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The ElephantThe climate change and environmental emergency: a comprehensive resource for journalists, politicians, policy makers, activists and citizens
‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return?
2024-08-29 in The GuardianNorth Atlantic populations are at a historic low, and this year 33 of the country’s rivers were closed during the fishing season as salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish’s future
Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ larger than average, scientists find
2024-08-02 (or before) in National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationNOAA-supported scientists announced today that this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone” — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is approximately 6,705 square miles, the 12th largest zone on record in 38 years of measurement. This figure equates to more than 4 million acres of habitat potentially unavai
Tagged under: Marine Life | Fish | Mexico | Oceans
As a Nevada Community Fights a Lithium Mine, a Rare Fish and Its Haven Could Be an Ace in the Hole - Inside Climate News
2024-07-15 by in Inside Climate NewsThe Ash Meadows Wildlife Refuge has been called the “Galapagos of the Mojave Desert,” but nearby residents fear a proposed lithium mine’s impacts on the region’s water will hurt both the wildlife and their town.
Tagged under: Fish
US admits dams in Pacific north-west have devastated Native Americans
2024-06-19 in The GuardianUS says dams killed off salmon, inundated villages and burial grounds, and spirited wealth away from tribes
Tagged under: Hydroelectricity | Oregon | Washington State | Salmon | Fish
‘The river was effectively sterilised’: At least 5,000 fish dead in Co Cork fish kill – The Irish Times
2024-06-11 in The Irish TimesInland Fisheries Ireland is investigating the cause of the the fish kill on the River Allow near Freemount
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How South Africa's sardine run is changing
2024-06-08 in BBCSouth Africa's sardine run is a spectacle to behold as thousands of predators feast on sardine mega-shoals – but climate change and over fishing are putting it at risk.
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Migratory freshwater fish populations ‘down by more than 80% since 1970’
2024-05-21 in The Guardian‘Catastrophic’ global decline due to dams, mining, diverting water and pollution threatens humans and ecosystems, study warns
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Scottish salmon industry challenged over move to drop ‘farmed’ from labels
2024-05-07 in The GuardianFish welfare campaigners say Defra decision facilitates greenwashing and will mislead consumers
The number of fish on US overfishing list reaches an all-time low. Mackerel and snapper recover
2024-05-06 in finance.yahoo.comThe number of fish on the government's overfishing list sunk to a new low last year in a sign of healthy U.S. fisheries, federal officials said. The...
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Mass fish die-off in Vietnam as heat wave roasts Southeast Asia
2024-05-01 in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyHundreds of thousands of fish have died in a reservoir in southern Vietnam's Dong Nai province, with locals and media reports suggesting a brutal heat wave and the lake's management are to blame.
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Massive Marine Ecosystem Crash Along Galicia’s Coast Due To Prolonged Atlantic Heatwave #climate
2024-04-23 (or before) in YouTubeIn this first published ClimateGenn episode for a couple of months, I want to thank subscribers for your patience. I have not been sitting idle but much more...
Tagged under: Collapse | Fish | Fishing
"It's getting worse" - US failing to stem tide of harmful farm pollutants
2024-04-15 by in thenewlede.orgBy Keith Schneider VENICE, LA. Kindra Arnesen is a 46-year-old commercial fishing boat operator who has spent most of her life among the pelicans and bayous of southern Louisiana, near the juncture where the 2,350-mile-long Mississippi River ends at the Gulf of Mexico. Clark Porter is a 62-year-old farmer who lives in north-central Iowa where he spends part of his day working as an environmental specialist for the state and the other part raising corn and soybeans on hundreds of acres that his family has owned for over a century. Though they’ve never met, and live 1,100 miles apart, Arnesen and Porter share a troubling ...
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Spinning, whirling fish in south Florida prompt emergency response
2024-03-31 in The GuardianSmalltooth sawfish are behaving oddly, eliciting a first-ever plan to rescue and rehabilitate the species from the wild
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Surviving fishing gear entanglement isn’t enough for endangered right whales – females still don’t breed afterward
2024-03-13 by in The ConversationEven when female North Atlantic right whales survive entanglement in fishing gear, it may affect their future ability to breed, increasing the pressure on this critically endangered species.
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Institute of Economic Affairs
2024-03-11 (or before) in DeSmogInstitute of Economic Affairs (IEA) Background The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is a London-based free-market thinktank and educational charity founded in 1955 by the late Sir Antony Fisher and Lord Harris with the mission “to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of markets in solving […]
Tagged under: Climate Change Denial and Disinformation | Fish | Disinformation and Misinformation
Mass salmon deaths are a warning: no one should be eating this fish
2024-03-10 by in inews.co.ukMortalities of this scale tell us something is profoundly wrong with the way we raise these animals for our consumption
Fish To Frolic Among Floating Offshore Wind Turbines - CleanTechnica
2024-03-08 by in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsA new offshore wind farm will host an aquaculture pilot project, featuring Hexicon's unique two-headed floating turbines.
Tagged under: Farming | Wind Power | Fish
Mass die-offs among farmed salmon on the rise around the world
2024-03-08 in The BBCWarmer seas and greater reliance on technology are linked to hundreds of millions of farmed salmon deaths.
Ocean temperatures reach their hottest in modern history
2024-03-07 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesClimate scientists fear further warming to come, putting fish, dolphins and coral reefs in danger
Tagged under: Fish | Extreme Heat | Sealife | Oceans
Higher temperatures force New England fishers off ice early: ‘Global warming is real’
2024-03-06 in The GuardianFor generations, residents have hauled tiny fishing shacks on to frozen lakes, but milder winters are forcing them to quit early
Tagged under: Fish | Climate Change Impacts | Ice Melting | USA | Fishing
Hundreds of thousands of fish found dead in Klamath River
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Scientists continue to search for what's poisoning Lower Keys fish. Another dead sawfish is confirmed
2024-03-01 in WLRN Miami and South FloridaAn another dead endangered sawfish was confirmed this week as reports of sick sawfish rose to 49 in the Florida Keys.
‘Poisoned by chemicals’: citizen scientists prove River Avon is polluted
2024-02-24 in The GuardianCharity says the decline of invertebrates linked to chemicals in water while Environment Agency said Wiltshire river had not deteriorated
‘The river has been destroyed’: expert says agriculture has overshadowed science in the Murray-Darling Basin
2024-02-20 in The GuardianAn ecologist who spent 36 years with NSW Fisheries says scientists working for the government are ‘aghast’ at the state of the Darling River but can’t speak publicly
Hinkley Point C fish protection plans attacked by environmental organisations
2024-02-19 in New Civil EngineerEDF recenrly proposed plans to create a saltmarsh at the Somerset nuclear plant site as an alternati...
Tagged under: Fish | Nuclear Power
Fish v. electricity: Could Salem nuclear plant be shut down?
