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Club Medusae Jellyfish are everywhere, and that's not a good thing		18 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 11:33 AM on 18 Jun 2008 Photo: Neil Harmon The natural cycle of Mediterranean jellyfish populations is to swell every 12 years, plateau for four to six years, then subside. But massive groups of gelatinous jellies have been showing up for the past eight years, and they show no sign of flagging. In fact, jellies are proliferating worldwide, and that makes scientists nervous. "Jellyfish are an excellent bellwether fo ...
Topics: biodiversity, fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

What Would You Do If We Sang 'Out of Tuna'? E.U. ending bluefin tuna season early amid overfishing concerns		13 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 7:25 AM on 13 Jun 2008 The European Union is ending its bluefin tuna fishing season early this year due to concerns that fishers are already nearing their quotas for the popular, lucrative fish. Bluefin tuna are prized for their succulence in sushi, and demand remains strong. Market prices for bluefin in Japan have nearly tripled since last year. However, next week, commercial b ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Our Jaws Are Dropping Some shark populations in Mediterranean have collapsed, study finds		12 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 5:39 AM on 12 Jun 2008 Populations of five shark species in the Mediterranean Sea have declined by an average of 97 percent in the last 200 years, principally due to fishing, according to a new study to be published in the journal Conservation Biology. Researchers combed historical records and collected other data to piece together the long-term population trend of the blue shark, thresher shark, ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news All salmon, all the time	Andrew Sharpless	12 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Fishery managers voted to cancel the chinook salmon fishing season off the coast of California and most of Oregon in light of the fish population's rapid collapse. The commercial fishery is worth an estimated $30 million ... ... many fishermen considered supporting the ban on West Coast salmon fishing in light of this year's record low catch. 'There's likely no fish, so what are you going to be fishing for?' said one. ... while some other fishermen went ah ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, salmon, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Photosynthesis and invertibrate sex	Andrew Sharpless	05 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Two new studies may upend previously accepted understanding of photosynthesis. A widespread type of cyanobacteria may not use as much carbon dioxide in photosynthesis as presumed, meaning the oceans are capable of less carbon dioxide absorption than scientists had thought ... ... in other cyanobacteria news, scientists discovered that viruses may play a key role in prompting the phytoplankton to consume carbon dioxide and release oxygen ... ... the Natio ...
Topics: animal welfare, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Duplicitous sand dollars and tenacious sea worms	Andrew Sharpless	22 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A federal appeals court ruled that a Hong Kong company should not have been forced to give up the proceeds from 32 tons of shark fins seized by the U.S. Coast Guard in 2002 from the vessel King Diamond II. The 64,695 pounds of shark fins were valued at $618,956 ... ... a three-year study found a thriving reef fish community around three freighters sunk off the coast of Florida ... ... a graduate student discovered that sand dollar larvae can clone themselves ...
Topics: whaling, oceans, wildlife, fishing (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Friendly cetaceans and smelly algae	Andrew Sharpless	15 Mar 2008	Gristmill
A federal advisory panel weighed a ban on salmon fishing in California after a dramatic decline in the fishery. 'The situation now is unprecedented and off the charts,' said the executive director of the Pacific Fishery Management Council ... ... a University of Tasmania scientist discovered two new types of toxic algae in the Southern Ocean, which he believes must be calculated into fishing quotas to prevent further overfishing ... ... ocean acidification c ...
