Illegal fishing has devastated Europe’s stocks of the highly prized bluefin tuna and threatens the species’ survival in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, environmental campaign group WWF said on Wednesday.
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Europe plans to change tack in the way it tries to curb overfishing and boost numbers of species such as cod, depleted after years of quota-busting by EU fleets, the European Commission said on Wednesday.
Anchovy fishing will be banned in the Bay of Biscay until the end of the year to preserve stocks, the European Commission said on Monday. Planet Ark
The Norwegian and Icelandic prime ministers welcomed on Monday a recommendation by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) to relax a ban on commercial whaling.
The Pentagon on Friday exempted the Navy for six months from a law protecting whales and other marine mammals, a move that may allow planned naval exercises using military sonar to proceed despite a lawsuit.
The IWDG launched their new policy document – addressing commercial fishing – this week at Fish Ireland 2006 in Killybegs, Co Donegal. Commercial fishing is the human activity, which has one of the largest impacts on the marine environment and on those creatures that live therein. The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG), with our
Zoologists have developed a plan to save the Yangtze River dolphin, probably the world’s most endangered mammal, from extinction. BBC
Things have been a bit quiet around here for some time. Ok, Harbour Porpoise are still on the scene (although even these tend to head off presumably to birthing/breeding grounds through spring and early summer) but lovely as they are you can only get excited so much by them. It was getting to the point
Oil exploration poses threat to Inupiat whaling traditions Planet Ark
Ten Greenpeace activists were arrested in St. Kitts and Nevis on Tuesday after they tried to plant cardboard whale tails on a beach to protest the slaughter of whales while an international whaling group was meeting.