2024-02-16 in Delaware LiveA judge in an obscure administrative court in Trenton, N.J., is set to hand down a ruling that could end a challenge to the Salem nuclear plant’s ability to pump billions of gallons of water…
Tagged under: Fish | Electricity | Nuclear Power | Rivers
‘A frenzy of bodies in the chamber of death’: Italian fishers fight to preserve an ancient tradition
2024-02-14 in The GuardianA sustainable technique for catching tuna that goes back thousands of years is on the verge of extinction in Italy – but not for a lack of fish
Tagged under: Fishing | Fish | Wildlife | Extinction
‘Odd’ Hinkley Point C salt marsh plan has Somerset locals up in arms
2024-02-02 in The GuardianAnger at EDF proposals to flood wildlife-rich farmland as ‘compensation’ for killing millions of fish at nuclear site
Tagged under: Wildlife | Nuclear Power | Fish
‘Unacceptable greenwashing’: Scottish farmed salmon should not be labelled organic, say charities
2024-01-30 in The GuardianOpen letter calls for Soil Association certification to be removed from industry, amid concerns of negative environmental impact
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
Celebrities urge satellite firm to ‘stop enabling harmful fishing’
2024-01-29 by in The Times & The Sunday TimesChris Packham and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall join campaign as Iridium accused over collapse of yellowfin tuna in industrial-scale harvest from Indian Ocean
Tagged under: Fishing | Collapse | India | Fish | Oceans
Fury as water firm begins pumping wastewater into one of Britain's most celebrated river that is famed for its salmon and trout fishing | Daily Mail Online
2024-01-27 (or before) in Daily Mail OnlineFurious residents living on the banks of the Test chalk stream in Hampshire have said planned pumping works from Southern Water could introduce 'an Olympic swimming pool' of sewage into the river.'
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Salmon
Our oceans are quickly losing their ability to support fish populations
2024-01-21 in Earth.comClimate change is stealthily undermining the ocean's capacity to sustain fish populations due to global reduction in plankton.
Carbon released by bottom trawling ‘too big to ignore’, says study
2024-01-18 in The GuardianFishing nets churn up carbon from the sea floor, more than half of which will eventually be released into the atmosphere
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What Happens When Africa's Largest Lake Runs Out of Fish?
2024-01-14 (or before) in National GeographicThe fishermen who rely on Lake Victoria's once-abundant perch population for their livelihood know they are living on borrowed time.
Tagged under: Fishing | Famine and Food Insecurity | Africa | Fish
Flooding smashes Maine’s coast, destroying historic buildings and forcing rescues
2024-01-13 by in Bangor Daily NewsIconic fishing shacks along a South Portland beach were destroyed in Saturday's storm, which also forced rescues down the coast.
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Steeper size spectra with decreasing phytoplankton biomass indicate strong trophic amplification and future fish declines - Nature Communications
2024-01-09 in NatureUsing a global synthesis of size spectra data from pelagic food webs, this study finds that size structure is not driven by temperature as often suggested, but by the nutrient status of the system. This means that modest phytoplankton declines projected for key fishing grounds at mid-latitudes will amplify into substantial reductions in the supportable biomass of fish.
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Biological responses to change in Antarctic sea ice habitats
2023-12-31 (or before) in FrontiersSea ice is a key habitat in the high latitude Southern Ocean and is predicted to change in its extent and duration in coming decades. The sea-ice cover is instrumental in mediating ocean-atmosphere exchanges and provides an important substrate for organisms from microbes to predators. Antarctic krill, Euphausia superba, are reliant on sea ice during key phases of its life cycle, particularly during the larval stages, as feeding grounds and refuge from their predators, while other small grazers, including copepods and amphipods, either live in the brine channel system or find food and shelter at the ice-water interface and in raf...
Tagged under: Fish | Antarctic | Oceans
Animal rights group urges halt to ‘monstrous’ Lincolnshire salmon farm
2023-12-27 in The GuardianOnshore farm that campaigners say would be UK’s biggest was given planning go-ahead without environmental check
‘Could be the end’: Tasmanian red handfish to be removed from wild amid marine heatwaves fears
2023-12-23 in The GuardianExemption under federal environment law to allow scientists to collect 25 of the critically endangered ‘walking fish’
Tagged under: Fish | Wildlife | Heatwaves
Conservationists take UK to court for ‘illegally squandering’ fish stocks
2023-12-21 in The GuardianBlue Marine Foundation is challenging government for ignoring scientific advice on limits and giving a green light to overfishing
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Chris Packham calls for halt to ‘catastrophic’ expansion of Scottish salmon farms
2023-12-11 in The GuardianBroadcaster and RSPCA president says moratorium needed as mortality rates jump, while activists question charity’s role in certifying farms
Tagged under: Fish | UK | Salmon | Activism
Fish Health Inspectorate: mortality information
2023-12-11 (or before) in Scottish GovernmentUnder a voluntary agreement with Scottish Government, Aquaculture Production Businesses (APB) report instance of mortality above specified thresholds. Reports are used as part of the wider aquatic animal health surveillance programme to direct further investigations as required.
Thousands of tonnes of dead fish wash ashore in Japan
2023-12-11 (or before) in riverineherald.com.auThousands of tonnes of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons, officials say.
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Japan
Quarter of world’s freshwater fish at risk of extinction, according to assessment
2023-12-11 in The GuardianGlobal heating, pollution, overfishing and falling water levels among factors hitting populations, finds IUCN red list study
Tagged under: Fish | Wildlife | Trees | Extinction
Too little, too late: the desperate search for cod babies
2023-11-27 in The GuardianHistorically, it was overfishing that hurt the much-prized fish – but now rising ocean temperatures are inhibiting the fish’s ability to produce codlings at all
Tagged under: Fishing | Fish | Oceans
Rat plague spreads to Australia's fishing towns
2023-11-23 in The BBCWith more wet weather expected for Queensland, some people believe the worst is yet to come.
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WE WON! DEFRA’s River Basin Management Planning unlawful, finds High Court
2023-11-20 by in Fish LegalIn landmark ruling with far-reaching implications for UK’s polluted rivers Fish Legal and Pickering Fishery Association are celebrating a legal victory today, having won a landmark judicial review in the High Court against the Government and the Environment Agency of its defective river improvement plans. The Court ruled that the Government, and the Environment Agency, […]
Microplastic-eating plankton may be worsening crisis in oceans, say scientists
2023-11-09 in The GuardianRotifers could be accelerating risk by splitting particles into thousands of potentially more dangerous nanoplastics
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Oceans | Wildlife | Fish
Frontline Communities Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Plastics Giant Formosa
2023-10-30 by in DeSmogCommunities around the world impacted by the plastics giant Formosa are launching a global hunger strike on October 31. Fishers, organizers, and concerned citizens in Texas, Vietnam and Louisiana — areas that are home to existing or proposed Formosa plants — have supported each other's efforts to mobilize against the Taiwan-based firm, forming the organization International Monitor Formosa Alliance (IMFA). Now the alliance is launching a hunger strike to demand that the victims of a 2016 environmental disaster in central Vietnam caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation, a subsidiary of the Formosa Plastics G...
