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An English coast makeover and a cephalopod celebration This week in ocean news	Andrew Sharpless	12 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Some 1,700 acres of English coast will be transformed from farmland to a saltwater marsh at a cost of Ł12 million (about $24.4 million) ...... researchers tagged and released bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic in an attempt to track the species' perilous decline ...... a Silicon Valley company is developing a way to eliminate excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by consuming it during the production of cement, a process known as 'carbon sequestering' ...... r ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

You Gotta Fight for the Right's Right to Party Right whales get safe haven off east coast of Canada, baby orcas high in PBDEs		11 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 12:36 PM on 11 Oct 2007 The International Maritime Organization has approved a proposal to designate a 695-square-mile zone off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, an official Area to Be Avoided, hoping to lower the risk of ship collisions with endangered right whales that tend to congregate there from June through December. However, avoiding the zone is voluntary ...
Topics: Canada, news, oceans, Washington, wildlife (all these topics)

Better late than never for bluefins European Commission springs to action	Andrew Sharpless	09 Oct 2007	Gristmill
For bluefin tuna to have any chance of survival, we've got to make sure proper legislation is in place to protect them and, more importantly, that it's enforced adequately and effectively. With that in mind, it's a welcome sight to see the European Commission threatening countries like Italy and France with legal action for failing to adhere to fishing quotas and not accurately reporting catches. The Commission's decision, though welcome, is long overdue ...
Topics: wildlife, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

This week in ocean news Walruses, whales and ... wave farms?	Andrew Sharpless	05 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Illegal acts pervaded the seas, waves were promoted as renewable energy, and Brooklyn got a new resident in a busy week for the oceans. This week in ocean news ... ... The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation voted to immediately reduce cod bycatch by 40 percent off Canada's eastern coast at its annual meeting ... ... nine Pacific nations concluded Operation Big Eye, a 10-day, $15 million sting on illegal fishing boats. Patrols boarded 38 vessels ... ... ...
Topics: wildlife, fishing, oceans (all these topics)

The Thin Bluefin Line Bluefin tuna population in Mediterranean declining, sushi blamed		02 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 6:16 AM on 02 Oct 2007 The population of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea is plummeting and could be seeing the start of a collapse, warn experts from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna and the World Wildlife Fund. High-end sushi restaurants in Japan fuel demand for premium catches of the fish, which can net some $15,000 each for the biggest and best. Demand, as ...
Topics: fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

This week in ocean news European fisheries 'poor,' island nation Palau rich in corals	Andrew Sharpless	29 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Stakes in the seas are high, but in at least one case, an interest in ocean health can lead to cooperation between unlikely teammates ... ... the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution held an international conference on the possibility of mitigating global warming by seeding the ocean with iron, a controversial procedure which would theoretically boost phytoplankton populations ... ... meanwhile, the scientist behind the theory that the e ...
Topics: oceans, fishing, wildlife, climate (all these topics)

The sea turtle hurdle New study shows turtle populations on the decline	Andrew Sharpless	27 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Loggerhead sea turtle nesting subpopulations in the North Atlantic are on the decline, according to a new study released by the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The study, a five-year status review for loggerhead sea turtles required by the Endangered Species Act, confirms what Oceana has been telling the federal government all along. If there is to be any real chance for restoring sea turtle populations, the feder ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

It's not hot in here, it's just global warming Icy creature populations to deplete as temperatures rise	Andrew Sharpless	25 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Reports are all over the headlines recently of creatures, particularly Arctic and Antarctic marine creatures, being threatened by extinction because the Earth is warming too fast for them or their icy environments to be able to sustain themselves. A colony of Antarctic penguins, for one, could be extinct in as little as eight years, according to one researcher who's been documenting their population since the mid-1970s. Upward of two-thirds of the Arctic polar ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

So Much for Slow and Steady Loggerhead turtle populations declining		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:59 AM on 24 Sep 2007 Loggerhead turtle populations rose in the 1990s but are now falling again, according to a recent federal review. Thanks, commercial fishing! source: Associated Press From the Archives We're Just Going Through a Phaseout. Faster phaseout of ozone-damaging chemicals agreed to by 191 nations. The Long, Hot Summit. U.N. climate summit kicks off in New York; Bush preps for ...
Topics: fishing, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Illegal sea slugs and undersea webcams This week in ocean news	Andrew Sharpless	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
the European Union closed the bluefin tuna fishing season in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, calling the stocks 'exhausted' ... a developer proposed dredging up 2.6 million cubic yards of sand from the ocean floor in order to build an artificial beach in Nantucket. The developer will replace the 105 acres of seabed habitat with 28,000 concrete railroad ties over 60 acres ... A New York coastal manager told the state government that its 3,200 miles o ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, water pollution, wildlife (all these topics)

Boiling lakes and misguided supermodels This week in ocean news	Andrew Sharpless	14 Sep 2007	Gristmill
the U.S. Geological Survey announced that the polar bear population could plummet to one-third of its current level by mid-century because Arctic ice is receding faster than predicted ... a new 350-foot super-ferry designed to go 40 mph between Hawaiian islands concerned scientists, who thought it would collide with whales and dolphins despite new cetacean-avoiding technology ... new DNA studies sugg ...
Topics: endangered species, fishing, oceans, wildlife (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)

