Stellwagen Bank, the submerged plateau that swarms with sea life about 30 miles east of Boston, is a national marine sanctuary in name only. Stronger federal leadership and stauncher efforts for ocean conservancy are needed to protect these prolific water
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A special research project is beginning off the west Wales coast to help gain greater conservation protection for whales, dolphins and porpoises in Cardigan Bay. Full Story
Authorities and experts have been pondering for weeks, but still no final decision has been taken about where celebrity killer whale Keiko will be spending the frosty winter months in Norway. Full Story: http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/artic
Australia plans to create the world’s largest fully protected marine reserve, announcing on Wednesday it had mapped out a giant park free of fishing and exploitation in its remote, sub-Antarctic waters.
Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV) has been found in a harbour seal on the Aran Islands. The disease was confirmed in a sample sent by UCG to the Dept. of Agriculture in Northern Ireland. PDV has now killed over 15,000 seals on mainland Europe and over 2,000 in the UK. It represents a major threat to
Conservation group WWF International slammed the European Union yesterday for buying fishing rights from poor African countries like Angola, saying it was depleting stocks vital to poor coastal communities.
The NSW charter boat industry has reacted angrily to a proposal by the State Government to slap a tax on whale watchers as part of a licensing and environmental crackdown.
The number of species close to extinction has been increased by 124 in the 2002 update the “Red List”, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s catalogue of threatened species. Full Story: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99
For once, it had seemed, here was a whale story from Japan that would have a happy ending. FulL Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/18074/story.htm
Norway’s whalers will be permitted to harpoon 711 whales next year, up from 2002 when catches were the highest since Oslo broke with a global ban a decade ago, the Fisheries Ministry said. Full Story: http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/n