Ocean Sentry
(From afp.google.com) Brussels- The European Commission called on Monday for cod fishing in the North East Atlantic to be cut by a quarter next year and urged a targeted ban on fishing cod, haddock and whiting off the western coast of Scotland. The European Union”s executive arm said that the …
November, 2008
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9 November
Partnering to Save Puget Sound
(From kitsapsun.com)- Puget Sound is sick and orca whales are dying. That gloomy news — and you”ve heard it before — was reaffirmed last week by the Puget Sound Partnership, which just released its long-awaited draft Action Agenda for Puget Sound. In recent months, Puget Sound”s orca population has dropped …
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8 November
Sea Shepherd Heads for Antarctic Battle With Japanese Whalers
(From ens-newswire.com) Friday Harbour, Washington- The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is heading to the Southern Ocean in December for its fifth year defending whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary against the harpoons of the Japanese whaling fleet, Captain Paul Watson has announced. Sea Shepherd”s flagship vessel, the Steve Irwin, is …
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8 November
Overfishing threatens European bluefin tuna
(From sciencedaily.com) – The species in the Mediterranean Sea and northeast Atlantic is caught by fishermen from many countries, particularly France, Spain and Italy. But there are fewer tuna left in the sea, and those that are left are younger and smaller. In 2006, the organisation that manages bluefin tuna …
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7 November
Concerns over dugongs and turtles
(From caboolture-shire-herald.whereilive.com.au) Pumicestone Passage, Australia- Concerns were raised at last week’s meeting of the Bribie Island Environmental Protection Association (BIEPA) over local marine life. Ian Bell, president of BIEPA, said a recent survey of the dugong population in Pumicestone Passage put their number at about 10.
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6 November
Paul Watson Q&A
(From plentymag.com)- The founder of the Sea Shepard Conservation Society and co-founder of Greenpeace talks about saving whales, sinking ships, and the new documentary series Whale Wars, premiering tomorrow on Animal Planet. Paul Watson has been one of the most important activists in the environmental movement for more than 30 …
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6 November
Steve Irwin had can-opener plan to take on whalers
(From news.com.au)- Steve Irwin wanted to design a huge can-opener to take on Japanese whaling boats in a bid to save the humpbacks, his widow Terri Irwin said. He even talked of putting an ice-breaker on his own Croc One research boat. Terri Irwin said if her husband was alive …
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5 November
Monofilament fishing line a danger to Tampa Bay’s wildlife
(From tampa.creativeloafing.com) – Once Ann Hodgson brushes aside the leaves, the little white body isn”t hard to see. There, hanging from a mangrove branch, is the dried-out, desiccated body of a snowy egret. Wrapped around its neck is a thin piece of fishing line. “It apparently just hung to death,” …
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4 November
Eastern Pacific tuna hang in the balance
(From tradingmarkets.com) – The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC), the international body charged with the conservation and management of tuna and associated species in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, will meet in San Diego from Nov. 2-7 to consider conservation measures for vulnerable tuna populations. Whether this 16-nation Commission will …
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3 November
Farley Mowat’s new memoir may be his ‘last hurrah’
(From ctv.ca) – For Farley Mowat, writing is like breathing. The 87-year-old icon of Canadian literature has been going strong for 50 years, writing dozens of books, both fiction and non-fiction, and articles, as well as living a life of activism and advocacy for the natural world. But though Mowat …
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2 November
Mexico City’s ‘water monster’ nears extinction
(From ap.google.com)- The axolotl, also known as the “water monster” and the “Mexican walking fish,” was a key part of Aztec legend and diet. Against all odds, it survived until now amid Mexico City”s urban sprawl in the polluted canals of Lake Xochimilco, now a Venice-style destination for revelers poled …
October, 2008
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31 October
November 1st is Vegan Day
(From greenmuze.com) – Right on the heels of Halloween comes International Vegan Day (November 1st). A day when we need to ask ourselves is there anything scarier than a factory farm? Perhaps the pus in your milk? Hormones in your meat? Or is it the growing deforestation to produce the …