Ocean Sentry
(From signonsandiego.com) San Diego – Lydick, an insurance broker, joined fellow members of the Surfrider Foundation yesterday morning for its seventh annual “Hold Onto Your Butt” awareness campaign. Most participants waved signs with phrases such as “I Don”t Like To Swim In Butts,” “Fish Don”t Smoke” or “Don”t Trash San …
August, 2008
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10 August
Reuse Shopping Bags, Reduce Garbage
(From recordonline.com)- Once its brief useful life is over, it usually winds up as garbage because it costs more to recycle a plastic bag than to produce a new one. More than 200,000 plastic bags are dumped into landfills every minute; it takes 1,000 years for those pesky bags to …
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10 August
New Fishing Rules Anger Anglers
(From floridatoday.com) Cape Canaveral – Federal law requires new rules on about a dozen grouper and a few snapper species within a year, regulators say, because data show mounting fishing pressure. The regulators, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council, propose to ban fishing for 10 other grouper species from January …
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10 August
Sturgeons Likely to be Endangered in Caspian Sea in 13 Years
(From en.apa.az)- The Iran international scientific research institute determined that if sturgeon poaching continues, there will be no sturgeons in the Caspian Sea after 13 years. Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are conducting monitoring to study the sturgeon stock in the Caspian Sea. Astara (Azerbaijan) – Bender-Torkeman (Iran) part of …
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10 August
Two Women Fight to Save World’s Deepest Lake
(From iht.com) Bolshiye Koty, Russia- The world”s oldest, deepest and biggest freshwater lake is growing warmer, dirtier and more crowded. Baikal has been called the Sacred Sea, the Pearl of Siberia, the Galapagos of Russia. But these pristine waters, well over a kilometer deep (a mile deep) in some places, …
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9 August
Mussel Species Believed Extinct
(From al.com)- Three mussels once found in the Tennessee River, two of them in Alabama, are presumed extinct because they have not been found in more than 25 years. A comprehensive status review conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the last five years looked at data, surveys, …
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9 August
Multinational Fleets Deployed in Battle to Save Cod and Tuna
(From the-news.net)- European Union countries have this week launched joint sea patrols in the fight against over-fishing of endangered species. In its biggest over-fishing campaign yet, it is coordinating the deployment of some 50 patrol boats, 16 aircraft and 30 inspectors to the Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic, to ease the …
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8 August
Hidden, a 3.5 Million Trash Heap Lies in the Ocean
(From abcnews.go.com)- The world”s largest trash dump doesn”t sit on some barren field outside an urban center. It resides thousands of miles from any land — in the Pacific Ocean. Bottle caps, soap bottles, laundry baskets and shards of plastic are just a few things that float in the ocean”s …
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8 August
Sea Lovers Say Coral Is Too Precious To Wear
(From articles.lancasteronline.com)- Sea coral is blessed with wonderful colors, an intricate design and memories of the lapping ocean. It”s no wonder that the worlds of fashion and home decor are in the midst of a love affair with it.Some argue, though, that coral is too precious to wear.
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8 August
Lobster-Poaching Charges
(From nytimes.com)- A Florida Keys commercial fisherman could lose his boat and go to prison if convicted of charges that he illegally poached thousands of spiny lobsters with traps that damaged coral reefs and sea grasses in sensitive marine waters.
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8 August
Dead Fish Floating at Sea
(From thepeninsulaqatar.com)- A large number of dead fish have been seen floating in the sea off Qatar. The high temperature of sea water is believed to have caused the mass death of fish. Cheri and the popular Hamour, among other species, were seen among the dead fishes. The sea water …
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7 August
Minae Pledges to Help Costa Rica’s Coco Island
(From costaricapages.com)- Costa Rica’s Isla del Coco, or Cocos Island, is located 340 miles (550 kilometers) off the country’s Pacific Coast, and is Puntarenas province’s 13th canton. The waters surrounding it are filled with Hammerhead sharks, stingrays, dolphins, and many other marine species. Now, the Minister of Environment and Energy …