The week in ocean news A round-up of top ocean stories	Andrew Sharpless	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
A Manhattan-sized iceberg that had broken off a Canadian island came to a rest in a dead-end Arctic Ocean channel, much to the relief of cargo ships and oil rigs, which may have been threatened by the two-billion-ton berg. A family out sailing in Massachusetts spied a mola mola, a bony sun ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, 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)

Everyone loves a happy ending One lucky sea turtle released back into the wild	Andrew Sharpless	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Four hooks in the throat and belly, three hooks embedded in the skin, two feet of fishing line in the stomach -- one happy ending for a lucky loggerhead sea turtle. After months of rehabilitation, rescuers in Florida finally released a female sea turtle, estimated between 40 and 50 years of age. She took off quickly, according to witnesses, hopefully never to again to be so hooked and entangled. That's an optimistic point of view. Trouble is all the commercia ...
Topics: fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Play It Again, Uncle Sam Appeals court overturns ruling, allows Navy to test underwater sonar		04 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 4:23 PM on 04 Sep 2007 It's the controversy that keeps on controversing: The U.S. Navy wants to test underwater mid-frequency sonar. Marine advocates say such testing effs up whales and other marine mammals. Repeat. (Grist has been writing about this issue since 1999, and we have never reused a headline. Thank you.) Anyhoodle, here we go again: last month, a federal judge ordered the Navy to ...
Topics: Department of Defense, litigation, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Dolphins in danger Viral epidemic hits Mediterranean	Andrew Sharpless	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Striped dolphins in the Spanish Mediterranean are under attack from a virus similar to measles that could kill roughly 75,000 of the creatures before the disease loses steam. Authorities confirmed the disease, Morbillivirus, was also responsible for a plague that killed hundreds of thousands of dolphins in the early 1990s and also recently affected the Canary Island right whale population. This is definitely not the year for dolphins -- perhaps you remember t ...
Topics: oceans, Spain, wildlife (all these topics)

Puffin rescue Save the funny-looking seabirds!	JMG	27 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Saving baby seabirds -- awww.
Topics: biodiversity, cutesy, Iceland, news, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Tagging along Researchers track large marine predators across the globe	Katy Balatero	22 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Get This Widget!TOPP.org I spent the spring and summer of 2002 studying at Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, Calif. -- splashing around in tide pools, diving in kelp forests, and wading through mud in Elkhorn Slough. One of the highlights of my time there was helping Dr. Barbara Block and Dr. Dan Costa experiment with placing satellite tags on elephant seals. These seals can dive as deep as 1700 ft, spending up to 30 minutes underwater, so they were great te ...
Topics: oceans, scientific research, wildlife (all these topics)

How sea slugs fall in love Romantic underwater secrets revealed	Roz Cummins	17 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I came across this nugget of information when looking for something else, but thought it was worth sharing: Scott Cummins and his colleagues at The University of Queensland have uncovered a potent mix of chemicals which acts like a cross between Chanel No 5 and Viagra -- but only if you are a sea slug.
Topics: oceans, sex, wildlife (all these topics)

Protect our sharks, protect our oceans Sharks vs. humans	Andrew Sharpless	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Humans kill something like 100 million sharks annually. More humans are killed annually by dogs and by falling coconuts than are killed by sharks. At such levels, humanity will certainly survive its encounter with dogs and coconuts. The same cannot be confidently said of sharks and people. The U.S. Shark Finning Prohibition Act is, unfortunately, another law whose name is misleading. The law carries a loophole that makes enforcement difficult. Sharks are al ...
Topics: legislation, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast		07 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Flo Nays Federal judge halts Navy sonar exercises off California coast A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Navy to stop using mid-frequency active sonar in exercises off the Southern California coast through 2009. Noting that the Navy's own evaluation says the sonar exercises could disrupt marine mammal behavior in as many as 170,000 instances, Judge Florence-Marie Cooper fou ...
Topics: California, Department of Defense, litigation, news, NRDC, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

News bite: Shark Week on Discovery Channel Get the facts, dispel the myths	Andrew Sharpless	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Did you know you're more likely to die from a falling coconut than a shark bite? It's true. Sharks kill an average of five people annually, which is unfortunate to say the least. But when you think about the tens of millions of sharks that are killed each year for their fins, meat, liver oil, and hides, it's easy to see people are a bigger threat to sharks than sharks are to people. All this week the Discovery Channel will broadcast special programming a ...
Topics: oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Right whale, wrong move US gov't siding with foreign shipping companies on protections	Erik Hoffner	20 Jul 2007	Gristmill
The Bush administration is holding up new regs approved a year ago that'd make ships go more slowly in order to protect North Atlantic right whales. (The White House Council of Economic Advisors is now reviewing causes of right whale deaths, a task already done by marine experts.)Not a big surprise. Saddest part is that it's doing so, it seems, at the request of foreign shipping companies, who don't care about the U.S.' endangered species or laws regarding them. And wh ...
Topics: endangered species, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

Ranger crew encounters jellyfish swarm Overfishing, pollution contribute to exponential rise	Andrew Sharpless	11 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Oceana divers documenting the state of ecological communities in Cabrera Marine Park along the Mediterranean Coast encountered swarms of jellyfish, with numbers in the thousands, 30 miles south of the area. On a seamount some 130 meters from the surface, Oceana's unmanned submarine robot revealed especially high concentrations of these jellies that have wreaked havoc along the Mediterranean in years past. Oceana is working to have the area added to the national p ...
Topics: biodiversity, fishing, oceans, wildlife (all these topics)

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