Tagged under: Fish | Louisiana | Texas | Activism
Struggling salmon fishermen getting federal help in Oregon and along West Coast, but it may be too late - OPB
2023-10-23 in Oregon Public BroadcastingU.S. Department of Commerce declared a Chinook fishery disaster for 2018, 2019 and 2020 when salmon populations plummeted.
Tagged under: Oregon | Fish | Salmon
Billions of Alaska snow crabs likely vanished due to warm ocean, study says
2023-10-21 in The GuardianThe crabs starved to death en masse because the change in water temperature increased their caloric needs, according to the NOAA
Tagged under: Fish | Oceans | Wildlife | Alaska | Sealife
South Africa’s penguins heading toward extinction; will no-fishing zones help?
2023-10-17 in MongabayCAPE TOWN — The endangered African penguin (Spheniscus demersus) could be extinct in the wild in just over a decade. To protect the bird’s food supply and slow its population collapse, South Africa is throwing a protective no-fishing cordon around its main breeding colonies. But the devil is in the details, and conservationists say time […]
Tagged under: Fish | Collapse | Africa | Extinction
Media Release: Baby fish led astray by high CO2 in oceans
2023-10-12 (or before) in The University of Adelaide BlogsIrreversible behavioural impairment of fish starts early: Embryonic exposure to ocean acidification
2023-10-12 (or before) in The University of Adelaide BlogsTagged under: Oceans | Ocean Acidification | Fish
Global marine analysis suggests food chain collapse
2023-10-12 (or before) in The University of AdelaideA world-first global analysis of marine responses to climbing human CO2 emissions has painted a grim picture of future fisheries and ocean ecosystems.
Tagged under: Famine and Food Insecurity | Food Production and Consumption | Collapse | Fish | Fishing | Oceans
Indigenous Amazonians urge Brazil to declare emergency over severe drought
2023-10-10 in The GuardianDrought and heatwave has killed fish in rivers as Indigenous umbrella group Apiam says villagers have no water, food or medicine
Tagged under: Fish | Deforestation | Amazon Rainforest | Drought | Brazil | Trees | Rivers
Hundreds of potentially toxic road runoff outfalls polluting England’s rivers
2023-10-05 in The GuardianExclusive: No regulator is monitoring scale of impact of dangerous chemicals on wildlife or public health
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Wildlife | Health
British diners warned off more fish types due to low populations in waters
2023-10-04 in The GuardianPollack from the Channel and dover sole from the Irish Sea among those to avoid, Good Fish Guide says
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Thousands of salmon escaped an Icelandic fish farm. The impact could be deadly
2023-09-30 in The GuardianAquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
China is going to use less coal, despite reports to the contrary – The China Project
2023-09-21 by in The China Project | Reporting on China without fear or favorCoal is on a downward track, the only questions are how long it will last before being substituted and which green cargo will replace it.
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Oxygen levels are dropping in rivers across the US and central Europe | New Scientist
2023-09-20 (or before) in New ScientistRivers in the US and central Europe are losing their ability to hold oxygen because of rising temperatures, which could put fish at risk
Environmentalists hold ‘wake’ for Lough Neagh over toxic algae bloom
2023-09-18 (or before) in Belfast TelegraphEnvironmentalists have held a wake to mark the “death” of the UK and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake as they accused polluters of causing a huge bloom of toxic blue-green algae. Lough Neagh supplies 40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water. It also sustains a major eel fishing industry.
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‘Monstrous’ sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms
2023-09-16 in The GuardianVegan charity and its drones reveal that parasites are infesting fish reared for UK supermarkets
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
Taking Stock: The State of UK Fish Populations 2023
2023-09-14 (or before) in Oceana UK Home - Oceana UKBritain’s fish populations are in a ‘deeply troubling state’ – report
2023-09-13 in The GuardianSpecies such as mackerel and North Sea cod have been overfished or have reached critically low populations
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Fish Legal
2023-09-08 (or before) in Fish LegalTagged under: Fish
The summer food went weird: searing heat reshapes US food production
2023-09-02 in The GuardianFrom wilting wheat to stressed pollinators, US farmers and fishermen see unexpected climate effects
Tagged under: Drought | Farming | Climate Change | Fish | Food Production and Consumption
Environmental crisis looms as Murray cod virtually disappear from NSW Lower Darling
2023-08-28 in The GuardianNSW Fisheries survey from May reveals attempts at repopulating river after 2018-19 drought appear to have failed
Tagged under: Drought | Fish | Rivers
When will the next ocean heat wave strike? Scientists develop early warning systems
2023-08-28 (or before) in Science | AAASSea temperature forecasts could inform fisheries management and conservation
China bans Japanese seafood after Fukushima wastewater release
2023-08-24 in The GuardianWater containing radioactive tritium being pumped into Pacific via tunnel from Tepco plant, amid protests from China, South Korea and fishing communities
Tagged under: Oceans | Nuclear Power | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Japan | Activism
Eels have vanished from critical parts of Somerset Levels, DNA tests show
2023-08-23 in The GuardianExperts shocked as analysis finds no traces of eel DNA in area once teeming with the endangered fish
I swam everyday to process my grief. Now Cornwall's beaches can be blighted by sewage
2023-08-21 by in inews.co.uk'The cold water helped to calm and soothe me, on both good and bad days'
Tagged under: Fish | Climate Anxiety and Grief
Deadly floods hit China's major grain-producing region, fueling food security concerns | CNN
2023-08-07 by in CNN InternationalDays of heavy rain have caused severe flooding in China’s leading grain-producing region in the northeast, killing 14 people and raising concerns about food security as floodwater inundated farmlands.
Tagged under: Farming | Fish | Flooding | Health | Trees | Finance
Effects of temperature on feeding and digestive processes in fish
2023-07-22 (or before) in Taylor & Francis Online: Peer-reviewed JournalsAs most fish are ectotherms, their physiology is strongly affected by temperature. Temperature affects their metabolic rate and thus their energy balance and behavior, including locomotor and feedi...
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Have we reached peak fish?
2023-07-21 in The GuardianHumans are eating more seafood than ever, and we are removing fish from the ocean at a far greater rate than they can replenish. What can be done?
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife
Fish Legal taking Southern Water to the Criminal Courts - Fish Legal
2023-07-18 in Fish LegalFish Legal has started a private prosecution against Southern Water for polluting the river Test in Hampshire
Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people - PubMed
2023-07-09 (or before) in PubMed National Center for Biotechnology InformationContinuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requireme …
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Opinion | In Texas, Dead Fish and Red-Faced Desperation Are Signs of Things to Come
2023-07-08 in The New York TimesThames Water dumped ‘millions of litres’ of sewage near Gatwick Airport river killing more than 1,000 fish | The Independent
2023-07-04 (or before) in The IndependentUntreated sewage was pumped into River Mole near Crawley for six and a half hours, turning water black
Thames Water fined £3.3 million after ‘millions of litres’ of sewage pumped into rivers near Gatwick | The Independent
2023-07-04 (or before) in The IndependentThames Water had shown a ‘deliberate attempt’ to mislead the Environment Agency over the incident
Scottish government scraps marine conservation plan - BBC News
2023-06-29 (or before) in BBCThe proposals would have restricted fishing and other human activities in some coastal areas.
