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• Seafood the big winner at SA Food Awards

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  Black lipped abalone and farmed Southern Bluefin Tuna from ‘Australia’s Seafood Frontier’, the Eyre Peninsula were the major winners at the recent Premier’s Food Awards in South Australia.Dover Fisheries and Clean Seas Limited were dual winners scooping two awards each, highlighting that seafood from South ...
  7 hours ago

• New public relations: Beating back bad press with Google AdWords

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 734
  The New York Times reported on its front page in September that hoki, an unattractive sea creature best known as the primary ingredient in the Filet-O-Fish , is at risk of depletion. Naturally, the New Zealand companies that farm hoki by the metric ton weren’t pleased by the article, which pointed to “ominous ...
  16 hours ago

• Smuggling Fish from Yemen, 20% of Annual Production

  
  Armies of Liberation — Authority: 503
  For years, the fishing statistics never added up for me, and finally we have an official recognition of the issue. The figure is 40,000 tons annually or about 20% of total production, but its a rough number. That the statement was made by the Fisheries Minister and published by SABA is encouraging but only to the ...
  18 hours ago

• Petition against the EU’s exploitation of occupied Western Saharan waters

  
  SAND & DUST — Authority: 91
  I’d like to suggest that people sign the following petition against the illegal exploitation of occupied Western Saharan waters by EU fishing vessels. This has been made possible by the EU’s granting of “Advanced Status” to Morocco, despite the latter’s continuing occupation of much of Western Sahara and the ...
  19 hours ago

• Susceptibility of sharks, rays and chimaeras to global extinction

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 113
  © R. Harcourt Quite some time ago my colleague and (now former) postdoctoral fellow, Iain Field , and I sat down to examine in gory detail the extent of the threat to global populations of sharks, rays and chimaeras (chondrichthyans). I don’t think we quite realised the mammoth task we had set ourselves. ...
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• VIDEO: Rare “giant” stingray captured on video for first time

  
  The Conservation Report — Authority: 486
  The smalleye stingray ( Dasyatis microps ), a giant of the sea, has been filmed for the first time. According to BBC, “ The elusive creature, first discovered in 1908, has only ever been seen alive off Tofo in southern Mozambique .” This rarely observed stingray has been “ collected from the estuary of the ...
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• Oceans Sans Frontier

  
  Sea Notes — Authority: 113
  In the U.S., President Obamas Ocean Policy Task Force is charged with recommending a way forward to create a National Ocean Agenda and Policy for U.S. oceans. Much needed and long awaited. You can support this process on our website...
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• £52k award for Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network – and a job

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Well deserved support has come to the energetic Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN). It has been awarded a funding package worth £52,000 to help support its initiative in gathering data on species of sharks, skates and rays found in Scottish waters. Many of these species are now endangered. The funding ...
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• Environmental groups await inquiry into declining Pacific salmon

  
  thegreenpages - British Columbia — Authority: 409
  Vancouver - A federal judicial inquiry into declining Pacific salmon is an important step towards rebuilding wild salmon stocks and the economies that depend on them, according to the David Suzuki Foundation . "Salmon are major indicators of the health of our environment and critical components of the ecosystems we ...
  2 days ago

• WWF Argues for a Temporary Fishing Ban for the Beleaguered Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF), the global conservation organization, is urging countries meeting in Brazil this week to agree urgently on a temporary fishing ban for the beleaguered Atlantic bluefin tuna, as an essential measure to avoid imminent stock collapse. The International Commission for the Conservation ...
  2 days ago

• Worldwide Decline in Fisheries

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 602
  This [unedited] guest post is by a student in my EEP100 class ( background post ). Please praise/critique/comment on its economic quality and importance to you. Ben Rego says: Recently in the San Francisco chronicle I read a story about how more and more dead seals were turning up on beaches around the bay. ...
  2 days ago

• Obama ate the fish who knew Lincoln

  
  Not My Tribe — Authority: 486
  Fishermen have always called it the Slimehead fish. It’s sorta-scientific name is Darwin’s Slimehead . But when bottom-of-the-barrel scraping began for the ocean’s remaining fisheries, fishmongers created a market for the never-though-palatable deep bottom feeder by renaming it the Orange Roughy .   That much ...
  2 days ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• Why are the Chinese intent on damming the Mekong?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 602
  This [unedited] guest post is by a student in my EEP100 class ( background post ). Please praise/critique/comment on its economic quality and importance to you. Kim Thai says: Simple. The answer to any economics question is that they want to profit. The Chinese, who already have political and economic power ...
  4 days ago

• Agriculture, food & climate change

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 134
  Lessons from the Green Revolution ; Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ; Agriculture & Food ; (International Food Policy Research Institute) Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen ; Global Treaty on Climate Change ; Climate Change (that is, Global Warming) and ...
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• NOAA Commissions New Fisheries Survey Ship

  
  gCaptain.com — Authority: 499
  Senior NOAA officials today commissioned NOAA Ship Pisces , the nation’s most advanced fisheries research vessel, and dedicated a new fisheries laboratory in Pascagoula, Miss. The vessel and the NOAA laboratory will support fisheries research in the Gulf of Mexico, southeastern United States and the Caribbean. ...
  4 days ago

• SAMS is partner in new £75m Marine Alliance for Science & Technology for Scotland

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Today (5th November) saw the launch of a new body bringing together 8 Scottish Universities in research and training in marine sciences.The Marine Alliance for Science & Technology for Scotland has been established after the granting of an additional £17.4 million by the Scottish Funding Council, bringing the ...
  5 days ago

• $1bn Illegal Fishing Industry Could Destroy Africa’s Fish Stocks ‘within Years’

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The U.K. International Development Minister Gareth Thomas has issued a stark warning that, if action isn’t taken immediately, illegal fishing could have a devastating impact on fish stocks off the coast of Africa. Experts say unless much tighter regulation and policing are introduced, the over-fishing will also ...
  5 days ago

• Smart hook – smart economics

  
  frogblog — Authority: 568
  Continuing the marine theme for today, I was pleased to see an article in a recent edition of Seafood NZ magazine about a clever invention to prevent seabirds like albatross getting hooked on tuna long-lines. It’s called a Smart Hook. Birds (and turtles) see a baited hook being launched off the back of a boat as an ...
  5 days ago

• Night and Day: 24-hour dining on the South Side

  
  The Chicago Weekly — Authority: 129
  (Ellis Calvin) This time last year, the Weekly came out with its first guide to 24-hour restaurants on the South Side . In that issue, we covered classics like Izola’s, Depot, and the original Maxwell Street Polish stands. We’re back this year with a few more selections from the South Side nightscape. From ...
  6 days ago

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