Topics: whaling, fishing, wildlife, oceans (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
'Is it all right to hurt humans in order to protect whales? I think whales are cute and important creatures, but even so, hurting humans is unforgivable.' -- Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, criticizing anti-whaling activists
Topics: animal welfare, fishing, Japan, oceans, quotables, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Tracking whaling ships and whale sharks	Andrew Sharpless	01 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Anti-whaling activists planted tracking devices on Japanese whaling ships as part of a campaign to disrupt the annual hunt, and the Australian customs ship that had been monitoring the hunt returned to port with photographs and video to use for future legal action ... ... a study showed that commercial fishing forced fish to evolve into meeker, less active creatures that carry fewer eggs. Bolder and more adventuresome fish were more likely to be caught by gil ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Shark superhighways and radioactive fish bones	Andrew Sharpless	23 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Scientists studying the sea floor near Antarctica discovered new species of fish, plankton and jellyfish. 'We had some of the world's experts on Antarctic fish and they were completely, completely flabbergasted,' said the leader of the expedition ... ... a researcher studying a dead zone off the northwest coast of the U.S. saw nothing on the ocean floor. 'It appeared that everything that couldn't swim or scuttle away had died,' she said. The dead zone is tho ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Hungry humpheads and sustainable fish in U.K. groceries	Andrew Sharpless	10 Feb 2008	Gristmill
28 cases of ciguatera fish poisoning have been documented since November. Fish such as grouper, snapper, and amberjack eat toxic algae, and people who eat the contaminated fish can suffer from nausea and vomiting. In serious cases, neurological problems can last for months or years ... ... a federal judge rejected President Bush's exemption of the U.S. Navy to rules regulating sonar ... ... scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggested ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Bar codes for salmon and shark-free moisturizer	Andrew Sharpless	02 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Scientists found that up to 6,000 metric tons of sunscreen washes off swimmers annually, and that the sunscreen contains chemicals that lead to bleaching corals. They estimated that up to 10 percent of corals were threatened by sunscreen-related bleaching ... ... the Central Valley, Calif., chinook salmon run, which had historically been one of the West Coast's strongest, fell to record lows this year, prompting concerns about collapse ... ... researchers in ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, salmon, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Scared-straight birds and kite-powered cargo ships	Andrew Sharpless	26 Jan 2008	Gristmill
New protections that required longline tuna fishing fleets to use bird-scaring lines, or tori lines, went into effect. In addition, international measures asked longliners to fish at night, when few birds are active, and to sink baited hooks out of reach ... ... an open fish farm that cultivates kahala, also known as Hawaiian yellowtail or amberjack, planned to double its capacity ... ... a 14-man British and Irish rowing crew crossed the Atlantic in 33 ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Sonar gets presidential pardon, seas more violent	Andrew Sharpless	19 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Citing national security, President Bush exempted the U.S. Navy from a judge's order to cease sonar use in areas frequented by marine mammals ... ... the National Marine Fisheries Service said that the Atlantic white marlin did not meet requirements to be included on the Endangered Species List ... ... a report by the U.K. Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership found that seas around the U.K. were becoming more violent, thanks to rising water levels a ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Manatee deaths down, lonely penguin count up by one	Andrew Sharpless	12 Jan 2008	Gristmill
... a Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner paid a record $55,700 for a bluefin tuna at a Tokyo market, a rate of $92 per pound ... ... a judge ordered the U.S. Navy to cease use of sonar within 12 nautical miles of the California coastline and whenever a marine mammal was sighted within 2,200 yards ... ... fish from a Canadian salmon farm tested positive for malachite green, a carcinogenic substance. 'We have no explanation as to what has happened,' said ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, toxics, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news New fishing quotas and Japanese whaling ships on notice	Andrew Sharpless	21 Dec 2007	Gristmill
The European Union set quotas for 2008, with an 18 percent decrease for cod in most trawling areas except the North Sea, where quotas were raised by 11 percent. Scientists had pushed for cuts to less than half of 2006 levels ... ... the Swedish Board of Fisheries found that no cod had spawned in the waters between Sweden and Denmark this year ... ... two New Zealand fishing companies aimed to earn the Marine Stewardship Council's environmental standa ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Australia steps up to oppose Japanese whaling	Jason D Scorse	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This move by the Australian government is great news. Moral: elections matter! Let's hope other countries follow suit and stop this madness masquerading as "scientific research".
