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Endangered Ocean Species Won’t Get International Trade Protection

Scott James — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:20:10 +0000

U.N. delegates from around the world gathered at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites) in Qatar this week- their mission? To vote on international regulations governing the trade in endangered species. For the urban layman, their decisions affect how much tuna we can have for sushi or [...]

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Sockeye Salmon Return to the Snake River

Scott James — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:45:51 +0000

During the sockeye salmon spawning season of 1992, one salmon was named “Lonesome Larry” because he was the only fish to complete the migration that year. This year, Larry’s descendants are not so lonesome. Each summer the sockeye salmon of the Snake River swim 900 miles upstream to the mating waters of Redfish Lake in central [...]

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Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund Eliminated by House; Will Senate Save Them?

Jennifer Lance — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:49:23 +0000

The 2010 Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund was not funded by the US House of Representatives in the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill.Â President Obama had called for $50 million to aid restoring the species, but Congressman Doc Hastings’ (R-WA) amendment was rejected by House Democrats.Â Funding for salmon recovery was not eliminated entirely, but [...]

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New Documentary Provides an Inconvenient Truth for Fish

Reenita Malhotra — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:00:48 +0000

A new documentary film, End of the Line, released at cinemas nationwide on World Ocean Day (8th June), warns that overfishing the bluefin tuna could result in the end of seafood by 2048 because all fishing stocks will collapse as a result of overfishing. The documentary has been compared to Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth. Just as [...]

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