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Animals News tagged with fishing

'Hypocritical' EU Gives EUR34.5m to Fleets Fishing Tuna to Extinction
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, tuna, fishing, extinction, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 21 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The European Union has given out tens of millions of euros to subsidise the Mediterranean tuna fishing fleets despite warnings from scientists that overfishing is pushing the species close to extinction. Between 2000 and 2008 a total of EUR34.5 million
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80 Year-Old Bookkeeping Error Causes First Species to Be Fished to Extinction
Animals  (tags: Aniaml, Fish, Fishing, Species, Extinction )

Katie
- 41 days ago - treehugger.com
Everyone has no doubt heard about how fisheries around the world are in grave danger of being fished into oblivion. Countless species are currently threatened by overfishing, and environmentalists work fiercely to prevent victims like sharks and tuna.....
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Student Commits Horrific Case of Animal Abuse in Logan, OH
Animals  (tags: horrific cruelty, savage young scum, tortured, disembowelled cat, fishing, animal abuser, student )

Simone
- 49 days ago - examiner.com
This story is being shared with readers even though the victim in this case was a cat. Prosecutors are only able to charge Bryan Able, 18, with a misdemeanor for animal abuse. However, this Examiner believes that this story should be shared with absolute
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Here's How It's Done, Kids: Mother Bear Catches Two Fish at a Time in Hunting Lesson for Hungry Cubs
Animals  (tags: animals, grizzlies, fishing, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 61 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
This bear appears to have bitten off more than she can chew after catching two fish in her mouth at the same time.
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Prize Winning New Fishing System to Save Thousands of Seabirds
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, seabirds, protection, bycatch, fishing, environment, wildlife )

Cher
- 100 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
A team of Australian inventors has been awarded the $30,000 grand prize in the International WWF Smart Gear Competition for a fishing gear innovation that could save thousands of seabirds from dying accidentally on long-lines each year.
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First Global Illegal Fishing Treaty Agreed: UN
Animals  (tags: animals, GoodNews, fishing, protection )

Maria
- 118 days ago - news.yahoo.com
A group of 91 countries have agreed on a treaty that will block ships involved in illegal fishing from entering signatory ports and thus help prevent the fish going to market, the UN said on Tuesday.
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YouTube - Amazing Bird Fishes Like A Human   video
Animals  (tags: green herons, fishing, clever stuff, wildanimals, interesting )

Elderberr
- 127 days ago - youtube.com
This video has stunned scientists around the world as this bird thinks critically just like a human to catch fish. Give a fish a piece of bread and it will won't be hungry for a day but teach it to fish...well you get it.
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Scales of Injustice: Fish Feel Pain, Too
Animals  (tags: animals, fish, fishing, cruelty, AnimalWelfare, environment, protection, suffering )

Cher
- 133 days ago - all-creatures.org
WHAT bugs me is fishermen who claim they fish because it's a ''relaxing'' pastime.
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Shark Attack `Very Unusual,' Ranger Says - South Miami-Dade
Animals  (tags: sharks, behaviors, oddity, fishing, bite, miami, biscayne park )

Raffi
- 156 days ago - miamiherald.com
Carmen Dominguez was swimming next to a fishing boat when she was attacked in the park. Don't swim next to fishing boats because sharks can get scared. More than three weeks after a 43-year-old woman was bitten in the leg by a nurse shark at Biscayne
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The Fight's Heating Up to Save Your Red Snapper ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, red snappers, fishing, recovery plan, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 160 days ago - animalrights.change.org
In March, many of you helped persuade regional fishery managers to temporarily halt all red snapper fishing for up to a year while a long-term recovery plan is considered. Now federal officials must give the final nod to the temporary moratorium.
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Faux Sharks Fuel Conservation Efforts-Taxidermist Supports Shark Conservation
Animals  (tags: sharks, fishing, charter, Florida, taxidermy, Florida, fishermen, protection, conservation, environment )

Raffi
- 161 days ago - justnews.com
For decades, charters up and down South Florida's coast took sport fishermen out for the ultimate catch: sharks. The fishing craze was fueled by movies like "Jaws" and magnified by large-scale fishing competitions. But now, a Fort Lauderdale
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Feds Ban Krill Fishing to Save It for the Whales
Animals  (tags: animals, krill, fishing, ban, whales, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 167 days ago - komonews.com
No one fishes for krill off the West Coast, and federal fisheries managers want to keep it that way so the tiny shrimp-like creatures remain as plentiful as possible as food for whales, salmon, and seabirds.
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Save Sea Turtles From Reckless Fishing Practices ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, turtles, fishing, killing, death, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 182 days ago - change.org
It's a cruel way to die... and it's happening to some of the planet's most ancient and endangered creatures. Snagged by razor sharp hooks on fishing lines that span anywhere from four to nine nautical miles, endangered sea turtles are drowning and dying
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Six Meetings - No Decisions. Classic Committee Meetings as Tuna Stocks Are Decimated
Animals  (tags: animals, tuna, fishing, AnimalWelfare, environment, killing, protection, extinction, wildlife )

Cher
- 195 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) is the intergovernmental management authority comprised of 16 member countries with the mandate to regulate fishing fleets to avoid overexploitation of tuna in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean.
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Stop Shark Fishing on the Great Barrier Reef ! TAKE ACTION !
Animals  (tags: animals, sharks, fishing, killing, AnimalWelfare, environment, habitat, protection, wildlife, wildanimals )

Cher
- 209 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Time is running out to save our World Heritage Sharks. The Queensland Government has recently committed to allowing 600 tonnes of sharks (over 70,000 sharks) to be killed this year in Queensland.
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