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Headline	Author	Published	Section
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)

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)

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 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)

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)

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