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Two more major retailers pull orange roughy off shelves
Greenpeace says the Government must stop
fishing orange roughy, after two more major international retailers
confirmed they've dropped the fish from sale due to sustainability
concerns.
30 March 2010
Thousands of new marine species found
More than 5,000 newly discovered marine creatures are in need of environmental policies that protect vulnerable habitats, scientists in San Diego said... The findings reinforced evidence that delicate coral reefs, some of them thousands of years old, are in need of protection from deep-sea trawlers, said Jason Hall-Spencer, a marine biologist from Britain's University of Plymouth.
19 February 2010
Coral reefs being destroyed by climate change
The amazingly colourful undersea oases of life, some more than a mile down, have only just been discovered and are thought to harbour countless unknown species of fish and plant-life. But these cold water coral reefs - often growing on deep sea mountains - are falling victim to the double whammy of ocean acidification and deep sea trawling.
18 February 2010
Greenpeace supports calls to tighten bottom trawling regulations
Greenpeace is supporting calls to tighten regulations on bottom
trawling by the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation in Auckland this week.
10 November 2009
Greenpeace calls on supermarkets to stop deep sea fish sales
Several deep sea fish species are facing extinction from overfishing according to Greenpeace, who have called upon European supermarket chains to stop selling them.
6 October 2009
Aquacalypse Now
The New Republic
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries.
28 September 2009
New Marine Protected Areas Declared in Mexico
As part of World Environment Day celebrations hosted this year by Mexico, President Felipe Calderón announced the creation of three new marine protected areas, including Mexico's first deep sea marine protected area.
21 August 2009
Researchers find 4,000-year-old coral species
Deep-sea corals are the oldest living animals with a skeleton in the seas
23 March 2009
Deep-sea fish found with "transparent head"
16 March 2009
Seven new species of deep sea coral discovered
9 March 2009
FAO report on high seas bottom fisheries released
A new report, "Worlwide Review of Bottom Fisheries in the High Seas", has been released by the FAO at the meeting of the FAO Committee on Fisheries in Rome.
Scientists
Find Deep-Sea Coral Dying
During deep-sea exploration off the coast of Tasmania, a team of US and Australian
scientists has discovered a range of previously unknown sea creatures.
However, the reefs the scientists encountered appeared to be dying, something
that has happened recently to most coral deeper than 1,300 metres.
Norwegian
Coral Reefs Threatened
A Greenpeace Media Release
Marine
Invasive Species Advance 50km per Decade
A rapid, climate change-induced northern migration of invasive marine is one
of many research results announced Tues. Nov. 11 during opening day presentations
at the First World Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Ciudad de las Artes y las
Ciencias, in Valencia.
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Highlights from the Marine Census of Life
Eight years into the most comprehensive analysis of living things in the world's
oceans ever undertaken, scientists from 82 countries are giddy with excitement.
Begun in 2000, the Marine Census of Life is being carried out by more than 2,000
scientists from 82 different nations. |
