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• Prince of Wales launches fight to save overexploited oceans from overfishing

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk Prince of Wales launches fight to save overexploited oceans from overfishing The Prince of Wales is to launch a major international campaign to halt the destruction of the oceans through overfishing. published date:Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:00:00 GMT
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• New Year’s Resolution 2012: Let’s Gain Weight in the Ocean

  
  Environment Blog — Authority: 117
    Note: This is a guest post from Lee Crockett,  Director of Federal Fisheries Policy at the Pew Environment Group and is the first in a new blog series: The Bottom Line. Thanks for following along with my “Overfishing 101” series. As I mentioned in my last post, I’m kicking off 2012 with a new series, “The ...
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• The Calamari Wars

  
  Kitchen Voyage — Authority: 102
  Falklands Island wreck ship After  already 30 years the Falklands waters are still rough, three decades have passed from the war British – Argentina conflict that has now come back to the first page of the diplomatic agendas of those two countries and commercial interested allies since a year ago was ...
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• Manta Rays Endangered by Sudden Demand from Chinese Medicine

  
  Extinction Countdown — Authority: 98
  Demand for the gills of manta and mobula rays has risen dramatically in the past 10 years for use in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), even though they were not historically used for this purpose, a team of researchers from the conservation organizations Shark Savers and WildAid has discovered. “We first came ...
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• Malaysia: Switch to cage farmed fish - eco-friendly and just as tasty

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 504
  More hoteliers and restaurant operators obtain their supplies from fish breeders to support efforts to protect marine lifePhuah Ken Lin New Straits Times 15 Jan 12;CAGE fish farming has received overwhelming support from hoteliers, who source sustainably harvested fish directly from fish breeders in line with the ...
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• US Becomes First Country To Limit Catch Sizes For All Fish

  
  THE9BILLION — Authority: 492
  In a move that shockingly hasn’t divided party lines further, the U.S. federal government has implemented a rule to attempt to prevent overfishing  in seas surrounding the country. The policy was originally initiated under George W. Bush, and was finalized by president Obama. According to Joshua Reichert, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cute animal picture of the day: pygmy killer whale saved after stranding

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  On Tuesday a female pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) was found stranded on Tanjung Aru beach, in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. After being moved to a swimming enclosure at a local resort for recuperation, the whale was released back into the wild with aid from the Sabah Wildlife ...
  2 weeks ago

• Get marine conservation into the national political conversation with Americans Elect!

  
  Southern Fried Science — Authority: 107
  In response to the partisan gridlock in Washington DC, a group called Americans Elect hopes to “open up the political process”. This organization, founded by heavy hitters from both parties, is using the internet to allow anyone registered to vote in the United States, regardless of political affiliation, to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bycatch-reducing fish trap wins $20,000

  
  Conservation news — Authority: 120
  An innovative fish trap that allows small non-target fish to escape won a new content by RARE Conservation and National Geographic to fund solutions to overfishing. Developed through studies in Curaçao and Kenya with the Wildlife Conservation Society, the trap has gaps for juvenile fish to swim out of reportedly ...
  2 weeks ago

• Success! US Fishing Becomes More Sustainable

  
  Environment Blog — Authority: 117
  Responding in part to the strength of a wildly popular Care2 petition, the US government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association implemented restrictions to commercial and recreational fishing throughout the US, setting fishing limits for every species of fish it oversees. The NOAA regulates the fishing of ...
  2 weeks ago

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