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Dogs 'sick' and fish found dead after sewage leaks in town stream
2023-06-28 (or before) in Brighton ArgusDogs have reportedly become sick and fish and eels were found dead after sewage leaks in water near a town park in Sussex.
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River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to prevent fish deaths | New Scientist
2023-06-26 (or before) in New ScientistFalling oxygen levels caused by sewage and hot weather saw a specialised boat deployed for 11 days in August to save plants and fish
‘Unheard of’ marine heatwave off UK and Irish coasts poses serious threat
2023-06-19 in The GuardianSustained high temperatures over summer could trigger mass mortality of fish and oysters, say scientists
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife
Rivers fishermen lament fresh oil spillage
2023-06-15 by in Punch newspapers - Breaking News, Nigerian News & Top StoriesThey lamented that the river is a major source of livelihood for about 300 registered fishermen in the area.
Vast fossil fuel and farming subsidies causing ‘environmental havoc’
2023-06-15 in The GuardianWorld Bank says subsidies costing as much as $23m a minute must be repurposed to fight climate crisis
Tagged under: Farming | Fish | Wildlife | Fossil Fuels
OMEX Agriculture Ltd to pay £510,190 for wiping out over 135,000 fish
2023-06-15 (or before) in GOV.UKA faulty pipe leaked deadly fertiliser into River Witham, stretching 46km in ‘one of the largest environmental incidents ever recorded in Lincolnshire’.
Thousands of fish wash up on Texas coast
2023-06-13 (or before) in The BBCExperts in the region say it is due to a depletion of oxygen after high water temperatures.
How Warming Ruined a Crab Fishery and Hurt an Alaskan Town
2023-06-11 (or before) in Yale E360As the world warms, extended spikes in ocean temperatures are triggering the collapse of key marine populations. For the Aleut community of St. Paul, Alaska, the loss of the snow crab fishery is having a profound economic impact and raising questions about the future.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Fish | Collapse | Alaska | Sealife
Scottish fishers say marine protection plans will wreck coastal communities
2023-06-05 in The GuardianOutcry includes protest song comparing closure of inshore fishing grounds to Highland clearances
Pigs, rabbits and fish are dying from searing temperatures in China | CNN Business
2023-06-02 by in CNNWith parts of China experiencing record high temperatures and heavy rains, reports of farm animals and crops suffering from extreme weather patterns are dominating headlines in the country, raising concerns about food security in the world’s second largest economy.
Tagged under: Drought | Farming | Fish | Flooding | Rivers | Health | Food Production and Consumption | El Niño | Trees | Finance
Students and Faculty at Ohio State Respond to a Bill That Would Restrict College Discussions of Climate Policies - Inside Climate News
2023-05-31 by in Inside Climate NewsCOLUMBUS, Ohio—Keely Fisher chose to pursue her Ph.D. at Ohio State University because she wanted to learn about climate change from a world-class faculty. Now one year into her program, she wonders if she belongs here. The problem has nothing to do with Ohio State and everything to do with the Ohio General Assembly and […]
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fish
Experts call for ‘loss and damage’ fund for nature in developing world
2023-05-29 in The GuardianRich nations should pay for biodiversity loss, which disproportionately affects poor countries, say scientists
Tagged under: Fish | Wildlife | Biodiversity Loss
Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters | Science
2023-05-14 (or before) in Science | AAASAs plastic waste pollutes the oceans and fish stocks decline, unseen below the surface another problem grows: deoxygenation. Breitburg et al. review the evidence for the downward trajectory of oxygen levels in ...
Impact of warmer seas on fish stocks leads to rise in pirate attacks
2023-05-11 in The GuardianStudy of piracy hotspots in east Africa and South China Sea found that piracy increases when fish populations decline and vice versa
As Ocean Oxygen Levels Dip, Fish Face an Uncertain Future
2023-05-11 (or before) in Yale E360Global warming not only increases ocean temperatures, it triggers a cascade of effects that are stripping the seas of oxygen. Fish are already moving to new waters in search of oxygen, and scientists are warning of the long-term threat to fish species and marine ecosystems.
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Sea Level
Retained EU Law Bill: Government places hundreds of UK green laws on the chopping board
2023-05-11 in Business GreenLaws, regulations, treaties and decisions related to habitats, air quality, climate change, renewable energy, farming and fishing proposed for scrapheap under government plans
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Farming | Climate Change | Fish
Revealed: most of EU delegation to crucial fishing talks made up of fishery lobbyists
2023-04-26 in The GuardianEurope accused of ‘neocolonialism’ for using vassal small island states to sway policy and continue ‘disgraceful plundering’ of distant waters
Tagged under: Pacific Ocean | Africa | Fish | Wildlife | Indonesia
How 'rewiggling' Swindale Beck brought its fish back - BBC News
2023-04-25 (or before) in The BBCHow re-wiggling artificially straightened rivers can give nature a boost.
Mackerel loses sustainable status as overfishing puts species at risk
2023-04-05 in The GuardianMarine Conservation Society calls for better regulation of how north-east Atlantic mackerel is caught as stocks decline
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife
Ocean salmon fishing ban off California and Oregon as stocks plummet
2023-03-24 in The GuardianAdult fall-run Chinook salmon returned to California’s rivers in near record low numbers in 2022
Tagged under: Oregon | Oceans | Fish | Rivers | Salmon | California
Petition update · This could be bad news... · Change.org
2023-03-20 (or before) in change.orgIn 2015, Fish Legal won a landmark case that secured the public’s right to obtain environmental information from privatised water companies under the EIR 2004. If the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill is enacted these regulations will be repealed. If this route disappears water companies will be able to withhold data on sewage spills. This is incredibly important for everyone who is campaigning to clean up our freshwater hence why I ask you take two minutes to sign here United Utilities constantly refuse to provide data which makes it incredibly difficult to scrutinise what's going on. If this h...
Tagged under: Water Resources | Fish
Menindee: Australia begins mass fish death clean-up - BBC News
2023-03-20 (or before) in The BBCAuthorities are working out what to do with millions of rotting fish and reassuring the public about water quality.
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Politicians call for action on Menindee mass fish deaths
2023-03-19 by in The New Daily - Latest News Headlines From Australia & WorldPoliticians are calling for the urgent removal of the millions of dead fish clogging the waterways of the Darling-Baaka River near Menindee.
Menindee: Millions of dead fish wash up near Australian town - BBC News
2023-03-19 (or before) in The BBC"Just imagine leaving a fish in your kitchen to rot" said one resident, describing the smell.
