| 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 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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| Apr 18, 2013 |
Sustainable Seafood: The Good News
(Food and Wine) For anyone concerned about the ethics of eating seafood from our overfished oceans, writer Paul Greenberg offers this piece of advice: Buy American.
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| Apr 15, 2013 |
Scientists Call for Larger Ocean Reserves
(Science Alert) Leading international marine scientists have called for the protection of more, large marine wilderness areas in a bid to shield the world’s dwindling stocks of fish from destruction.
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| Apr 13, 2013 |
State of Alaska Denies Herring Forage Fish Status
(Sit News) Currently Pacific herring are acknowledged as a keystone forage fish species that is responsible for maintaining the health of the marine ecosystem in the waters of California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia (BC). As you cross the maritime boundary between BC and Alaska herring lose their forage fish status and become just another commercially harvested finfish.
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| Apr 12, 2013 |
New Zealand Dialogue on Marine Protection Inspirational for Others in Pacific
(Radio New Zealand) A director for the environmental organisation Pew says other Pacific Island countries are drawing inspiration from the New Zealand model of dialogue over marine conservation.
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| Apr 10, 2013 |
ConocoPhillips Announces it will not Drill Exploratory Wells in US Arctic Waters in 2014
(Washington Post) ConocoPhillips Alaska announced Wednesday it will not drill in Arctic waters off Alaska’s northwest shore in 2014.
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