Fishing industry starving whales of food

By Samantha Hayes Sun, 20 Jun 2010 6:00p.m. A marine biologist says he’s discovered a new threat to whales that has nothing to do with Japanese boats. Steve O’Shea studies beached whales in New Zealand and believes the fishing industry is starving them of their food supply. Twenty-one pilot whales have beached themselves at Aotea […]

As world prices peak, Vietnam runs out of shrimp to sell

Source: Tuoi treMonday, 21/06/2010 (GMT+7) VietNamNet Bridge – Shrimp prices have spiked since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, but Mekong Delta production is at a cyclical low. CEO Le Van Quang of Minh Phu Seafood Company says there’s been a surge in demand by US shrimp importers since the oil spill disaster cratered Gulf […]

Exotic Henslow crabs invading North Sea

(PhysOrg.com) — Climate change has led to masses of bizarre swimming crabs to invade the North Sea – hundreds of miles from their usual home, new research has revealed. The exotic Henslow swimming crabs have moved from the warm seas off Portugal to the increasingly comfortable waters off Britain’s east coast. Experts made the discovery […]

Death by fire in the gulf: Sea life incinerated alive in ‘burn boxes’

So-called burn boxes are torching oil from the water’s surface at the sacrifice of turtles, crabs, sea slugs and other sea life. By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles TimesJune 17, 2010 Reporting from the Gulf of Mexico — Here on the open ocean, 12 miles from ground zero of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the gulf […]

Blown-out BP oil well gushes vast amounts of methane, could create Gulf ‘dead zones’

Associated Press Writers Matthew Brown and Ramit Plushnick-Masti authored this report. Brown reported from Billings, Mont.Friday, June 18, 2010, 7:12 AM NEW ORLEANS — It is an overlooked danger in oil spill crisis: The crude gushing from the well contains vast amounts of natural gas that could pose a serious threat to the Gulf of […]

Biologists fear Gulf wildlife will suffer for generations

Disease and shortage of food may afflict Gulf fish and fowl for years By SARAH NETTERGRAND ISLE, La. June 17, 2010 Oiled birds may be cleaned up and beaches may be scrubbed, but the lingering affect of the poisonous gunk from the BP oil spill may be generations of wildife that is riddled with disease […]

Shrimp dumped, captain warned in Gulf

Associated PressJune 15, 2010, 8:42AM GRAND ISLE, La. — The Coast Guard says it found a shrimper working in an area closed because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, confiscated 19,000 pounds of white shrimp and put it all back in the water. Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the shrimp were live when returned […]

Oil spill spreads bitter disappointment in Barataria Bay — ‘Booming has not been effective…there’s more oil inside the booms than outside’

Oil spill video: Oiled birds on Cat Island By Brian Skoloff and Cain Burdeau of The Associated PressPublished: Monday, June 14, 2010 The sand dunes and islands of Barataria Bay, a huge expanse of water and marsh on Louisiana’s coast, have become the latest casualty of the environmental disaster spewing from BP’s offshore oil well […]

Cape Cod lobster industry faces crisis as waters warm

By Doug Fraserdfraser@capecodonline.comJune 13, 2010 Too hot for a lobster? The imagination leaps to boiling water, followed by lots of melted butter. But the water temperatures that are killing off far more lobsters than make it into a cooking pot are of a much lower order. In what could be the first major economic blow […]

Changing Chesapeake Bay acidity impacting oyster shell growth

Cambridge, Md. (June 10, 2010) – Acidity is increasing in some regions of the Chesapeake Bay even faster than is occurring in the open ocean, where it is now recognized that increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide dissolve in the seawater thereby making it more acidic. These more acidic conditions in key parts of Chesapeake […]

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