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‘Phenomenal loophole’ in quotas could lead to massive overfishing
2023-03-16 in The GuardianExclusive: Drastically weakened rules on how vessels document their catches of endangered species could endanger the marine ecosystem, confidential EU papers reveal
High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN
2023-03-05 in The GuardianAfter almost 20 years of talks, United Nations member states agree on legal framework for parts of the ocean outside national boundaries
Sylvia Earle: ‘We are on the brink – a million species may be lost’
2023-02-09 in The GuardianWe are a species that is superb at killing, says veteran oceanographer, who calls for us to stop treating fish like crops and give them the respect they deserve
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife
What Is the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch?
2023-01-31 (or before) in Sustainable & Eco Friendly eCommerce Packaging | SR MailingThe Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is considered by many to be one of humanity’s biggest crimes against the planet – and really, just the name of it gives away the horror of what it actually is, considering the size of the Pacific Ocean. We talk a lot about what can be done to save the planet here at SR Mailing, and that’s because we’re absolutely passionate about it! The fact that there is so much to be done, and that there is so much that we can all be doing in our daily lives that can help us to save planet Earth from global warming and climate change. The issue, of course, is much, much bigger than...
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Oceans | Greenhouse Gases | Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | Methane | Fish | Rivers | Whales and Dolphins | Wildlife | Economic Growth | Great Barrier Reef | Coral Reefs | California | South America | BP | Sea Level | Indonesia | Activism | India
New report warns of massive decline in freshwater fish populations and threat to livelihoods
2023-01-31 (or before) in Swansea UniversityThe Living Planet Index for Migratory Freshwater Fish, the first comprehensive global report on the status of migratory fish has revealed that there has been a 76% average decline in freshwater fish populations from 1970 to 2016 - including a staggering average decline of 93% in Europe.
Tagged under: Fish
Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities - Nature
2023-01-22 (or before) in NatureSerious concerns have been raised about the ecological effects of industrialized fishing1,2,3, spurring a United Nations resolution on restoring fisheries and marine ecosystems to healthy levels4. However, a prerequisite for restoration is a general understanding of the composition and abundance of unexploited fish communities, relative to contemporary ones. We constructed trajectories of community biomass and composition of large predatory fishes in four continental shelf and nine oceanic systems, using all available data from the beginning of exploitation. Industrialized fisheries typically reduced community biomass by 80% wit...
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Health
Loss of tiny organisms hurts ocean, fishing, scientists say
2023-01-19 in Associated Press NewsPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The warming of the waters off the East Coast has come at an invisible, but very steep cost — the loss of microscopic organisms that make up the base of the ocean's food chain.
Salmon deaths on Scotland’s fish farms double – but are jellyfish to blame?
2023-01-15 in The GuardianMarine farmers point finger at jellyfish swarms but campaigners call for boycott to curb ‘ever-worsening problem’ of overcrowding
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
Mass crab die-off: scientists say ‘we weren’t questioned’ for crucial report
2023-01-15 in The GuardianA review panel on the 2021 Teesside eco-disaster is due to send its findings to ministers this week, but evidence from academics may not be given full weight
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Sealife
Investments' role in ecosystem degradation
2022-12-07 (or before) in Science | AAASIn their Review “Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change” (13 December 2019, p. eaax3100), Díaz et al. discuss the results of the first integrated global-scale assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The authors identify extraction of resources to provide food, feed, and industrial feedstocks as the main direct driver of the observed changes in the ecosystems on which humans depend. Socioeconomic and institutional factors represent the indirect drivers. Although Díaz et al. mention that tax havens channel funds to support illegal fis...
Tagged under: Fish | Capitalism
Fish farms scrutinised as antibiotic use soars
2022-12-04 (or before) by in The Times & The Sunday TimesDependence on antibiotics in aqua- culture has surged despite widespread efforts to reduce the use of drugs by intensive farmers.Salmon farms in Scotland deploy
Living Planet Report 2016
2022-11-25 (or before) in worldwildlife.orgPopulations of vertebrate animals—such as mammals, birds, and fish—have declined by 58% between 1970 and 2012. On average, there’s been a whopping 81% decline in freshwater species during this time.
Tagged under: Fish
OPINIONISTA: Fossil fuel multinationals can never pay Africa enough compensation – the price is life on Earth
2022-10-24 by in Daily Maverick - South African news, opinion and investigationsMany Africans live close to the land – as subsistence or small-scale farmers, or from fishing in rivers, lakes and coastal waters. When the oil and gas industry trumpets the jobs it will create, it never mentions the jobs, the land and the water it will destroy.
Tagged under: Africa | Fish | Rivers
Into the ice: A crab boat’s quest for snow crab in a Bering Sea upended by climate change
2022-10-17 (or before) in The Seattle TimesThe Bering Sea's winter ice is treacherous, but it's also a key ally to the snow crab fishery. When it's not there, the crab population suffers.
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fish | Washington State | Sealife
1 billion crabs go missing, causing cancellation of Alaskan snow crab season
2022-10-16 (or before) in Massachusetts Local News, Breaking News, Sports and WeatherThis marks the first time that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has canceled the winter snow crab season, coming as a consequence of their massive population drop.
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife | Alaska | Sealife
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2022-10-14 in The New York TimesDiscover the value of independent Times journalism today.
Tagged under: Fish | Alaska | Sealife
Holy Island will die' - Stark warning over government's proposed fishing ban - Chronicle Live
2022-09-03 (or before) by James Robinson in chroniclelive.co.ukTagged under: Fish
‘It will benefit the powerful’: row over Brixham fish market levelling up plan
2022-08-28 in The GuardianConservationists and smaller fishers say expansion scheme is ‘good for the big boys’ but will not benefit Devon port
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Liz Truss allowed farmers to pollute England’s rivers after ‘slashing red tape’, say campaigners
2022-08-27 in The GuardianAgricultural waste outstrips sewage as the main danger – and activists blame the ex-environment secretary’s cuts to farm inspections
Tagged under: Farming | Activism | Fish | Rivers | Wildlife
Europe’s rivers run dry as scientists warn drought could be worst in 500 years
2022-08-13 in The GuardianCrops, power plants, barge traffic, industry and fish populations devastated by parched waterways
Tagged under: Drought | Fish | Rivers
Record coral cover on parts of Great Barrier Reef, but global heating could jeopardise recovery
2022-08-03 in The GuardianFast-growing species of branching and plate-like corals push cover up but are also the preferred prey for crown-of-thorns starfish
Tagged under: Oceans | Great Barrier Reef | Fish
Seagrass on the brink: Decline of threatened seagrass Posidonia australis continues following protection
2022-07-19 (or before) in PLOS - Open ScienceSeagrasses are in decline globally due to sustained pressure from coastal development, water quality declines and the ongoing threat from climate change. The result of this decline has been a change in coastal productivity, a reduction in critical fisheries habitat and increased erosion. Attempts to slow this decline have included legislative protection of habitat and direct restoration efforts. Monitoring the success of these approaches requires tracking changes in the abundance of seagrasses, but such monitoring is frequently conducted at either too coarse a spatial scale, or too infrequently to adequately detect changes withi...
