups sued the Washington State Fish and Wildlife Department this week to prevent the springtime release of more than 5 million hatchery-born salmon in the Puget Sound area. The groups, Washington Trout and the Native Fish Society, pointed to recent studies showing that hatchery fish are harming their wild-born brethren by out-competing them for space and food, and sometimes even eat ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, Washington (all these topics)

My Abalone Has a First Name		06 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
My Abalone Has a First Name The word "abalone" probably doesn't bring to mind the same connotations as, say, "heroin" -- but conservationists in South Africa say that illegal trade in the ocean mollusk has wreaked the kind of havoc usually associated with narcotics, bringing guns, gangs, and violence to previously peaceful communities. Abalone is a prized gourmet food in much of Asia, and the market for it ...
Topics: Africa, marine life, wildlife (all these topics)

Dolphin Self-Defense	Suzy Becker	03 Mar 2003	Ha.

Topics: marine life (all these topics)

F Is for Fish		27 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
F Is for Fish The Bush administration received an "F" from the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition for failing to make progress on protecting endangered salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The coalition, which is comprised of regional environmental and conservation organizations, said the administration has not implemented three-quarters of the measures mandated under a salmon-recovery plan adopted in 2000. Sin ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, Northwest, politics (all these topics)

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