By Richard Black Mexico’s twin crises – swine flu and the economy – may derail a plan to save the world’s most endangered cetacean. Only about 150 vaquita are left, and about 30 are dying each year through becoming entangled in fishing nets. The government has cut funding aimed at taking fishing boats out of […]
By Jeremy Hance The first global study of open ocean (pelagic) sharks and rays found that 32 percent of the species are threatened with extinction largely due to overfishing and bycatch, making pelagic sharks and rays more threatened than birds (12 percent), mammals (20 percent), and even amphibians (31 percent), which are considered to be […]
People are calling it the Inconvenient Truth of ocean overfishing. Rotten Tomatoes currently has it at 88%. Synopsis: The End of the Line is the first feature length doc to explore the dire state of overfishing which, if not severely curtailed, will mean the end of most seafood as an eating consideration within forty years. […]
By Martin Hickman, Consumer Affairs Correspondent Japan’s sprawling Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40 per cent share of the world market in bluefin tuna, one of the world’s most endangered fish. A corporation within the £170bn Mitsubishi empire is importing thousands of tonnes of the fish from Europe into Tokyo’s premium fish markets, despite stocks […]
The British taste for fish and chips could be driving species to the edge of extinction, according to a new survey that found the majority of people do not even try to make sustainable choices about seafood. By Louise Gray, Environment Correspondent Fish stocks are down all over the world with some species such as […]
MANADO, Indonesia (AFP) — The destruction of the world’s oceans due to climate change and overuse is a “life and death issue” for humanity, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Thursday. “We must come to the rescue of the oceans. We must save them from the ravages of abuse and over-exploitation by humankind, from the […]
By Jeremy Hance A few weeks into the bluefin tuna fishing season and Turkey has decided to go it alone. Breaking international agreements, the Turkish government has announced that it will ignore agreed-upon bluefin tuna quotas. The news is not good for the survival of the critically-endangered fish species, since Turkey operates the largest Mediterranean […]
Europe’s Common Fisheries Policy has failed and a completely new fishing management system is needed, the European Commission has admitted. By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels A new Brussels position paper highlighted severe problems with fisheries and urged a complete rethink of a key European Union policy. EU officials have been forced to admit that, despite […]
By JASON DEAREN, Associated Press Writer (04-08) 17:35 PDT Millbrae, Calif. (AP) — California’s commercial chinook salmon fishing season will be called off again after a record low number of the fish returned to the Sacramento River to spawn last year, federal fisheries managers announced Wednesday. The decision by the Pacific Fishery Management Council will […]
By AUDREY MCAVOY, ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER HONOLULU — The population of false killer whales in waters close to Hawaii appears to have dramatically declined over the past 20 years, a new study says. It’s not known for sure why the dolphin species is decreasing, but the academic paper says the reason likely has to do […]
