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Fresh water fishing isn’t going to be the same on the Central and South Coasts for the next few years, after a bacterial outbreak has hit three Southern 
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In 2019, ADF&G predicts a total Copper River sockeye salmon harvest of 955,000, an estimate made within the range of 351,000 to 1.16 million
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Climate Change induces uncertainty.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts, Seas At Risk, Oceana and others jointly signed the letter calling for commitments which would see EU fisheries fulfill CFP targets
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They welcome the long-term progress towards more sustainable fisheries which has helped to the enhance profitability of many segments of the European fleet.
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Four months on from wild storms that swept across Tasmania, Huon Aquaculture confirms it lost 120,000 salmon when a fish pen broke apart — and now concerns are growing around secrecy in the industry and escapee fish feeding on local species.
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Boats are damaged and stones thrown as French and UK fishermen duel in the English Channel.
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150 tons of dead fish have been collected in Manatee County over the last two weeks.
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A recent study demonstrates how billions of dollars in government subsidies funds much of the reckless fishing that takes place in international waters.
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See the original paper here: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaat2504
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You may also like: DNA tests confirm southern bluefin tuna on menu in mainland China Japanese seafood distributor Kyokuyo to sell its farmed bluefin US refuses to list Pacific bluefin as endangered
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An international meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPFC) commission is expected to discuss fishing regulations on Pacific bluefin tuna, a species that has plunged to less than 10% of its original population as a result of overfishing. The meeting, which is expected to cover the long-term resource recovery goals set to be achieved by 2034, will be held for Aug. 28 in South Korea.
During the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) meeting that took place in Mexico City last month, no measures were agreed to tackle the decrease in Pacific bluefin tuna, sources that attended the meeting told Undercurrent News. Guillermo Moran, director of industry association Tunacons, had told Undercurrent that the IATTC meeting last month did not discuss bluefin tuna stocks, because "since it is a shared population", it was decided to discuss new conservation measures jointly with the Western Pacific commission at the upcoming meeting. Japan’s fisheries agency said the long-term resource recovery goals for the species set to be achieved by 2034 can be achieved if it continues with its present regulations, which aim to reduce fishing of juvenile bluefin tuna by half, Japan News reported. It claims it will be possible to achieve the long-term target of stocks of 130,000 metric tons by continuing its current regulations. It might also propose penalties against fishermen that do not respect the rules. This year Mexico and Japan exceeded the internationally-agreed limits. Japan, which has 80% of the entire fishing quota of 4,007t, exceeded it by almost 10%, attracting international criticism. At a Japanese event in Tokyo to discuss management of bluefin tuna on Aug. 8, local fishermen requested the resource management to be loosened. However, the US and other countries are against any loosening of regulations before the provisional target is met in 2024. "Japan is determined to protect fishermen, and is losing international trust as a result. In the current circumstances, there’s just no way Japan can propose things like early deregulation," said Toshio Katsukawa, an associate professor at Tokyo university of marine science and technology. Contact the reporter matilde.mereghetti@undercurrentnews.com
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The Associated Press reports that Hawaiian fishing boats rely on hundreds of undocumented workers who can't step foot on shore and aren't protected by labor laws — all thanks to a legal loophole.
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Sierra Leone was holding 11 Guineans including military personnel in custody on Wednesday following a confrontation at sea
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Another example of the prevalence of illegal fishing across national jurisdictions, this time in Africa.
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Given the dual threats of climate change and increased tourism, conservationists are attempting to gather all the data they can before it’s…
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It's the holy grail of commercial fishing: catch just the right amount of just the right size of just the right species, without damage to the physical
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Data from Cold War nuclear bomb tests help scientists accurately age whale sharks for the first time.
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Another marker of the Anthropocene...
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- U.S. commercial fishing generated more than $144 billion in sales in 2016, buoyed by growth in key species such a
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Life on the coast of Madagascar is increasingly precarious. In recent decades, the overexploitation of marine life has made it difficult for hundreds of thousands of small-scale fishers to make a living. So it’s no surprise that they are vocally opposing a new agreement to bring hundreds of additional Chinese vessels into their waters. Two […]
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New technology will use facial recognition to build individual medical records for millions of fish.
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Lots of fish have been dying these past many weeks across Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. While nothing even remotely close to the craziness along Florida's east and west coasts, the large kills in our Ormond Beach and Malibu Lagoon waterways have nevertheless caused concern.
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This is a brief run down of some of the issues surrounding the fish kills we've seen of late in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties.
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California State Parks scientists are running tests this week to determine what caused about 1,500 fish to die in Malibu Lagoon last week, but officials suspect higher-than-normal water temperatures may have played a role.
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Just to note: this is going on across the region and it is highly unlikely this has anything to do with the very successful Malibu Restoration recently completed.
