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Whale, You Were Out! Makah tribe members sentenced for illegal whale hunt		01 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 7:09 AM on 01 Jul 2008 The five members of the Makah tribe who participated in an unsanctioned hunt of a gray whale last year were sentenced earlier this week. The Makah tribe, whose reservation is located in northwestern Washington state, is the only tribe in the country with treaty rights to hunt whales. However, the long, arduous process of obtaining a waiver to actually conduct a legal hunt has fueled the pr ...
Topics: animal welfare, news, politics, United States, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Moby Next Year Whaling commission avoids controversial decisions		27 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:51 PM on 27 Jun 2008 Wrapping up its annual meeting this week, the International Whaling Commission decided to defer decision-making on various controversial issues. The IWC took only one vote at the meeting, deciding to disallow Greenland's request to take a higher quota of humpback whales. It also agreed to research the impact of climate change on cetaceans. But with the commission polarized by fierce disagreement be ...
Topics: Greenland, news, whaling (all these topics)

When the Blubber Hits the Road Hunting season ends with Japan catching fewer whales than planned		14 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 12:54 PM on 14 Apr 2008 Japanese whalers had a quota of 850 minke whales for the just-ended hunting season but are heading home having caught only 551, which the country's Fisheries Agency blames on "sabotage by activists." The militant Sea Shepherd Society had been all up in whalers' biz throughout the season. Anti-whalers were quick to point out that hunters admitted to catching ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Japan, news, whaling (all these topics)

Makah's Mark Three Makah tribe members plead guilty in whale hunt		31 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:29 AM on 31 Mar 2008 Photo: bbum Three members of the Washington state Makah tribe who were charged with killing a gray whale in the fall have pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violating the Marine Mammal Protection Act. In return, prosecutors will recommend probation instead of jail time. The men had originally declined the plea deal because it could have prevented them from participating in legal whale hunting ...
Topics: news, whaling (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: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (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: fishing, oceans, whaling, wildlife (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)

Can't We All Just Get Along? Activist says he was shot in confrontation with whalers		07 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:10 AM on 07 Mar 2008 The captain of the radical anti-whaling Sea Shepherd Conservation Society says he was shot in a clash with Japanese whalers on Friday. Paul Watson says he found a bullet in his Kevlar vest; Japan's fisheries agency disputed the accusation, saying those onboard the whaling ship retaliated with non-lethal flash grenades after activists threw stink bombs of eye-stinging butyric aci ...
Topics: grassroots activism, Japan, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Whaling and Gnashing of Teeth Norway says whale consumption is good for the planet		04 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:53 PM on 04 Mar 2008 Eating whale meat is better for the planet than eating beef, pork, or chicken, according to a comparative carbon-emissions calculation by Norwegian lobbying group the High North Alliance. Says the alliance's Rune Froevik, in what may be a bit of an exaggeration, "Basically it turns out that the best thing you can do for the planet is to eat whale meat compared to other types ...
Topics: ... climate, food, grassroots activism, greenhouse-gas emissions, Greenpeace, Japan, news, Norway, oceans, whaling (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 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)

Whale Played Aussies release gruesome footage of Japanese whale hunt		08 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:30 PM on 08 Feb 2008 There's a new twist in the twisty tale of Japan's off-then-back-on-again whale hunt: the Australian government has released gut-wrenching footage of what it says is a mother and baby minke whale being harpooned and hauled aboard a Japanese ship. An unamused official at Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research denied that the large and small whales were a mother and calf, and warned that the Austr ...
Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Hayden Panettiere cheers on whale campaign Heroes star opens heart, closet to save whales	Sarah van Schagen	30 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Hayden Panettiere. Photo: Paul Morigi/WireImage Heroes star Hayden Panettiere may not be a real cheerleader (she just plays one on TV), but she sure knows how to rile up a crowd. As campaign spokeswoman for Save the Whales Again!, Panettiere has had quite a busy week. Yesterday, she appeared at a news conference with Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) of the House Natural Resources Committee. On Monday, she spoke to the embassies ...
Topics: celebrity, fashion, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Mob Gnarly and the Whalers Protesters converge on Japan's whaling fleet; Aussie court rules Japan hunt illegal		15 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 7:02 AM on 15 Jan 2008 It's been high drama on the high seas the past few days as the unpopular Japanese whaling fleet has been at the heart of legal action and a target of direct-action protest. Earlier this week, Greenpeace successfully tracked down Japan's whaling fleet in Antarctic waters and has been chasing them around, disrupting the hunt. Today, a federal court in Aus ...
Topics: Australia, international politics, Japan, news, whaling, 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)