Tagged under: Climate Change | Fish | Sea Level | Climate Change Impacts
Scientists unveil bionic robo-fish to remove microplastics from seas
2022-06-22 in The GuardianTiny self-propelled robo-fish can swim around, latch on to free-floating microplastics and fix itself if it gets damaged
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Oceans | Fish
Closing the high seas to fishing: A club approach
2022-06-20 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThe world’s fisheries are governed by a vast, and largely ineffective, set of international and regional institutions. If we are to preserve and manag…
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Global fisheries subsidies: An updated estimate
2022-06-20 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comThe aim of this paper is to provide an updated estimate of global fisheries subsidies. It builds on earlier estimates and methodologies to re-estimate…
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Are the dead shellfish littering our beaches evidence of a toxic waste cover-up? | George Monbiot
2022-06-06 in The GuardianEnvironmentalists fear a toxic disaster is occurring on the seabed, and the government denials seem less and less plausible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
As California's big cities fail to rein in their water use, rural communities are already tapped out | CNN
2022-06-05 by in CNNRural Californians live with the daily worry that they won't have enough water to bathe with or drink.
Tagged under: Drought | Fish | California | Trees | Water Resources
Record low wild salmon catch in Scotland alarms ecologists
2022-06-01 in The GuardianCalls for action as decline is seen as evidence of harm caused by climate crisis, pollution and fish farming
Tagged under: Fish | Salmon | Wildlife
Fishing industry still ‘bulldozing’ seabed in 90% of UK marine protected areas
2022-05-31 in The GuardianNew data shows ‘mystifying’ lack of progress in post-Brexit pledge to curb bottom-trawling, two years after landmark legislation
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife | Legislation
Transparency for a Sustainable Ocean | Global Fishing Watch
2022-05-31 (or before) in Global Fishing Watch - Transparency for a Sustainable OceanSustainable ocean through increased transparency: we create map visualizations, data and analysis to enable scientific research and transform ocean management
Major New Zealand salmon producer shuts farms as warming waters cause mass die-offs
2022-05-26 in The GuardianUp to 42% of company’s fish have died in warm water areas this year, with CEO warning climate change is ‘faster than people think’
Tagged under: Climate Change | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Salmon
Environment tipping points fast approaching in UK, says watchdog
2022-05-12 in The GuardianFrom fisheries collapse to dead rivers, official body urges government to urgently turn ambition into action
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Wildlife | Collapse | Tipping Points
Anglian Water fined £18k after sewage flooded river in Yaxley - BBC News
2022-05-07 (or before) in The BBCAt least 60 fish died when two pumps failed and raw sewage entered the waterway.
Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline - Earth Day
2022-03-18 by in Earth DayThe world is facing a mass extinction of species. All species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods (insects and arachnids), fish, crustaceans, corals and other cnidarians, and plants have declined, in many cases, severely. Human civilization has had a negative impact on most living things. We are currently living through a mass species extinction […]
Tagged under: Fish | Insects | Coral Reefs | Extinction
UN ocean treaty is ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to protect the high seas
2022-03-10 in The GuardianNegotiators aim to agree on legal framework for protecting international waters that are key to ‘life as we know it’
Bottom trawling triples in key marine protected area despite Brexit promise
2022-02-28 in The GuardianAnalysis by the Marine Conservation Society shows dredging at England’s Dogger Bank site has increased despite government pledge to ban the practice
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife
Lake Malawi's Fish Defy Death - While Their World Heritage Home Is Threatened | We Don't Have Time
2022-02-28 (or before) in app.wedonthavetime.orgBy Jeffrey Barbee January 27, 2022 In the shallow rocky waters below a high granite outcrop a fish lies sideways, fallen onto the sand below. Its skin the hue of a rotting corpse, the fish is unmoving, apparently dead. But looks can be deceiving. As scavenger fish approach, the play-dead fish springs into action, snapping up the would-be eaters in a flurry of motion. One of hundreds of new fish species discovered in the warm waters of Lake Malawi in the last four decades, the play-dead fish’s only home is now in danger of being destroyed. Play dead fish Nimbochromis livingstonii. Picture: Ken McKaye/allianceearth.org Lake...
Tagged under: Deforestation | Extreme Weather | Africa | Fish | Rivers | Insects | Legislation | Electricity | Health | Trees | Finance
Death and decimation: Whitby devastated by declining marine life
2022-02-10 in The GuardianUnprecedented levels of crabs, lobsters, coral and sea birds are dying on north-east coast
Tagged under: Fish | Wildlife | Coral Reefs | Sea Level | Sealife
UK drops ‘absurd’ case against Greenpeace for dropping rocks in sea
2022-02-07 in The GuardianJudge rebukes Marine Management Organisation for prosecution over direct action to stop bottom trawling
Tagged under: Activism | Greenhouse Gases | Fish | Wildlife | Greenpeace
Illegal overfishing by Chinese trawlers leaves Sierra Leone locals ‘starving’
2022-02-01 in The GuardianAs illegal industrial-scale fishing by foreign fleets pillages fish populations, despairing coastal communities say they feel powerless
Tagged under: Africa | Fish | Wildlife
The smell of money: why locals think Peru’s billion-dollar fishmeal sector stinks
2022-01-21 in The GuardianThose living in the coastal city of Chimbote say the industry pollutes the air and water, makes their children sick and has put local fishers out of work
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Women and Children
Expanding national parks not enough to protect nature, say scientists
2022-01-19 in The Guardian‘Urgent’ coordinated action to tackle overconsumption, farming subsidies and the climate crisis also needed to halt biodiversity loss
Tagged under: Oceans | Farming | Fish | Wildlife | Biodiversity Loss
Dumped fishing gear is killing marine life. Yet no governments seem to care | George Monbiot
2022-01-19 in The GuardianOne Scottish trawlerman is so incensed by the dumping of nets he’s come to me – a longstanding critic of his industry – with evidence, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
‘It’s mind-boggling’: the hidden cost of our obsession with fish oil pills
2022-01-18 in The GuardianThe market in this prized commodity is worth billions – but are the supposed benefits worth the cost to global ecosystems?
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife | Health
Yorkshire coast fishermen scared for livelihoods as 'everything is dead for miles' - YorkshireLive
2022-01-15 (or before) by Megan Banner in examinerlive.co.ukTagged under: Fish
Unprecedented die-offs, melting ice: Climate change is wreaking havoc in the Arctic and beyond
2022-01-06 (or before) in Phys.org - News and Articles on Science and TechnologyForces profound and alarming are reshaping the upper reaches of the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, breaking the food chain that supports billions of creatures and one of the world's most important fisheries.
Tagged under: Oceans | Arctic | Climate Change | Fish | Ice Melting
Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 30 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending
2021-12-09 (or before) in Films for ActionOur present moment is saturated in dystopian, apocalyptic fantasies of the future. As the late Mark Fisher said, "It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” We can...
