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Notable quotable	David Roberts	29 Jan 2008	Gristmill
'... perhaps the worst example of inter-specific aggression any of us had ever seen. This young female had literally had the life beaten out of her.' -- members of the Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit, commenting on the recent discovery that packs of dolphins are attacking, pursuing, and bludgeoning to death not only porpoises but their own young, leaving them with 'broken ribs, imploding lungs, damaged livers and massive internal bleeding' and me with nightmares
Topics: wildlife, oceans, parenting (all these topics)

Navy Been Navy resumes sonar training off California coast		28 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 12:16 PM on 28 Jan 2008 As a legal battle rages on over the U.S. Navy's use of whale-addling sonar, the military maritimers have resumed sonar training off the California coast. source: Associated Press From the Archives Take Me Down to Paradise City. U.S. sets low expectations for this week's climate meeting. 3-2-1 ... Blast Offsets! Efficacy of House of Reps' carbon offsets questioned. 'Paign and Su ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, news, oceans, 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: fishing, oceans, wildlife, endangered species (all these topics)

The Sonar Also Rises Judge temporarily drops two restrictions on Navy's use of sonar, retains others		18 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:58 AM on 18 Jan 2008 Earlier this week, President Bush exempted the U.S. Navy from parts of an environmental law so it could continue to use mid-frequency sonar off the California coast. Mid-frequency sonar has been linked to deafness, beachings, and other injuries of marine mammals. Responding to Bush's move, the federal judge who earlier this month ordered the Navy to adopt restric ...
Topics: litigation, news, oceans, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

The Beep Blue Sea Bush exempts Navy from environmental law in ongoing sonar saga		16 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:59 AM on 16 Jan 2008 President Bush fired another salvo in the ongoing fight pitting the U.S. Navy's use of mid-frequency sonar against whales and other marine mammals that can be harmed by it. Bush yesterday exempted the Navy from parts of the Coastal Zone Management Act that a federal judge recently found the Navy was violating when it used the powerful sonar off the California coast. That judge had o ...
Topics: news, oceans, politics, United States, 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: wildlife, fishing, oceans, toxics (all these topics)

Hey, You Got Your Naval Pierced Judge orders restrictions on U.S. Navy's use of sonar off California coast		04 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:01 AM on 04 Jan 2008 A federal judge yesterday ordered the U.S. Navy to adopt specific restrictions on its use of sonar in order to protect whales and other marine mammals off the California coast. Mid-frequency sonar has been accused of causing a wide range of problems when it's used within proximity of marine mammals, such as temporary deafness, beachings, and various other i ...
Topics: litigation, news, oceans, United States, 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, wildlife, whaling (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: aquaculture, climate, climate science, fishing, oceans, toxics, wildlife (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: oceans, fishing, wildlife, whaling (all these topics)

A jelly new world An influx of jellies in strange places is not so hard to explain	Andrew Sharpless	28 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Over Thanksgiving, I came across a news story that may represent the perfect storm of issues plaguing the oceans. A salmon farm in Northern Ireland was wiped out by a huge swarm of mauve stingers (Pelagia noctiluca), a jelly usually found in the warm Mediterranean sea. In a 35-foot-deep, 10-square-mile swath, the jellies stung and killed 100,000 salmon before workers could reach the pens. It must have been quite a sight. The jelly's scientific name mea ...
Topics: aquaculture, wildlife, oceans, United Kingdom (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, wildlife, fishing, oceans, whaling (all these topics)

Where It Stops, Nobody Knows Navy must adopt safeguards for whales in 2008, says court		14 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 11:54 AM on 14 Nov 2007 Update on the seemingly endless saga of whether the U.S. Navy should restrict underwater sonar use in the interest of whale health: A federal appeals court has ruled that while the Navy may continue its current training exercises in southern California as is, exercises that begin in January must operate under better safeguards for marine mammals. The plan will have to be appro ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans, 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, wildlife, water pollution (all these topics)

As a matter of fact you can't take your eyes off these people Oil companies target the fragile Arctic continental shelf for oil drilling	David Roberts	08 Nov 2007	Gristmill
You're probably against drilling in the Alaskan Refuge, but what you really ought to be worried about is offshore drilling on Alaska's continental shelf, which isn't protected by law or by close attention from environmentalists -- and where the likelihood and impact of accidents are far worse. Read Peter Matthiessen's definitive piece in The Nation: When one considers the more than four thousand spills -- over one a day -- recorded by the oil industry in its land ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, oceans, oil, oil and gas drilling, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news ... Iraqi catches shark, blames America	Andrew Sharpless	03 Nov 2007	Gristmill
... in Iraq, a shark was found 160 miles from the sea in an irrigation canal that joins the Euphrates River. 'I believe America is behind this matter,' said the Iraqi who netted it ... ... the seasonal growth of water hyacinth disrupted local fishing activities along the coast of Lagos in Nigeria. The plant can grow rapidly enough to choke waterways overnight ... ... Turkish academics decided to establish the country's first rehabilitation center for sea tur ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Fish living in trees and underwater pumpkin carving	Andrew Sharpless	27 Oct 2007	Gristmill
... in his weekly radio address, President Bush spoke on conserving fisheries. 'The most important thing is not the size of your catch but the enjoyment of the great outdoors,' he said ... ... conservationists said that talks at a recent international convention devoted to bluefin tuna recovery were derailed by Japan, resulting in no meaningful progress ... ... an MIT researcher designed new equipment to gather scallops from the sea floor with hopes that i ...
Topics: wildlife, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

One if by land, two if by sea Overlap in supervision allows sea turtles to slip through the cracks	Andrew Sharpless	20 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Ask any number of surfers, divers, and ocean-goers of all stripes what one of their favorite ocean critters is, and chances are a good percentage of them will mention sea turtles. And who can blame them? Sea turtles are easygoing in nature, and no one can deny that people are drawn to them more so than some of the other creatures swimming down there. However, recent reports show that sea turtle populations -- the loggerhead in particular -- are on the decline. ...
Topics: endangered species, international politics, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Insomniac zebra fish and stranded sea-turtle babies	Andrew Sharpless	20 Oct 2007	Gristmill
... in defiance of a 1959 treaty that agreed no new claims would be laid on Antarctica, press reports say Britain is poised to claim a million square kilometers of Antarctic seabed ... ... the Canadian government announced it would add six new positions dedicated to fisheries assessment in the Arctic ... ... scientists began mapping the seafloor off the coast of Ulster. One scientist said the results would show that 90 percent of the Irish Republic is land ben ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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