| May 31, 2013 |
Sharks Worth More for Tourism Than in Soup: Study
(Reuters) Sharks swimming free in the oceans may soon become more valuable as tourist attractions than when caught, sliced up and served in soup, a global study showed on Friday.
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| May 29, 2013 |
Promise of the Arctic Conference Points to Opportunities and Risks
(KPLU) The Arctic is getting hotter faster than any part of the globe. Experts predict the region will be free of sea ice during the summer within about 20 years.
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| May 24, 2013 |
An Upstream Journey, Dispatch #4: Steelhead and Pacific Forage Fish
(Orvis News) On a dreary and overcast April afternoon in Portland, I met Paul Shively and Tara Gallagher at a bar on the north side of town for a few local beers and a conversation about the Pacific Fish Conservation Campaign.
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| May 15, 2013 |
World’s Fish Have Been Moving to Cooler Waters for Decades, Study Finds
(Washington Post) Fish and other sea life have been moving toward Earth’s poles in search of cooler waters, part of a worldwide, decades-long migration documented for the first time by a study released Wednesday.
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| May 13, 2013 |
White House Arctic Strategy: What's Next for Oil, Gas Drilling?
(The Christian Science Monitor) For all the energy prospects bandied about concerning the Arctic – including a new White House strategy paper for the region – oil drilling in US Arctic waters has come to a temporary pause.
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| May 09, 2013 |
Arctic Scientists Take On ‘Emerging Research Questions’
(Alaska Public Media) Environmental changes from climate warming are hitting the Arctic harder and faster than anyone predicted. This week, top Arctic scientists have been meeting in Anchorage looking for better ways to investigate and even track the changes and what they could mean.
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| May 09, 2013 |
Fishermen Want Looser Limits as Red Snapper Makes Comeback
(Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel) Over 18 years of running Old Dixie Seafood in Boca Raton, Larry Siemsen has seen supplies of locally caught red snapper dwindle and prices double, thanks to decades of over-fishing and recent federal restrictions to help the popular fish recover.
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| May 04, 2013 |
Despite Gains, More Challenges Ahead for U.S. Fisheries
(Washington Post) Fish stocks off the U.S. coasts, restored to health over the past four decades by cooperation among competing interests and careful management, are threatened anew by warming and increasingly acidic waters, according to a new report and experts who are gathering in Washington this week for a conference on the future of fisheries.
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| Apr 24, 2013 |
New Caledonia Bans Shark Fishing
(Agence France-Presse) The government of the Pacific paradise of New Caledonia said Wednesday it had decided to ban fishing of sharks, which are being decimated to feed growing demand for luxury goods.
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| Apr 22, 2013 |
A Smart Idea: Protect an Ecosystem's Food Source and It Will Thrive
(SustainableBusiness.com) On the west coast, the first-ever Fishery Ecosystem Plan has been unanimously approved, which will protect not only individual fish species, but the forage species they depend on for food off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington.
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