Ocean Sentry
(By Ian Johnston, The Independent) Tough new regulations are to be introduced to curb the killing of seals by Scottish fish farmers, The Independent on Sunday has learned. The move comes as two headless seals – one heavily pregnant, the other a juvenile – were discovered last weekend on a …
May, 2008
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24 May
Humans are the Danger
(Rob Stewart, The Guardian) Sharks are in serious trouble. Research this week has revealed that more than half the world”s ocean-going sharks face extinction in the near future. I first became aware of their plight in 1999, on an assignment in the Galapagos Islands. Instead of photographing them, I wound …
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22 May
Mystery As 38 Whales Die on Senegalese Beach
(International Herald Tribune) DAKAR, Senegal: The bodies of at least 38 whales have washed up on a Dakar beach and wildlife officials say as many as 100 swam up close to the shore. Villagers living nearby said the whales were spotted late Tuesday night, veering closer and closer to the …
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22 May
Fin Soup Threatens Survival of Ocean Sharks: Study
By Madeline Chambers BERLIN (Reuters) – Overfishing partly caused by booming demand for shark fin soup, a delicacy in some Asian countries, is threatening the existence of 11 kinds of ocean sharks, an international study showed on Thursday. The fish, often seen as ferocious sea predators, suffer from largely unregulated …
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22 May
Blue whale nursery threatened by fish farms
(Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom By Charles Clover) One of the largest nursery grounds of the blue whale is threatened by the expansion of the global salmon farming industry, a prize-winning conservationist warned yesterday. The hitherto unknown feeding and nursery area for hundreds of the world’s largest animals was discovered off Chiloé …
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19 May
Film wins 26 awards but will not be screened in Malta
Times of Malta (Times of Malta, Malta) During the last six months, cinemas all over the world have been premiering a movie that has already won 26 international awards including best environmental film of 2008. This documentary is Sharkwater but regretfully, it will never reach cinemas here in Malta. When …
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19 May
Iceland resumes whaling, ministry says
REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – Iceland”s government said on Monday it would allow 40 minke whales to be hunted, ending a temporary halt to a practice which has angered conservationists. A ministry official told Reuters that Einar Guoffinsson, minister of fisheries, had issued the order. The head of a local whaling association …
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14 May
Companies Linked to Japanese Whaling; Conservationists Call for Action
(Yarmouth Port, MA – 18 December 2007) – In letters released today, Humane Society International, the Environmental Investigation Agency and the International Fund for Animal Welfare urged three Japanese seafood companies and their U.S. subsidiaries to use their influence with the Japanese government to end the imminent slaughter of nearly …
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14 May
Australian Government can stop Japan whaling
(Sydney, Australia – 7 May 2007) – The Australian Government can stop Japan killing any more whales in the Southern Ocean by taking legal action, according to an independent panel of Australia’s leading international law experts, commissioned by IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare – www.ifaw.org ).
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14 May
Norway Starts Whale Hunting Season
The Norwegians murdered their first whale of the season this week-end. They slaughtered a calf. The Norwegian pirate whalers have set a quota of 1,052 whales for 2008. This despite the fact that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature estimates that Minke whale populations are only half of …
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12 May
Spain Goes Ahead Fishing Red Tuna in Mediterranean Sea
The Spanish government will go ahead fishing immature red tuna (below 30 kilo) in the Mediterranean Sea, as General Director of Fishery Resources and Aquaculture, Fernando Curcio spoke out defending the legality to this over-fishing as ‘issue of minor importance’. Spain focuses on the exceeded quotas of France and Italy …
April, 2008
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28 April
Armed Canadian Coast Guard Storms Sea Shepherd Ship and Arrests Crew
(From indymedia.org.uk)- At 0700 Hours (PST) and 1100 Hours Atlantic time the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat was attacked by officers from two Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers the Des Groseilliers and the Sir Wifred Grenfell. Captain Alex Cornelissen informed the boarders that the Farley Mowat is a Dutch …