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ACTION ALERT: Help Protect Oceans From Destructive Fishing Practices!!!!
Environment  (tags: environment, marine animals, oceans, fishing, destructive, habitat )

Simone
- 5 days ago - change.org
Irresponsible fishing practices are endangering fish, ocean habitat and marine wildlife. Massive trawl nets destroy seafloor habitat, while other gears such as longlines, trawls and gillnets indiscriminately capture hundreds of thousands of marine
8 comments
BIODIVERSITY: Dwindling Fish Catch Could Leave a Billion Hungry
Environment  (tags: climate-change, fishing, overfishing, world, globalwarming )

Cal
- 45 days ago - ipsnews.net
Fish catches are expected to decline dramatically in the world's tropical regions because of climate change, but may increase in the north, said a new study published Thursday.
3 comments
Shark Fin Ban Ends Cruel Slaughter
Environment  (tags: animals, water, oceans, shark, fishing, ban )

Katie
- 46 days ago - guardian.co.uk
A ban on shark finning in UK waters is to be introduced by the government, ministers will announce this week. The practice, which involves slicing fins from sharks at sea and dumping their bodies overboard -has been heavily criticised by campaigners.
30 comments
What Is Spanish Trawler Doing Fishing Off the Coast of Somalia?   video
Environment  (tags: water, research, fishing, piracy )

Claudia
- 52 days ago - youtube.com
What is Spanish trawler doing fishing off the coast of Somalia? Piracy began in response to illegal fishing and toxic dumping
12 comments
Arctic Fisheries Get a New Plan -- The Fish Would Approve
Environment  (tags: environment, climatechange, fishing, animals, protection, humans, habitat, ecosystems, CO2emissions, globalwarming )

Cal
- 95 days ago - enn.com
Global Warming is opening up new areas for fishing. We don't know that much about the ecosystems in these areas since they have been under ice until recen
6 comments
Arctic Protections Proposed in Legislation
Environment  (tags: environment, arctic, polar, bears, walrus, wolves, tourism, gas, oil, fishing, climate-change, pollution, nature, habitat, protection, wildlife, politics, science, ecosystems, destruction, conservation, climatechange, animals )

Tom
- 114 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Polar bears are stranded at sea. Walruses are falling victim to wolves and polar bears. Oil and gas development is expanding. And the Arctic seas are being opened to the possibility of tourism, shipping and perhaps even commercial-scale fishing.
7 comments
End CAP Funds for Livestock and Fishing Industry : Instead Promote Using Healthy Plant Based Foods ! TAKE ACTION !
Environment  (tags: environment, animals, AnimalWelfare, protection, livestock, fishing, healthy plant based foods, humans )

Cher
- 182 days ago - animalrights.change.org
An end to CAP funding for livestock and fishing industry, in order to avoid the problems mentioned above and to promote instead the consumption of healthy plant based foods with far less environmental impact, thus leading to a diminished fiscal drag at
8 comments
Venezuela Bans Controversial "Trawl" Fishing
Environment  (tags: Venezuela, socialism, revolution, Sustainabililty, animals, nature, protection, ecosystems, environment, GoodNews, oceans, fishing, fishing trawlers, drag fishing, drift nets )

Simon
- 246 days ago - venezuelanalysis.com
Small-scale Venezuelan fishers rejoiced on Sunday as a Venezuelan government ban on trawling, also known as drag fishing, went into effect, to protect biodiversity & increase production by small fishermen, who have petitioned govts to do this for decades.
14 comments
Robert De Niro's Restaurant Serves Endangered Bluefin Tuna
Environment  (tags: bluefin, tuna, endangered, fishing, ocean, ecosystems, conservation, environment )

Tom
- 429 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Nobu Restaurant chain, visited by stars including Madonna and Kate Winslet, will highlight which dishes include bluefin tuna, which is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature after decades of overfishing.
7 comments
How Overfishing Can Alter An Ocean's Entire Ecosystem
Environment  (tags: overfishing, fish stocks, fishing, oceans, nature, Sustainabililty, humans, research, habitat, environment, ecosystems, conservation, habitatdestruction )

John
- 523 days ago - features.csmonitor.com
In 2000, University of Maine graduate student Amanda Leland began a seemingly straightforward restoration project. She transported 24,000 young sea urchins, which are native to the Gulf of Maine, to an area where overharvesting had caused them to
2 comments
Ocean Advocates Hopeful of WTO Cut in Fishing Support
Environment  (tags: oceans, Sustainabililty, conservation, fish, fishing, fishery management )

Indian
- 649 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
Tell the Administration to Stop Destructive Overfishing and Obey the New Ocean Fishing Law
Environment  (tags: oceans, environment, global warming, overfishing, fishing, fish, animals, abuse )

Catherine
- 736 days ago - ga3.org
Last year Congress passed a new law that requires fishery managers to follow the recommendations of independent scientists on how much fish can be caught on a sustainable basis. In one of the first tests of this new law, under pressure from a few members
7 comments
Three-Quarters of World's Fish Stocks Depleted
Environment  (tags: fish, ocean, depletion, endangered, fishing, over-fishing )

Dani
- 756 days ago - abc.net.au
An environmental report has found three-quarters of the world's fish stocks have been over-exploited, mainly by commercial fishing.
4 comments
Fighting "Poison Fishing" in Jamaica
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, eco-friendly, animals, conservation, habitat, habitat destruction, Sustainabililty, water, wildlife, world, environment, Jamaica, fishing, rivers, pollution, Caribbean, eco-tourism, tourism )

David
- 867 days ago - nature.org
In Jamaica, local communities are struggling with a man-made threat to their way of life -- poison fishing - harvesting fish by polluting the river. Scientists are working with locals to halt the practice and implement sustainable fishing methods.
7 comments
Fla. Officials Try to Shield Coral Reefs
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, coral, coral reefs, Florida, reefs, hatcheries, fishing, endangered, environment, oceans )

Dave
- 894 days ago - apnews.myway.com
Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine. It's not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending. But . . .
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