Tagged under: Fish | Capitalism
OPINIONISTA: The mind of every Ogoni person is imprinted with what Shell has done to our land
2021-12-07 by in Daily Maverick - South African news, opinion and investigationsI was born in Bane, a coastal village of the Ogoni people. My family bears testimony to what Shell does to the environment. I saw my grand-uncle’s fishing business come to an abrupt stop and my father relocate to the periphery of the city where he spent the rest of his life as a fisher around the city.
Eyewitnesses to disaster: Commercial fishermen implore action on the collapse of Alaska ecosystems
2021-10-30 (or before) in The Seattle TimesThe North Pacific ecosystem is asking us to re-calibrate. Fish and crab stocks are crashing. As professional commercial fishermen, we need regulatory rules nimble enough to deal with new, rapidly-changing realities.
Tagged under: Pacific Ocean | Fish | Collapse | Alaska | Washington State | Sealife
‘Toilet of Europe’: Spain’s pig farms blamed for mass fish die-offs
2021-10-13 in The GuardianExclusive: pork industry’s role in pollution of one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons may be greater than publicly acknowledged, investigation reveals
Tagged under: Spain | Farming | Fish | Wildlife
Salmon & Trout Conservation
2021-09-13 (or before) in WildFish | Working To Protect Wild Fish & Their WatersOur vision at Salmon & Trout Conservation is to keep our waters wild. We campaign for sustainable water environment which support an abundance of wild fish.
‘Everything is changing’: the struggle for food as Malawi’s Lake Chilwa shrinks
2021-08-30 in The GuardianThe livelihoods of 1.5 million people are at risk as the lake’s occasional dry spells occur ever more frequently
Tagged under: Deforestation | Africa | Fish | Wildlife | Sustainability
Spain bans fertilisers near saltwater lagoon after dead fish wash up
2021-08-26 in The GuardianOfficials close eight beaches as residents complain of cloudy, green water that emits a foul smell
Video shows salmon injured by unlivable water temperatures after heatwave
2021-07-27 in The GuardianA conservation group recorded the video after a heatwave in the Pacific north-west on a day when water temperatures breached 70F
Tagged under: Heatwaves | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Rivers | Salmon | Washington State
UK food supply chain vulnerable to cyber-attack, expert warns
2021-07-11 in The Guardian‘Complacent reliance’ on overseas produce and computer ordering has put supply at risk
Plastic rafting: the invasive species hitching a ride on ocean litter
2021-06-14 in The GuardianThere is now so much ocean plastic that it has become a route for invasive species, threatening native animals with extinction
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife | Extinction
‘We’re causing our own misery’: oceanographer Sylvia Earle on the need for sea conservation
2021-06-12 in The Guardian‘Queen of the Deep’ says it is not too late to reverse human-made damage to oceans and preserve biodiversity
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife
‘Sea snot’ covers Turkish coast, threatening fishing industry
2021-06-05 in The GuardianThe mucilage blamed on pollution and warming is killing shellfish in the Sea of Marmara and alarming residents of Istanbul
Hundreds of fishing fleets that go ‘dark’ suspected of illegal hunting, study finds
2021-06-02 in The GuardianVessels primarily from China switch off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in possible illegal fishing
Tagged under: Argentina | China | Pacific Ocean | Fish | Wildlife
Banned pesticide blamed for killing bees may be approved for fish farms
2021-05-27 in The GuardianGovernment agency appears to support introduction of system which uses insecticide US termed an ‘environmental hazard’
Tagged under: Farming | Fish | Wildlife | Bees | Insects
Pesticide-resistant blood-sucking lice threaten wild and farmed fish
2021-05-27 (or before) by in New Scientist‘Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainforest for Chinese harbour
2021-05-17 in The GuardianControversial deal with China would be disastrous for fishing and protected rainforest, say opponents
Tagged under: China | Rainforests | Africa | Fish
Regulators missing pollution’s effect on marine life, study finds
2021-04-27 in The GuardianChemicals and plastics, not just overfishing, threaten aquatic food chain with ‘disaster’, report warns
Alaska Red King Crab Dethroned by Scientific Fraud - PEER.org
2021-04-26 by in Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility - PEER.orgBristol Bay red king crab is nearing commercial extinction due to scientific fraud by the fisheries branch of NOAA, according to a complaint filed by PEER.
Tagged under: Fish | Alaska | Extinction | Sealife
Is Netflix's Seaspiracy film right about fishing damaging oceans? - BBC News
2021-04-09 (or before) in The BBCAre the activities of the fishing industry destroying the world's oceans as a new film suggests?
Marine species increasingly can’t live at equator due to global heating
2021-04-07 in The GuardianStudy suggests it is already too warm in tropics for some species to survive
How Industrial Fishing Creates More CO2 Emissions Than Air Travel
2021-03-17 in TIME MagazineA new study is the first to calculate the immense carbon toll of dragging weighted nets along the ocean floor
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Air Travel
Retailers join calls for ‘urgent’ action to restrict harmful tuna fishing methods
2021-03-09 in The Guardian‘Fish aggregating devices’ have been linked to depletion of yellowfin populations and increased bycatch in the Indian Ocean
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife | India
This Bioplastic Made From Fish Scales Just Won the James Dyson Award
2021-03-07 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineBritish product designer Lucy Hughes has invented a biodegradable plastic made from fish offcuts
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Women and Children | Sustainability | Innovation
Tax havens and global environmental degradation - Nature Ecology & Evolution
2021-03-02 (or before) in NatureAnalysis from global fisheries and the Brazilian Amazon elaborates the links between financial flows through tax havens and environmental degradation.
Extinction: Freshwater fish in 'catastrophic' decline - BBC News
2021-02-23 (or before) in The BBCNumbers are plunging due to pollution, unsustainable fishing and the draining of rivers.
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Extinction
Magnets, vacuums and tiny nets: the new fight against microplastics
2021-02-18 in The GuardianTiny plastics are turning up in the air, our drinking water and our placentas. Here’s how innovators are handling the crisis
Tagged under: Microplastics and Nanoplastics | Oceans | Fish | Wildlife | Innovation
'Hedge trimmer' fish facing global extinction - BBC News
2021-02-12 (or before) in The BBCThese extraordinary fish, which are a type of ray, are vanishing in many countries due to overfishing.