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The 10th edition of Greenpeace’s Carting Away the Oceans report, released this week, found that while grocery retailers across the US have vastly improved on providing sustainable seafood, many have largely failed to take significant action on other issues pertinent to achieving sustainability in this area. While Carting Away the Oceans primarily scores retailers on their sustainable seafood efforts, this edition also examined their efforts to eliminate labor and human rights issues and plastic pollution — two other issues of grave importance to the sustainability of the industry. While the majority of retailers passed this assessment, many have significant work to do on both fronts. Via EcoVadis
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August 21, 2018 1:53 AM
Environmental repercussions of overfishing have traditionally been the focus among seafood consumers, labor practices in the seafood industry supply chains have recently emerged as the most discussed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issue plaguing the sector.
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You may also like: Green group: Memo proves law broken to allow red snapper landings Gulf of Mexico commercial fishing group lashes out at new red snapper bill Battle ensues over Trump administration’s red snapper season extension
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Three additional documents have emerged as part of the lawsuit filed against the US Commerce Department that appear to show an intent to end-run normal channels of public comment and regulated processes for regional council activities, only to serve the needs of the sportfishing industry.
The lawsuit, filed by Ocean Conservancy and the Environmental Defense Fund last July, focused on mismanagement of the Gulf Red Snapper fishery, but documents released last week show the recreational industry expects a level of allowance that flies in the face of the legal requirements of the Magnuson Stevens Act, and the processes for managing fisheries that is contained within it. The documents are part of a 70-page package submitted by the government in response to the plaintiff’s lawsuit. They show clear intent to receive special treatment when it comes to taking more of the annual catch, and broader influence on choosing who sits on the regional management councils, a process specified by the Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) which is poised for reauthorization in 2018. Moreover, in at least three instances, Department of Commerce employees, after briefing sports industry stakeholders on the requirements of MSA, go on to suggest various legislative -- not regulatory -- "fixes" for breaking the rules with the red snapper action. Indeed, the documents point to a blurred state of authorities and influence wielding between the Commerce Department and the US Congress. Whether it is a beleaguered agency's attempts to protect its standing among Gulf states or an intentional violation of the law remains unclear, but no one is disputing that the regulations within MSA are clear, and have, in the case of red snapper, been ignored. A letter to commerce secretary Wilbur Ross from Ben Speciale, president of Yamaha Marine Group, was sent on April 3, less than a week after Ross met with Speciale, Mike Nussman, Scott Deal and Pat Murray to discuss the need for a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fisheries administrator who had experience with the recreational sector. Chris Oliver was hired as head of NOAA Fisheries two and a half months later. Nussman is the president of the American Sportfishing Association, Deal is from Maverick Boats and Murray is from the Coastal Conservation Association. Ross posed questions to the group and asked them to respond later. One topic that may have been brought up -- Ross certainly raised it frequently during his confirmation hearing and in separate interviews following his confirmation -- was ways to reverse the seafood imbalance of trade.
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The shellfish should arrive in restaurants as early as Wednesday and in fish markets later this week, meaning Bay Area families can return to the tradition of celebrating Thanksgiving with platters of freshly steamed and cracked Dungeness crab. The best retail prices are expected to be $5.99 to $6.99 per pound, according to Mike Lucas, president of North Coast Fisheries, a shellfish processor and distributor in Santa Rosa. On Wednesday, the two Woodhouse locations will return to offering their “Dungeness Madness” special: a whole steamed crab with potatoes, greens and garlic bread for $20 (the price will likely rise over the weekend). After last year’s season was delayed by months because of a toxic algal bloom, the start of this year’s brought a sense of relief to those in the fishing industry. Crab boats began dropping their pots in the ocean Monday and were allowed to start pulling them up at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. At Sun Fat Seafood, a market in the Mission District, employee Hoa Kuu said he expects to have local crab in the store this weekend. There is one limit on the fishery, though, as a 60-mile stretch of the coast between Point Reyes and the Mendocino-Sonoma county line is not yet open because of sporadic domoic acid showing up in tests conducted by the California Department of Public Health.
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Florida Lionfish: Thousands turn out to hunt, grill and savor a marine invader
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Grill them suckers up!
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Asian arowana change colors, kill baby ducklings and have sold for $150,000. What's crazy is that decades ago, they were eaten for food. Voigt pegs it down to several factors: overharvesting for the food trade, habitat destruction, and the fish being a slow reproducer. The same thing could be said for a lot of species. But the Asian arowana also became a hot target for fish collectors when it appeared in the UN-administered Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna in 1975. Its protected status made some people wanted to own it. “There’s a desire to own a little piece of the wild," Voigt says.
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Wow! What a great story! I very much want to ready this book. I'm even thinking about requiring it for my Coastal Management class next fall. This really seems to pull together a great number of issues we face when managing our coastal ecosystems.
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A $5,000 reward is being offered for details leading to the arrest and conviction of three men who went on a drunken rampage in Death Valley National Park.
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More evidence that some of our species are not worthy of inclusion amongst the list of intelligent species on this planet.
Totally sick.
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