From Cambodia to California: The world’s top 10 most threatened forests

By Jeremy Hance, www.mongabay.comFebruary 02, 2011 Growing populations, expanding agriculture, commodities such as palm oil and paper, logging, urban sprawl, mining, and other human impacts have pushed many of the world’s great forests to the brink. Yet scientists, environmentalists, and even some policymakers increasingly warn that forests are worth more standing than felled. They argue […]

FAO: Fish consumption reaches all-time high – No improvement in level of global fish stocks

31 January 2011, Rome – The contribution of fish to global diets has reached a record of almost 17 kg per person on average, supplying over three billion people with at least 15 percent of their average animal protein intake. This increase is due mainly to the ever-growing production of aquaculture which is set to […]

Last refuge of rare fish threatened by Yangtze dam plans

Developers of hydroelectric plant have redrawn the boundaries of a crucial freshwater reserve for rare and economically important species By Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent, www.guardian.co.uk Tuesday 18 January 2011 07.00 GMT The last refuge for many of China’s rarest and most economically important wild fish has mere days to secure public support before it […]

Graph of the Day: Population Trends for Northern Shrimp and Key Predators Off Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador, 1976-2000

Population trends for northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) and key predators off eastern Newfoundland and Labrador. The biomass series for shrimp (■, left Yaxis) is represented by the CPUE index for NAFO Division 2HJ3K. The biomass series for fish predators (♦, right Y-axis), obtained from published documents in most cases, are given as tons x 103 […]

Blaming foreigners for the vanishing fish

By Bagehot for The EconomistJan 13th 2011, 15:03 THERE is a lot of talk in the air, just now, about the madness of the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), and how its strict quota system forces British trawlermen to throw vast quantities of fish back into the sea, dead. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a television chef […]

Gang attacks Costa Rican environmentalist investigating illegal shark-finning

By The Tico TimesMonday, January 10, 2011 Thugs on Saturday allegedly chased a biologist through a crowded market in the Pacific port of Puntarenas after he attempted to film shark fins drying at a makeshift dock. Investigating Costa Rica’s profitable shark-fin trade appears to be an increasingly dangerous undertaking. For the second time in less […]

Low squid haul worries Argentina

By Staff WritersBuenos Aires (UPI) Jan 10, 2011 Buenos Aires (UPI) Jan 10, 2011 – Argentine fisheries’ production of squid this year is at risk after crews found the stock already low outside the country’s exclusive economic zone. Low yields of the Illex argentinus variety of squid could spell trouble for this branch of the […]

Sustainable fish customers ‘duped’ by Marine Stewardship Council

Certification granted to controversial fisheries has prompted severe criticism of the sustainable fisheries organisation By Lewis Smith, www.guardian.co.ukThursday 6 January 2011 06.00 GMT The body which certifies that fish have been caught sustainably has been accused of “duping” consumers by giving its eco-label to fisheries where stocks are tumbling. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) manages […]

Video: Japan tuna sale sets price record

By Roland Buerk, BBC News, Tokyo 5 January 2011 A tuna has sold at auction for a record 32.49m yen in Tokyo, nearly $400,000 (£257,320). The fish was a blue fin, a variety prized for making the finest sushi. It was bought by a joint Japanese and Chinese bid. The first auction in January at […]

Video: On the trail of the men who hunt exotic shellfish and trade it illegally

By Karen Allen29 December 2010 The trade in exotic shellfish is part of a trade which is earning criminals some $70m a year. The smuggling of the giant sea snail – known as abalone – is being linked to the Chinese Triads and international drug gangs – who capture the fish from the deep and […]

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