Tagged under: Fish | Extinction
Only a third of UK’s key fish populations are not overfished
2021-01-22 in The GuardianFirst post-Brexit audit finds of the top 10 UK stocks, only three are in ‘a healthy state’
EU set to miss targets on sustainability after agreeing fishing quotas
2020-12-17 in The GuardianMember states blame uncertainty over Brexit as reason for breach of next year’s limits
Tagged under: Fish | Sustainability
Vast majority of Europe's key habitats in poor or bad condition – report
2020-10-19 in The GuardianState of Nature in the EU survey finds only a quarter of species have good conservation status
Tagged under: Farming | Birds | Fish | Wildlife | Trees
MPs reject attempts to strengthen post-Brexit fishing protections
2020-10-13 in The GuardianFisheries bill amendments on sustainable quotas and banning of supertrawlers defeated
Revealed: 97% of UK marine protected areas subject to bottom-trawling
2020-10-09 in The GuardianVessels spent 200,000 hours in 2019 bottom trawling or dredging the seabed in protected areas set up to safeguard vital ecosystems
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Wildlife
Israel fish deaths linked to rapid warming of seas
2020-09-21 in The GuardianBacterial infection alongside quick rise in marine temperature may have triggered mortality, suggests study
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Israel
'It's terrifying': can anyone stop China's vast armada of fishing boats?
2020-08-25 in The GuardianEcuador stood up for the Galápagos, but other countries don’t stand a chance against the 17,000-strong distant-water fleet
Tagged under: Pacific Ocean | Fish | Wildlife
College fined £50,000 for polluting stream causing deaths of 1,500 fish
2020-08-24 (or before) in Brighton ArgusAN agricultural college has been fined £50,000 for polluting a stream, causing the deaths of more than 1,500 fish, according to the Environment…
Tagged under: Fish
Alarm over discovery of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels near Galápagos Islands
2020-07-28 in The GuardianThe fleet, found just outside a protected zone, raises the prospect of damage to the marine ecosystem
Migratory river fish populations plunge 76% in past 50 years
2020-07-27 in The GuardianDecline in species such as salmon harms entire ecosystems and livelihoods, say researchers
Tagged under: Oceans | Fish | Rivers | Salmon | Wildlife
Supertrawlers ‘making a mockery’ of UK’s protected seas
2020-06-11 in The GuardianVast vessels spent almost 3,000 hours fishing in officially protected areas in 2019
These three post-Brexit bills bulldoze a hole through environmental protections | Fiona Harvey
2020-02-12 in The GuardianWildlife, air quality and fish stocks are all at risk, says Guardian journalist Fiona Harvey
Tagged under: Farming | Fish | Wildlife
Global economic growth will take big hit due to loss of nature
2020-02-12 by Fiona Harvey in The GuardianDamage to environment could wipe £368bn a year from growth by 2050 and UK will be hard hit, WWF warns
Tagged under: Animal Populations | Biodiversity Loss | Natural World | Economics | GDP | Fish | Economic Growth | Trees
Race to exploit the world’s seabed set to wreak havoc on marine life
2020-01-25 in The GuardianNew research warns that ‘blue acceleration’ – a global goldrush to claim the ocean floor – is already impacting on the environment.
Fisheries management is actually working, global analysis shows
2020-01-22 (or before) in University of WashingtonNearly half of the fish caught worldwide are from stocks that are scientifically monitored and, on average, are increasing in abundance. Effective management appears to be the main reason these stocks...
Tagged under: Fish | Washington State
Patrick Moore
2020-01-20 (or before) by in DeSmogPatrick Moore Credentials Honorary Doctorate of Science, North Carolina State University (2005). [1] Ph.D., Forestry*, University of British Columbia (1974). [1], [97] Honors B.Sc. in Forest Biology, University of British Columbia. [1] *Note: Patrick Moore has listed himself with a “Ph.D. in Ecology, Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia” in his profile at EcoSense and at the Heartland Institute, […]
EU ministers opt to continue overfishing, despite 2020 deadline
2019-12-18 in The GuardianGovernments accused of ‘betrayal’ for setting quotas to miss sustainability targets
Tagged under: Fish | European Union | Wildlife | Sustainability
Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise - BBC News
2019-12-07 in The BBCA warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Fish
Oceans losing oxygen at unprecedented rate, experts warn
2019-12-07 in The GuardianSharks, tuna, marlin and other large fish at risk from spread of ‘dead zones’, say scientists
Tagged under: Oceans | Climate Change | Fish | Wildlife
Fears as supertrawler fishes in protected marine zone off Sussex coast
2019-11-01 (or before) in Brighton ArgusA SUPERTRAWLER fished in a conservation zone off the Sussex coast, GPS data has revealed.
Tagged under: Fish
Fishery collapse ‘confirms Silent Spring pesticide prophecy'
2019-10-31 in The GuardianCommon pesticides found to starve fish ‘astoundingly fast’ by killing aquatic insects
Tagged under: Farming | Insect Populations | Fish | Pesticides | Wildlife | Insects | Collapse
Climate havoc wipes out coastal kelp as SF Bay’s native fish species die off
2019-10-23 (or before) by in San Francisco ChronicleClimate havoc is wiping out the California coast’s kelp, an important food source for...
Tagged under: Fish | Rivers | Wildlife | California | El Niño
UK needs sustainability act to avert economic collapse, says IPPR
2019-08-01 in The GuardianThinktank says country must focus on building abundance to avoid 2008-style financial crisis
Tagged under: Economics | Greenhouse Gases | Fish | Wildlife | Collapse | Sustainability
Mutilated dolphins wash up on French coast in record numbers
2019-03-31 in The GuardianActivists say 1,100 dolphins found since January - but real figure may be 10 times higher
Tagged under: Activism | France | Fish | Whales and Dolphins | Wildlife
Two-Thirds Of The World's Seafood Is Over-Fished -- Here's How You Can Help
2019-03-30 (or before) by in ForbesTagged under: Fish | Sustainability
She trolled Trump, but can she lead a green wave across Europe?
2018-11-24 in The GuardianSwedish minister Isabella Lövin found fame in a jibe aimed at the White House. Now she aims for change beyond Twitter
Tagged under: Donald Trump | Climate Change | Fish
On the wrong track: ocean acidification attracts larval fish to irrelevant environmental cues - Scientific Reports
2018-04-11 in NaturePopulation replenishment of marine life largely depends on successful dispersal of larvae to suitable adult habitat. Ocean acidification alters behavioural responses to physical and chemical cues in marine animals, including the maladaptive deterrence of settlement-stage larval fish to odours of preferred habitat and attraction to odours of non-preferred habitat. However, sensory compensation may allow fish to use alternative settlement cues such as sound. We show that future ocean acidification reverses the attraction of larval fish (barramundi) to their preferred settlement sounds (tropical estuarine mangroves). Instead, acidi...
Tagged under: Fish | Ocean Acidification | Oceans
World's deepest lake crippled by putrid algae, poaching and pollution
2017-10-19 in The GuardianLake Baikal in Siberia holds one fifth of the world’s unfrozen fresh water, but its precious fish stocks are disappearing
Tagged under: Fish | Wildlife | Russia
The Decline of the Firth of Clyde | British Sea Fishing
2014-06-13 in Welcome to British Sea FishingThe Firth of Clyde is a semi-enclosed expanse of water located on the west coast of Scotland.
Tagged under: Fish
Collapse of the Grand Banks Cod Fishery | British Sea Fishing
2012-07-18 in Welcome to British Sea FishingIn the 1950s the Grand Banks fisheries were subjected to their most intensive fishing ever.
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