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For the first time since the Los Angeles River was channelized in the 1930s, the public will be welcomed to walk, fish, and kayak on a 2.5 mile portion of the L.A. River in Elysian Valley.

A San Diego Coastkeeper app would help track human activity in marine protected areas.

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Top 25 North American Seafood Suppliers expand in different waysContinue reading the full "Top Story: Grow time" article.

Eartha, the world’s largest revolving globe, is located in the headquarters of the DeLorme Mapping Corp. in Yarmouth, Maine. The globe weighs approximately 5,600 pounds and spans 41 feet in diameter.  

Features

- Networking: Phil GibsonSenior VP, Encore Associates, San Ramon, Calif.

Opinion

- Editor's Note: Salmon: It’s on the plate

- Point of View: Lamenting the labor I love

Retail & Foodservice

- Retail Report: Salmon dollars upPromo volume accounts for one-quarter of overall sales

- What's in Store: Good to goSeafood carves a niche in prepared-meals trend

- Behind the Line: Stylish cuisineTommy Bahama mixes apparel, seafood in restaurant-retail concept

- Global Foodservice: Attainable luxuryWelshman Knowles returns home, succeeds on a shoestring

- Global Retail: Hope in horsegate?The European meat crisis could spark growth for the seafood category

Supply/trade

- Top Species: Farmed SalmonFrom farm to plate, every fish tells a story

- Trade Tracker: Frozen tilapia reaches $776 millionChina the top exporter to the U.S. market

Aquaculture

- Special Feature: Shrimp start-upNew England shrimp farmers hope to create a niche for domestic product

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The Springs fire ripped through state and national parkland, scorching at least hundreds of acres in its wake.

In Southeast Asia, the importance of fishery statistics as tool that provides the basic foundation crucial for  the formulation of national fisheries policies and national management frameworks and actions as well as basis  for understanding the status and condition of the fisheries resources, has been widely accepted.

However, as the  basic structure to facilitate the development planning and management of fisheries, the fisheries statistical items  and data set collected by countries could vary based on the priority needs and objectives of the respective  countries.

The compilation of fishery statistics in Southeast Asia has been regularly pursued by SEAFDEC from 1978  to 2007 in the form of the “Fishery Statistical Bulletin for the South China Sea Area”. Recently, SEAFDEC has  exerted efforts to initiate the revision of the statistical framework so that this could better serve as basic  requirement (minimum requirement) for compiling fisheries statistics that can be achieved by the countries in the region.

The escalating situation in fisheries statistics in the region and the new geo-political set-up of the ASEAN,  make it also necessary to revise the existing framework of the regional fishery statistics and the usage of the Bulletin in the Southeast Asian region. Thus starting in 2008, SEAFDEC has been producing the “Fishery  Statistical Bulletin of Southeast Asia”, reflecting the harmonized fisheries statistical framework and system  of the Southeast Asian region.

- Fishery Statistics in the South China Sea Area: http://fishstat.seafdec.org/statistical_bulletin/index.php

- Fishery Statistics of Southeast Asia: http://fishstat.seafdec.org/Statistics/

The new chair of the House of Representatives science committee has drafted a bill that, in effect, would replace peer review at the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a set of funding criteria chosen by Congress. For good measure, it would also set in motion a process to determine whether the same criteria should be adopted by every other federal science agency.

The Sustainable Working Waterfronts Toolkit is a web-based information portal that contains a wealth of information about the historical and current use of waterfront space, the economic value of working waterfronts, and legal, policy, and financing tools that can be used to preserve, enhance, and protect these valuable areas.

Three people died while abalone fishing along the Northern California coast over the weekend, something authorities characterized as a "very unusual occurrence." On Sunday morning, the same helicopter crew was called to Fisk Mill Cove at Salt...

With support from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Estuary Research Reserve System (NERRS), our team is working with four coastal New England communities to test a new way of building community-wide risk-management capabilities. At the heart of our strategy are games: face-to-face role-play simulations that bring mixed groups of residents together for a couple of hours to imagine what they might do to reduce climate change risks in a hypothetical community that’s a lot like theirs.

On April 3, 2013, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and a team of colleagues from around the world published a scientific paper called “A General Business Model for Marine Reserves” in the journal PLoS ONE.

At least six people have died and four are missing after a ship crashed into a control tower in the Italian port of Genoa, officials say.

Dolphin Park Shut Down Partly by Online Petition

The glow of a tradition dating back decades could soon be dimmed if air quality regulators vote to ban wood burning across miles of beaches in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Efforts by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to rebuild overfished seafood stocks off the American coast have been successful for six regional stocks, but some stocks, especially off the New England coast, have not yet responded to rebuilding efforts.

In a conference call with reporters today, NOAA unveiled its annual report on the status of stocks in American waters for 2012. A summary of the report indicates positive changes, with the total amount of stocks classified as “overfished” dropping from 21 percent of the total in 2011 to 19 percent in 2012.

In addition, said Emily Menashes, acting director of NOAA’s office of sustainable fisheries, the 2012 figures showed 90 percent of the known stocks are not listed as “subject to overfishing,” meaning on the verge of being overfished. In 2011, the NOAA could only say 86 percent of total known stocks were not subject to overfishing.

Menashes noted that six stocks — Eastern Bering Sea Southern Tanner crab; Gulf of Maine/George’s Bank Acadian redfish; Mid-Atlantic windowpane flounder; Mid-Atlantic yellowtail flounder; Washington Coast Coho salmon and South Atlantic pink shrimp — were declared officially rebuilt.

But problems remain. Menashes acknowledged that despite three of the rebuilt stocks being in New England waters, many stocks continue to struggle, including Atlantic cod, which Menashes said had shown “inadequate progress” in 2012.

“There are still some challenge areas for the northeast,” she said.

Galen Tromble, domestic fisheries division chief, in NOAA’s office of sustainable fisheries, told reporters that quotas would have to remain in place for those stocks, but NOAA will continue to evaluate its recommendations. He also said he understood how painful the quotas have been to fishermen in New England.

“There’s no question that those (quota) decreases have had an economic impact on the industry,” he said.

The Springs fire erupted before 7 a.m. off the southbound 101 freeway and burned across the Camarillo landscape, scorching 100 acres in less than an hour. By afternoon, the fire had made its way to Point Mugu State Park on a trek toward the ocean. It finally hit the coast late Thursday evening.

Cal State Channel Islands and multiple neighborhoods were evacuated as Santa Ana winds blew the flames southwest, and a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway was temporarily closed in the afternoon and again in the evening.

Cal State Channel Islands and multiple neighborhoods were evacuated as Santa Ana winds blew the flames southwest, and a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway was temporarily closed in the afternoon and again in the evening.

The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has suspended indefinitely the processing of application to import live shrimp and other susceptible crustaceans, in an effort to prevent the entry of early mortality syndrome (EMS) and other shrimp diseases into the Philippines.

Before the bulldozers arrived last June, Malibu Lagoon was a fully grown habitat for egrets, voles and tidewater gobies, studded with sycamore trees and clusters of tule reeds.

Many of the nation's 440 military bases were established in what were once sparsely populated hinterlands where soldiers trained without complaints from neighbors about the roar of warplanes and the sound of gunfire and explosions.