Doing the Humpty Dance Japan says it won't hunt humpback whales, at least for now		21 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:49 AM on 21 Dec 2007 Under pressure from, well, most of the world to stop targeting humpback whales, Japan has announced it will hold off on its hunt for the imperiled humpback -- at least for now. "Japan has decided not to catch humpback whales for one year or two, but there will be no change in our stance on research whaling," said spokesguy Nobutaka Machimura. The decision was in large par ...
Topics: international politics, International Whaling Commission, Japan, news, politics, 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 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)

Is It Hump Day Already? Japanese whaling fleet to hunt up to 1,035 whales, including 50 humpbacks		19 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 19 Nov 2007 Japan's oft-criticized "scientific" whaling fleet will be extra busy this season as it aims to land up to 1,035 whales in what could be the country's largest whale hunt in modern times. Included in the toll: up to 50 humpback whales, the first time they've been targeted in some 40 years. Humpback whales numbered only about 1,200 in the 1960s, but the popul ...
Topics: Japan, news, politics, whaling, 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)

This Makes Us Blubber Pacific gray whale population may still be severely depleted		11 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:50 PM on 11 Sep 2007 The Pacific gray whale, long held up as an environmental success story, may not have made as impressive a comeback as once thought. Thanks to a widespread ban on commercial whaling, the Pacific gray whale became the first marine mammal to be taken off the endangered species list in 1994. When whales began dying off around 1999, scientists assumed populations were naturally stabili ...
Topics: endangered species, news, oceans, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Whale Meets Its Makah Gray whale killed by Makah tribe members in surprise hunt		10 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 7:04 AM on 10 Sep 2007 Photo: bbum A gray whale was harpooned off the coast of Washington state this weekend in a surprise hunt by members of the Makah tribe. The tribe does have hard-won treaty rights to conduct whale hunts, but this weekend's kill was not sanctioned since the tribe has not yet succeeded in obtaining a necessary waiver to the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. Tribal leaders also appa ...
Topics: news, oceans, United States, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

Because whaling is so last season Iceland announces it will reinstate whaling ban next year	Andrew Sharpless	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Rejoining the 21st century is Iceland, who after lifting its 10-year-old whaling ban just a year ago, announced it will reinstate the ban for the coming season because the whaling market just isn't as lucrative as it used to be. The Iceland announcement marks a victory for whales, though many obstacles remain. Bycatch still threatens the survival of many smaller whale species and sonar disorients whales, which use sound to communicate and to navigate their migrat ...
Topics: fishing, Iceland, whaling, wildlife (all these topics)

The Invisible Hand Drops Its Harpoon Iceland halts whale hunt due to low demand		27 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
The Invisible Hand Drops Its Harpoon Iceland halts whale hunt due to low demand After resuming commercial whaling just under a year ago, Iceland's fisheries minister said recently that his country will not issue new whale-hunting quotas until there's more demand for whale-derived products and until Iceland gets an export license to send whale meat to Japan. "There is no reason to continue commercial whaling if there ...
Topics: business, Iceland, news, whaling (all these topics)

Just Say Noh Forty nations condemn Japan's 'scientific' whale hunt		31 May 2007	Daily Grist
Just Say Noh Forty nations condemn Japan's "scientific" whale hunt The International Whaling Commission has been meeting in Anchorage this week, and as always, Japan is making a splash. Yesterday saw fierce debate over a resolution condemning that country's "scientific hunt," in which it's allowed to kill about 1,000 Antarctic whales. The resolution, sponsored ...
Topics: fishing, international politics, Japan, news, oceans, politics, whaling (all these topics)

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