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• Why We Need to Put the Fish Back Into Fisheries

  
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  Science Daily 19 May 13;May 19, 2013 — Overfishing has reduced fish populations and biodiversity across much of the worlds oceans. In response, fisheries are increasingly reliant on a handful of highly valuable shellfish. However, new research by the University of York shows this approach to be extremely risky.The ...
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• Biosphere conservation: monumental action is critical to avert global environmental crisis

  
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  Human-caused changes to our biosphere—the global total of the worlds ecosystems—are now so great and alarmingly rapid that human lives and societies undoubtedly face epic challenges in the near future as our biosphere deteriorates, planetary boundaries are reached, and tipping points exceeded. We may survive, we ...
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• More than 600 dead sea lions, cormorants, and penguins found on Chile beach, victims of Illegal blast fishing

  
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  By Jordan Greene 16 May 2013 (Santiago Times) – Chilean Navy discovers more than 600 dead animals in Punta de Choros, a small fishing  town north of La Serena. The bodies of sea lions, cormorants and penguins littered a seven mile stretch of beach in Punta de Choros, northern Chile on Sunday. The crime scene ...
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• Irritated Bellow Syndrome: Taiwan fisherman killed by Philippine Coast Guard, Media Feeding Frenzy Ensues

  
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  A couple of herons contemplate eastern Taichung, and are not impressed. Unless youve been living in a cave or a foreign country, its been impossible to miss the unseemly mess over the death of a Taiwanese fisherman at the hands of Philippines Coast Guard sailors. Lets roll that news: ( A Taipei Times report ) A ...
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• Fish piracy costs $10 billion to $23 billion a year: report

  
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  Deborah Zabarenko PlanetArk 9 May 13;Fish piracy - seafood caught illegally, not reported to authorities or outside environmental and catch regulations - represents as much as $10 billion to $23 billion in global losses each year, a non-profit conservation group estimated Wednesday.Because pirated fish is sold on ...
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• Are We Missing the Big Picture in our Ocean Ecosystem?

  
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  Lee Crockett takes a look at the need for our nation to move towards ecosystem based management for US fisheries.
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• Philippines: Tuna movements in Coral Triangle show need for conservation

  
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  Gregg Yan Malaya Business 8 May 13;MINDORO OCCIDENTAL – Satellite tags attached to adult yellowfin tuna show its movements cover a vast expanse of the Coral Triangle and the need to preserve this valuable patch of Earth.The commercially-valuable yellow fin tuna move around Coral Triangle waters, a known tuna nursery ...
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• China vastly under-reports global fish catch – ‘We’re looking at decimation in the next decade’

  
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  By Gwynn Guilford 30 April 2013 (The Atlantic) – China might be cracking down on luxury spending in watches , cars, banquets and really foul liquor . But the market for pricey fish parts continues relatively unabated. US border officials recently busted a ring smuggling bladders of an endangered fish used ...
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• Jellyfish Blooms Due To Overfishing, Research Finds

  
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  It’s a story we’ve written about for the last several years: Jellyfish swarms are becoming more common . For a while, the trend was noted only anecdotally, but last April, scientists from the University of British Columbia examined global data on jellyfish in a systematic fashion and confirmed that bloom of ...
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• Bygone Bycatch: The Overfishing of Billfish

  
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  Introduction to Overfishing The sea is a harsh mistress. For millennia, she has tantalized our kind with the promise of infinite bounty. However, we are just starting to realize the limits of infinity. Despite her immense size, her immeasurable depth, and her unfathomable biodiversity, Amphitrite is not limitless. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Well-Known Personalities Are Posing Naked With Dead Fish

  
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  Fishlove, an organization against overfishing, is an ongoing photographic project that invites well-known personalities across the globe to make a bold stand to stop over-fishing. Fishlove’s website features photographs of naked well-known personalities in provocative poses with dead and extinct bound fish. ...
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• Our wild BC salmon need protection.

  
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  Here’s another notification I recently received from Change.org. This one is very near and dear to my heart because I live in British Columbia, Canada. This is one of the best salmon fishing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• What if companies actually had to compensate society for environmental destruction?

  
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  The environment is a public good. We all share and depend on clean water, a stable atmosphere, and abundant biodiversity for survival, not to mention health and societal well-being. But under our current global economy, industries can often destroy and pollute the environment—degrading public health and ...
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• IWDG expresses concern over dolphin by-catch

  
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  The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) has expressed concern at the possibility of what it describes as a “significant bycatch” of dolphins in Irish waters by foreign fishing vessels. Autopsy results on five of a group of 13 common dolphins that washed up dead in Co. Mayo in late January have confirmed that the ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to eat cod sustainably

  
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  A couple of weeks ago I wrote a piece for the Guardian about the continuing and increasing headache that is eating fish these days. Going several better, the people over at Great British Chefs  have made this brilliant infographic about eating cod. Armed with this, we should all be able to eat cod with a clear ...
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• 7 charged with smuggling bladders of endangered fish to China

  
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  By Elliot Spagat 24 April 2013 SAN DIEGO (AP) – Seven people have been charged with smuggling bladders from an endangered fish in what authorities said Wednesday may be a growing international practice in which the bladders are sold for up to $20,000 each to be used in a highly desired soup. U.S. border ...
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• China looting Africa of its fish

  
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  Just 9% of the millions of tonnes of fish caught by Chinas giant fishing fleet in African and other international waters is officially reported to the UN, say researchers using a new way to estimate the size and value of catches. Fisheries experts have long considered that the catches reported by China to the UNs Food ...
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• The river of plenty: uncovering the secrets of the amazing Mekong

  
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  Home to giant catfish and stingrays, feeding over 60 million people, and with the largest abundance of freshwater fish in the world, the Mekong River, and its numerous tributaries, brings food, culture, and life to much of Southeast Asia. Despite this, little is known about the biodiversity and ecosystems of the ...
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