Norway will not catch enough whales to meet its quota this year, in what environmentalists are claiming is proof that the nation should abandon the activity completely.

A few hundred years ago, the seas teemed with whales and other cetaceans. DNA studies undertaken a few years ago suggested that before the onset of commercial whaling in the 19th century the population of humpback whales, now around 40,000,

Industrial fishing is largely to blame for the rising number of dead whales, dolphins and porpoises washed up on Cornish beaches, scientists have said.

One of the long-established ecological principles is that large animals are less abundant than smaller ones. There are fewer elephants than antelope, which are less numerous than rabbits. Because larger animals need more resources, and ecosystem

<p>A further 12 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins have recently been captured and are waiting in sea pens to be exported to marine parks with major holiday companies doing little to stop this exploitation.</p>

<p>Fred Thorne trapped something different in his lobster pot last week, something he hopes to never catch again. "They're the real devils. They're vicious," said Mr. Thorne of Burnt Islands, the first known lobster fisher to have caught a green crab </p>

Defenders of Wildlife, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), and Ocean Conservancy filed new litigation to force the National Marine Fisheries Service to require ships to slow down in certain areas to avoid fatal collisions with critically

FROM dawn to dusk, from Bondi to Bilgola, whale watchers were out in force yesterday for the annual whale census with 567 humpback sightings. ORRCA president Ron Ling said he was "blown away" by the number of whales spotted, with the first sighting report

The dozen-or-so Libyan tuna boats moored in the French Mediterranean port of Sète are a bitter reminder to French fisherman Denis Biascamano of a wrecked career and an industry gone bad. The boats carry Libyan flags, but it's common knowledge that they

ENVIRONMENT Minister Peter Garrett has come under fire from the opposition and Greenpeace for failing to make a dent in Japan's scientific whaling program at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) annual conference