Sounds like we’ll have to get whaling nations to do a bit of a cull Continue reading
Tag Archives: fisheries
Parasite responsible for shrimp sex-change problem, says scientists
A gender-bending parasite has been discovered which is believed to be responsible for turning male shrimps and other crustaceans into females. Continue reading
Easing The Collateral Damage Fisheries Inflict on Seabirds
Two recent studies highlight the harm that industrial fisheries are doing to the world’s seabirds, either by overharvesting the birds’ favorite prey or by drowning birds hooked on longlines. Continue reading
Politicians struggle to limit genetically altered fish
The latest move by politicians to limit or ban the sale of genetically modified fish has been stymied. Continue reading
Boom-and-bust salmon catch is booming again
After years of going begging, Northern California is awash in salmon. Charter boats are booked up to two weeks in advance, and anglers claim to be bagging their limits before noon. The smell of gurry and the glimmer of scales are back at San Francisco’s Pier 45, where commercial fishermen unload their catch. Continue reading
Posted in Water rights, Water scarcity
Tagged dams, fisheries, hatchery salmon, hydro power, salmon protection
Study: California must improve salmon, steelhead hatcheries
Most of the salmon caught in California come from hatcheries in the Sacramento Valley, yet it turns out not much is known about these fish even though they are bred by hand. Continue reading
Posted in Water rights, Water scarcity
Tagged dams, fisheries, hatchery salmon, hydro power, salmon protection
Who pays for conservation in the world’s biggest tuna fishery?
The world catches too many tuna. Thanks to our high levels of fishing, some tuna species are under threat. Everyone involved in the fishing industry agrees that fishing effort needs to be reduced. But no one can decide who should bear the burden of cutting back their fishery. This week the Scientific Committee to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meets in Busan, Korea to try once more to reduce over-fishing. Continue reading
Restoring Mangroves May Prove Cheap Way to Cool Climate
“Coastal ecosystems store carbon, conserve biodiversity and help protect local economies such as fishing for a nominal cost“
Improving fisheries is good but carbon dioxide? Give it a break already. With this most wonderful of trace gases more is definitely better. Continue reading
Mosquito pesticide turning up in lobsters
Pesticides used to control mosquitoes have been detected in a locally harvested luxury food — Long Island Sound lobsters. Continue reading
Climate change opens up Arctic fisheries – but should Canada cut bait?
Pangnirtung was once supported by sealing, but after the market for fur fell apart in the 1980s, experts from Greenland were brought here to teach the former sealers to fish through the ice for turbot, a commercially valuable fish with which few Inuit had any experience. Continue reading
Researchers publish results of an iron fertilization experiment
Hmm… so rather than significantly boosting fish food most of this carbon sank and was lost to the biosphere? What a criminal waste. Continue reading
NEGROPONTE: The U.S. will be lost without LOST
America should sign the language we authored Continue reading
Posted in LOST, Sovereignty, UN
Tagged deepwater drilling, extrasovereign taxation, fisheries, global governance, offshore drilling, really stupid idea
RUMSFELD: America’s LOST sovereignty
Treaty undermines U.S. interests Continue reading
Law of the Sea Treaty now dead, DeMint says
Embalm, cremate and bury. Take no chances! Continue reading
Posted in Agenda 21, LOST, Sovereignty, UN
Tagged deepwater drilling, extrasovereign taxation, fisheries, global governance, offshore drilling
Darn global warming! Lobster Glut Slams Prices
Before sunrise last Monday, in a parking lot by the water in Winter Harbor, Maine, a gathering of lobstermen came to a rare consensus: prices were too low to go fishing. Continue reading
Fish return to undammed Elwha River
First hope for salmon and trout restoration in biggest dam-removal project in US history Continue reading
Posted in Clean energy
Tagged dams, energy infrastructure, fisheries, hydro power, salmon protection
As oceans warm and become more acidic, Britain’s seafood menu changes
Wow! Think of the savings on vinegar if the seas actually were becoming acidic! They aren’t though and while the fillets may change with varying ocean currents the UK’s ubiquitous fish & chips will still be fish and chips. Continue reading
Teach an Industry How to Fish and Maybe It Will Survive
Most of the news about the world’s oceans is a litany of gloom: rising water temperatures, acidification, bleached coral reefs, tons of Japanese tsunami trash drifting toward North America’s west coast. So it is worth noting when something good is happening with the seas. Continue reading
More Phytoplankton Under Arctic Sea Ice Than Previously Thought
Single-celled marine organisms that turn sunlight into carbohydrates generate the ‘primary productivity’ of the seas and provide essential food for life forms higher up the food chain, from zooplankton to fish. Continue reading
Greenpeace sabotages super-trawler
I so hope they will be punished as though they were real people, lose their tax exemption status and begin paying the price for their antisocial nitwittery. Not very likely with the airheads posing as judiciary these days, alas. Continue reading
Posted in Eco-terrorism
Tagged anti development, fisheries, hatred of humans, insane greens
