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Environment News tagged with fish

Row Over Fishermen Shooting Seals
Environment  (tags: seals, fish, fishermen, shooting )

NoEmailsP
- 38 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
A row has broken out in the north of England because fishermen are shooting seals that eat their fish.
18 comments
Global Warming Is Shrinking Sheep and Fish
Environment  (tags: animals, sheep, fish, shrinking, global warming, AnimalWelfare, habitat, protection )

Cher
- 122 days ago - planetsave.com
Two seperate scientific studies have revealed that global warming is leading to significant reductions in the size of sheep and fish species, more evidence that climate change is forcing a huge range of species to adapt to a hotter world.
3 comments
Spare the Fish, Save the Reefs
Environment  (tags: environment, coral reefs, fish, protection, habitat, nature )

Cher
- 152 days ago - wcs.org
As embattled coral reefs cope with rising sea temperatures and increasing storms, scientists point to a powerful ally as key to their protection: fish. Wildlife Conservation Society researchers are calling for bans or restrictions on certain types of fish
6 comments
Sign Petition: Protect Our Oceans and Marine Resources
Environment  (tags: environment, oceans, sea, nature, habitat, pollution, wildlife, whaling, politics, humans, ecosystems, conservation, protection, global, world, marine, fish, dolphins, whales, plankton )

Tom
- 166 days ago - change.org
On June 8th, countries around the globe will celebrate World Oceans Day. This year, the United States should send a powerful signal to the world that we care about ocean conservation and are ready to be a leader within the international community.
29 comments
Sign Petition: Stop Inhumane, Disease Causing Animal Farming
Environment  (tags: animals, suffering, cruelty, death, environment, humans, health, safety, risks, disease, food, illness, money, corruption, business, dishonesty, factory, farming, pig, cow, chicken, fish, water, pollution, meat, steroids, antibiotics, global, warming )

Tom
- 196 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
We are all affected by the pollution from these farms that runs into our waters causing dead zones with no oxygen resulting in dead fish and fish with sores. The waste from these pig, chicken, cow and fish farms are highly toxic and infiltrate our water.
31 comments
Sign Petition: Protect Our Oceans, Coastal Communities and Consumers
Environment  (tags: environment, ocean, fish, farming, Bush, NOAA, gulf of mexico, seafood, aquaculture, congress, nature, protection, habitat, humans, ecosystems, conservation, health, risks, humans, food, habitat, pollution, wildlife )

Tom
- 196 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council approved a devastating plan to permit industrial ocean fish farms in U.S. waters. Advertised as a blueprint for ocean waters nationwide, it's now headed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
41 comments
Great News! Congress Votes 'Yes' to Sweeping Public Lands Protection Act
Environment  (tags: obama, congress, GoodNews, democrats, republicans, government, usa, protection, wildlife, nature, habitat, environment, ecosystems, conservation, rivers, trails, parks, scenic, wilderness, water, fish, landscapes, Omnibus )

Tom
- 240 days ago - ens-newswire.com
Congress just approved a massive public lands bill that protects 200 million acres of wilderness in nine states and 1,000 miles of rivers in the wild and scenic river system. It establishes new national trails, national parks and a new national monument.
14 comments
Drilling the Arctic for Energy: Does Tapping Alaskan Oil to Increase Energy Independence Come at Our Peril?
Environment  (tags: energy, drilling, arctic, alaska, Exxon Valdez, oil, hazard, spills, tankers, saftey, security, alaska, fish, birds, animals, business, ecosystems, destruction, endangered, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, wildlife, protection, environment )

Tom
- 241 days ago - sciam.com
Plans to greatly expand fossil-fuel exploration and retrieval in the Far North have caused environmentalists to urg lawmakers to reinstate a ban on new offshore drilling for oil and gas in the land that extends off of North America's coasts.
4 comments
Valdez Ghost Haunts Exxon With Spill-Prone Ships
Environment  (tags: world, Exxon Valdez, oil, hazard, spills, tankers, saftey, security, alaska, fish, birds, animals, business, ecosystems, destruction, endangered, habitatdestruction, nature, pollution, wildlife, protection, environment )

Tom
- 241 days ago - bloomberg.com
Exxon, the world's largest oil company, has kept using tankers with the "more accident-prone" one hull design even as 151 countries have decided two are better than one for preventing oil spills and pledged to ban single-hull vessels by 2015.
8 comments
Butchered Dolphins, Oceanic Collapse and the Myth of Fish Farms
Environment  (tags: oceans, whales, dolphins, fish, japan, sea, pollution )

Robert
- 373 days ago - thoughtleader.co.za
*Nowhere are dolphins and whales safe, threatened as they are in an ocean 'managed' and mauled by commercial fishing corporations. Their MO - virtuous greed, results in stripped resources, dumped waste contaminated with heavy metals such as mercury ...
17 comments
An Inconvenient Truth About Sharks
Environment  (tags: environment, conservation, endangered-and-protected-species, oceans-and-reefs, fishing-aquaculture, marine-biology, fish, marine-parks, australia )

Tom
- 420 days ago - abc.net.au
A proposal to start a dedicated shark fishery including the waters of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park is an act not dissimilar to allowing the deliberate hunting and removal of hundreds, if not thousands, of lions, leopards and cheetahs from Africa.
3 comments
Fish Virus Could Lead to Major Kills
Environment  (tags: fish, fish virus, fish kill, Ohio, Wisconsin, Lake Michigan, Mississippi River, environment, wildlife )

RC
- 489 days ago - washingtonpost.com
An outbreak of a deadly fish virus, viral hemorrhagic septicemia, has federal & state wildlife officials concerned about the possible spread down the Mississippi River. This is the first time this strain has been detected outside the Great Lakes basin.
28 comments
How to Save 83% of the World's Coral Reef Species
Environment  (tags: environment, nature, green, oceans, marine life, fish, coral, corals, coral reef, coral reefs, wildlife, endangered species, islands, water, fishes, reef, reefs, nature conservancy, science, conservation, the nature conservancy, tnc )

Jonathon
- 541 days ago - nature.org
Coral reefs provide the world with goods and services worth US$375 billion annually, but scientists estimate that 70% of all corals reefs could be lost by 2050. Now a new initiative aims to conserve an astounding 83% of the world's coral species.
6 comments
Ocean Advocates Hopeful of WTO Cut in Fishing Support
Environment  (tags: oceans, Sustainabililty, conservation, fish, fishing, fishery management )

Indian
- 645 days ago - reuters.com
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of action to protect the world's fragile fish stocks are hoping that a recent proposal to drastically limit fishing subsidies will prevail in global trade talks.
10 comments
Great Lakes, Oceans Won't Be Clean Until Global Pesticides Banned
Environment  (tags: pollution, chemicals, waste, fish, water, water source, food source, EPA )

Bryan
- 684 days ago - infoshop.org
Surprise findings: Toxaphene, the pesticide that replaced DDT when it was banned, is present at twice the PCB concentration in Lake Superior trout and gives them 10 times more toxicity. Recently Toxaphene has been removed from fish eating advisories.
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