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By getting a better read on demand, excess fish can be returned to the sea unharmed. Last year's tsunami absolutely devastated the Japanese fishing industry, leaving fishermen without ports to sell their catch. One company's innovative method of finding replacement buyers in the wake of disaster could wind up solving an even bigger environmental issue: overfishing. 
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The unique head structures of these creatures allow them to see 360 degrees. WATCH VIDEO: Shark populations are declining worldwide. Kasey-Dee Gardner dives in for the answer.
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Chinese New Year causes shark fin feeding frenzy...
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Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous system of sea fishes with serious consequences for their survival, an international scientific team has found.
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FADs attract a lot more than just tuna. Sharks, sea turtles, rays, and dolphins are all brutally murdered for the sole purpose of getting canned tuna on the grocer's shelf.
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Until restaurants stop serving and people stop buying bluefin tuna, the fish will be at risk. (5342 signatures on petition) (RT @Ergo_Iam: Take the Pledge: Join the Bluefin Boycott.
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Dear Friend, Take action: Bad fisheries bill resurfaces; don’t let your senators be fooled! Like a predator lurking in the deep, the so-called Fishery Science Improvement Act (S. 1916), a bad fisheries bill in disguise, has surfaced in the Senate. We need your support to ensure members don’t take the bait by supporting the legislation.
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Overfishing, dam construction and climate change have caused catch levels of river herring to plunge 98 percent from pre-1970 levels.
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As a total science geek, I love the Guardian's DataBlog. But what's really great about DataBlog is the fact that they find and create visualizations of data that you don't have to be a geek to appreciate.
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Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical and overhanging sides of submarine canyons 1350 metres below the surface of the Bay of Biscay.
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Many scientists now believe that over the last 200 years, mankind’s impact on the Earth has become so powerful that we have ushered in a whole new geological age, which they call the Anthropocene, or Age of Man. Scientists say the principal agents of this change are the machinery of the industrial age and its chemical toxins. Via pdjmoo
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ST. CROIX - The U.S. Commerce Department has signed off on proposed fishing regulations setting annual catch limits for 132 species in federal Caribbean waters. The move is the final step in what has been a long and sometimes contentious process spanning years. The regulations will go into effect later this month. The new regulations are federally mandated by the Magnuson-Stevens Act and are meant to protect fish stocks in federal waters, so that the species are not fished faster than they can reproduce.
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It seems countries want to protect their own seas, while devasting others.
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Global political leaders will convene in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this June, which marks the 20th anniversary of the original UN Earth Summit, to evaluate progress towards achieving goals on sustainable development.
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Oceans cover 70% of the earth’s surface, and provide 99% of the world's living space, but mankind is slowly destroying a key source of food, the planet's thermostat and a home to millions of species.
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Our oceans are a truly wonderful place - here are a few random facts you may or may not know about them... If we are to survive as a species, we can no longer sustain extracting our precious resources to the point of extinction. The health of the planet is our health. We must change and change now. SEE MY BLOGS: CHANGE IS UPON US, AND CHANGE WE MUST http://ow.ly/8DMeG AND AN URGENT MEMO TO THE WORLD http://ow.ly/8DMjk
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Fishers harvest more than 4 billion pounds of fish from the area each year Current management and practices in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands and Gulf of Alaska are threatening North Pacific humpback and sperm whales and the western Aleutian Island sub-population of Steller sea lions. Changes are needed to the areas where commercial fishermen may fish for groundfish off Alaska's Aleutian Islands to furt (1177 signatures on petition)...
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One of the most popular New Year’s resolutions for Americans is to lose weight. But for the fish in America’s oceans, we need to resolve to help them gain weight.
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The Isle of Man government closes queenie scallop fisheries off the south of the island to protect stocks against over fishing. "For the first time in a generation we actually have fishermen working with scientists and the government, all agreeing to do things which will result in a more sustainable industry
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Planet Earth is a free magazine aimed at non-specialists with an interest in environmental science. Natural Environment Research Council
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Ocean explorer Philippe Cousteau narrates this short video about the urgent need to protect the precious and mysterious underwater canyons and seamounts off the USA Atlantic Coact
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Our emissions of carbon dioxide threaten to alter the very chemistry of sea water and change life in our oceans within the span of a single human lifetime. A...
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OCEAN ACIDIFYING: RAPIDLY RISING CO2 IN ATMOSPHERE CAUSING POTENTIAL CATASTROPHE http://sco.lt/8LsqbR
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Our oceans and ecosystems are so..ooo out of balance.
Killer whales and other ocean predators are targeting and killing the pups of a threatened northern sea lion species at an increasingly high rate, scientists warned this week.
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Critical habitat designation off Pacific coast protects feeding grounds
Amanda Jackson Carlson's curator insight,
September 24, 2013 12:09 AM
This article goes in more depth about how the leatherback is disapearing from the oceans because of humans. It also talks about the steps the US is taking to help protect their habitat.
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WASHINGTON — A long-simmering debate over federal fishing quotas and their economic impact on coastal states could reach a boiling point this year as Congress considers changes to a landmark marine conservation law. The fishing industry is pressuring Congress to ease catch limits for summer flounder, red snapper and other rebounding species, saying quotas are squeezing commercial and recreational fishing businesses and depriving coastal communities of billions in revenue.
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