Japan will push for reduced protection of two whale species at an international meeting next month, fisheries officials said on Friday — a move that could open the door to resuming trade in the giant mammals. Full Story: http://www.ledger-enquirer.c
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Story: www.canada.com Transient orcas kill lone minke whale Saltspring Island residents witness attack by killer whales Four members of a transient killer whale pod hunted and killed a lone minke whale in front of about 200 Saltspring Island spectators Tuesday afternoon. It was the first time that scientists had ever witnessed killer whales killing a
) Conservationists fear that sound blasts being fired into the Gulf of California to help map the ocean floor may have caused two whales to beach themselves and die. Full Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/16/tech/main525869.shtml
Iceland said this week it planned to resume whaling, a day after the International Whaling Commission decided to readmit the country as a full member. “We have decided to begin whaling again, but not when we start,” Fisheries Minister Arni Mathiesen
Between 9 October and 15 October there have been 288 dead seals reported bringing the total to 2653 since the beginning of the outbreak. A total of 2294 dead seals have been reported from around the English coast. 75 post-mortem examinations have been carried out, 35 cases have been confirmed as positive for PDV (34
With a UN moratorium in place for the last ten years and a European Union (EU) ban introduced this year, we might have thought that driftnet fishing in Europe a hot campaign issue in the early 1990s was finally over. But in fact, driftnet fishing cont
Keiko the killer whale, star of the “Free Willy” movies, got a new winter home in an ice-free Norwegian fjord Tuesday after a battle between local communities vying for a new tourist attraction.
The government of Canada has announced its intention to create 10 new parks and five new national marine conservation areas over the next five years. It is the most ambitious plan to expand and protect the country’s natural areas in 117 years, since Canad
Handing a victory to whalers, at a special meeting of the International Whaling Commission here today, national delegates voted by a margin of one to let Iceland join the commission. The single vote was that of Iceland itself. Full Story: http://ens
This has been a defining year for Ole Myklebust and his family fishing firm off the west coast of Norway. In July, he sent a small shipment of minke whale meat to Iceland – followed by a second consignment in September. Full Story: http://news