Tag: Fishing - Page 10
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Philippine President's Favorite Fish Faces Extinction
The lobed river mullet, Cestraeus plicatilis, is prized for its unique aroma and special taste—something that motivated former president Ferdinand Marcos to keep up to a year-long supply on hand at all times. Now, the
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Americans Reject Frankenfish
If you've been following AquaBounty's attempt to get Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its AquAdvantage genetically engineered salmon (the salmon has extra genes from Chinook salmon and an eel-like species
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Artisanal Fishermen Given Exclusive Fishing Zones in Chile to Help Rebuild Fisheries
Overfishing is (unfortunately) a perennial TreeHugger topic, but here's a new take on how to prevent it: As Physorg reports, Chile has designated exclusive fishing zones for small-scale 'artisanal' fishermen,
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Human Impacts on Deep Sea Floor Measured for First Time
We know that bottom trawling -- the practice of dragging a net across the sea floor to collect anything and everything in its path -- is incredibly destructive to ocean life. It tears apart fragile corals and habitat, and brings up more by-catch than
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New Project Restores Gulf Habitat, One Mile of Oysters At a Time
It's called the 100-1000 partnership -- 100 miles of new oyster reefs and 1,000 miles of re-planted marshlands in coastal Alabama, thanks to a coalition of non-profits, including Alabama Coastal
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Ultimate Locavorism: Ten US States Constitutionally Protect The Right To Hunt & Fish
As one commenter on this trend states, seeking constitutional protection of the right to fish and hunt seems to be something of a 'tempest in a tea pot.' PETA celebrities have Deerslayer's
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A Picture is Worth...South African Campaign For Sustainable Fisheries
Terrific ad campaign by the World Wildlife Fund in South Africa and SASSI, the South African Sustainable Seafood Foundation to encourage people to eat fish caught in an environmentally friendly manner that avoids bycatch.
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Marine Stewardship Council's Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say
A bit of a sustainable seafood smackdown is ongoing: In a new opinion piece in the journal Nature scientists from the University of British Columbia, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and other institutions have called
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Newly Discovered Wood-Eating Catfish Has Spoon-Shaped Teeth
Turns out deep sea crabs aren't the only underwater wildlife to eat wood. An Amazonian armored catfish does too. A new species with teeth shaped like spoons for scooping up wood from fallen logs
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Can Social Media Save Vaquita, the World's Rarest Porpoise? (Video)
The Vaquita porpoise may be living its last days in Mexico's Gulf of California. The demise of the species is imminent, says Chris Johnson, who's spent the last three years on a documentary, "Vaquita - Last
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Rednecks Can Be Tree Huggers (And Vice Versa)
Proper treehuggers follow Lloyd's admonition to keep living space down to just what you need to get by. The owner of the pictured "house boat," officially a member of the
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Japan's Ice Aquarium Displays Fish Frozen In Mid-Swim
What a way to explore the ocean...
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Novice Versus Nature: Digital Technology Can Worsen Odds Of Wilderness Survival
Many younger Americans, devoid of such early life experiences as one would get from Boy Scouting or hunting with experienced companions, emboldened by a
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Sylvia Earle on the Gulf Disaster and Saving the Seas (Podcast)
She's truly one of the ocean's best friends. Sylvia Earle's career--and it's an epic one-- has been all about protecting and exploring the sea she loves so deeply. Earle served as chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Fly Fishers Spread Invasive Microorganisms One Step at a Time
"If the shoe fits," the old saying goes, but for fly fishers—who prize clean, healthy, rivers and the trout that inhabit them—hearing that their boots may be responsible for spreading a virulent microorganism
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How Bad Is Overfishing & What Can We Do To Stop It?
By now you'd have to have been living on a desert island by yourself with an imaginary coconut companion to not know that overfishing is a serious problem for all the world's oceans. The good news is, though the future for fish
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Thailand Attempts to Solve Overfishing By Dumping Tanks, Trains and Trucks into Sea (Video)
Thailand has decided to dump 27 army tanks, 273 old train carts, and 198 garbage trucks into the sea. It's a whole lot of scrap metal hitting the ocean floor, but it's all in an effort to create an artificial reef to solve the problem of overfishing.
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Lobster Dieoffs Linked to Plastic Pollution, Including Bisphenol A
We know plastic pollution in the oceans is causing problems among marine life, including becoming a food source that is anything but nourishing. Plastic pieces are snapped up as food by birds, fish, turtles and other