Topics: Australia, fishing, Japan, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Killer farmed salmon and non-deadly sharks	Andrew Sharpless	16 Dec 2007	Gristmill
More than 10,000 people worked to clean up the worst oil spill in South Korean history after a crane punched a hole in an oil tanker, releasing 2.7 million gallons of crude. A 63-year-old shellfish farmer wept as she showed dead tar-coated oysters to a reporter ... ... a study published in Science suggested that leaving more fish in the sea leads to higher profits than the traditional target known as maximum sustainable yield. 'We like to say it's a win-win ...
Topics: climate science, climate, aquaculture, wildlife, fishing, oceans, toxics (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Whales on treadmills and dolphin harassment	Andrew Sharpless	08 Dec 2007	Gristmill
New Zealand installed its first acoustic fish fence, designed to herd salmon smolt in the right direction during migration ... ... Polish fishermen who obeyed a ban on cod will receive up to $11,000 in revenue lost, but those who defied the ban will face fines up to $7,500 ... ... salmon returns for the year in Vancouver were called 'dismal' ... ... for the first time, scientists were able to estimate how much a fin whale can swallow in one lu ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Sea you later Bycatch is the ugliest thing you never see in the fish market	Erik Hoffner	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Unwanted fish tossed back into the ocean. Photo: Brian Skerry. Commercial fishing creates a mind-boggling amount of waste, at least 7.3 million tons (PDF) annually of discarded fish ('bycatch') which are either unwanted, illegal to keep, or mangled in the gear. And this number from 2004 is a conservative estimate, not fully accounting for several major fishing countries. Marine photographer Brian Skerry has some very intense imagery that illustrates this ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, waste, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Rogue flying fish and the 'big, blue rubbish bin'	Andrew Sharpless	01 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Ireland was poised to ask the European Union to permanently ban deep-sea fishing off the country's Atlantic coast to protect coldwater coral reefs ... ... the E.U. completed negotiations with non-E.U. member state Norway for 2008, allowing Norway and the E.U. to increase their North Sea cod catch by 11 percent in exchange for the E.U. reducing its cod discards, or unwanted bycatch, to 10 percent ... ... a marine scientist called for a worldwide ocean ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

I Don't Think You're Ready for This Jelly Northern Ireland and Japan plagued by jellyfish		27 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 10:34 AM on 27 Nov 2007 We're sure you have plenty of fodder for eco-nightmares, but let us add another: killer jellyfish. Last week, a horde of jellies covering an area of 10 square miles (!) attacked Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, killing some 100,000 fish. The mauve stinger jellyfish were well north of their favored Mediterranean habitat, thanks to warmer-than-normal water. Another type, ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, fishing, insanity, Ireland, Japan, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

More bluefin blues Commission on bluefin conservation comes up empty again	Erik Hoffner	27 Nov 2007	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay from Carl Safina, the oceans' most articulate defender and director of the Orion Grassroots Network member group Blue Ocean Institute. His books include Song for the Blue Ocean, Eye of the Albatross, and Voyage of the Turtle. His blog also is a must-read. ----- The story goes like this: It's one of the largest, fastest, most gorgeous fish in the sea. Unfortunately, its extraordinary warm-bloodedness makes its muscle del ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news ... A bottom trawler scores underwater pot, and it's open season for Japanese whalers	Andrew Sharpless	15 Nov 2007	Gristmill
... a study found that just 79 percent of known fish species has been formally described, and that the largest gaps in knowledge centered on the oceans' most diverse habitats ... ... California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suspended all fishing in the San Francisco Bay after the area's worst oil spill in two decades. The governor called the 58,000 gallon spill, which occured after a cargo ship collided with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, an 'unbelievab ...
Topics: aquaculture, fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Six tons of fish soup in Russia, 500 tons of pee in the Pacific	Andrew Sharpless	10 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Investigators found that fisherman caught twice their legal quota of bluefin tuna in European waters this year, despite an early closure to the season due to the stocks' precipitous decline ... ... a trout farm in Nova Scotia was torn apart by Tropical Storm Noel, freeing an estimated 500,000 fish and causing $1 million in damages ... ... endangered humpback and fin whales swam hundreds of miles north of their usual habitats in search of colder waters. 'All si ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

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