By Franklin Briceño
The Associated Press
CIUDAD PACHACUTEC, PERÚ » Walter de la Cruz scrambled down a large sand dune in the fog to reach a rock overlooking the Pacific Ocean, where he has fished for three decades. He cast a hook into the waters off Peru’s coast several times, with no luck...
By Catrin Einhorn and Fred Ramos
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As scientists planned an expedition in Mexico this fall to count one of the world’s most endangered animals, a shy porpoise called a vaquita, they dreaded the possibility that there would be none left to find. The last survey, in 20...
By Jim Robbins
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HELENA, MONT. » Few places in the world rival Montana’s fly fishing. The state’s cold, clear mountain streams are renowned for their large populations of trout, especially the rainbow and brown.
But this is a drought year, ...
By Daisy Nguyen
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO » Baby salmon are dying by the thousands in one California river, and an entire run of endangered salmon could be wiped out in another. Fishermen who make their living off adult salmon, once they enter the Pacific Ocean, are sounding the a...
By John Flesher
The Associated Press
TRAVERSE CITY, MICH. » Minnesota state Sen. Foung Hawj was never a fan of the “Asian carp” label commonly applied to four imported fish species that are wreaking havoc in the U.S. heartland, infesting numerous rivers and bearin...
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As with many other aspects of government policy, overfishing and other fishing-related environmental issues are a real problem, but it’s not clear that government intervention is the solution. Indeed, it might be one of the main drivers of overfishing...
By Marie Fazio
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A Washington state report put it bluntly: Because of the devastating effects of climate change and deteriorating habitats, several species of salmon in the Pacific Northwest are “on the brink of extinction.”
Of the 14 species of salmon and steelhead trout i...
BY JOHN BOWDEN , The Hill, 07/02/20
As many as 60 percent of the world's fish species could struggle to breed and reproduce if climate change causes the Earth to warm by 5 degrees Celsius over the next 80 years, the current projection for what will happen if greenhouse gas emissions continue ...
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GREENPEACE WARNS ABOUT ATLANTIC SHARK FISHING
LISBON, PORTUGAL » Greenpeace is warning about overfishing of endangered sharks in the North Atlantic, often by Spanish and Portuguese boats.
The group published a report Thursday arguing that tens of...
Seafood is a hot commodity, but current fishing practices are depleting ocean stocks faster than they can regenerate. A new investment guideline aims to direct governments and businesses into more sustainable practices.
With a growing list of adopters and endorsers, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)...
Peter Neill, ContributorDirector, World Ocean Observatory
China’s annual catch is estimated at some 15 million tons.
China is the largest consumer, producer, and exporter of every species caught by some 3,400 industrial fishing vessels harvesting the waters of over 90 coastal nations and the deep ...
JOAL, Senegal — Once upon a time, the seas teemed with mackerel, squid and sardines, and life was good. But now, on opposite sides of the globe, sun-creased fishermen lament as they reel in their nearly empty nets.
“Your net would be so full of fish, you could barely heave it onto the boat,” said M...
The outlook just got worse for the world’s most endangered tuna. A new assessment shows that the Pacific bluefin tuna population, estimated a few years ago to have declined by 96.4 percent from its historic, unfished size, has continued to drop.
The latest stock assessment, released April 18 b...
Opening the Our Ocean conference, host nation Chile declared a 243,630-square-mile sanctuary around Easter Island in the South Pacific off its eastern coast, marking the largest marine reserve in American waters.
According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, the designation will protect 27 endangere...
By Allie Wilkinson
More than 90 species of marine fishes in Europe’s waters are threatened with extinction, according to a report published today by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Sharks, rays, and other cartilaginous fish are at greatest risk, with about 40% f...
Shark fins worth up to $1.5m discovered after raids on nine properties in the port city of Manta
Hundreds of shark fins seized by the police in Manta, Ecuador. Photograph: Ecuador's Attorney General/AP
Police in the Ecuadorian port city of Manta say they have seized about 200,000 shark fins dest...
Over the last couple of decades, the practice of farming fish, or aquaculture, has increased exponentially. Farmed Atlantic salmon production in particular saw a more than 30-fold increase between 1987 and 2012, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This increase ...
By ROBIN MCDOWELL, MARGIE MASON and MARTHA MENDOZA Mar. 25, 2015 12:37 AM EDT
BENJINA, Indonesia (AP) — The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.
Just a few yards away, other worke...
The Burmese slaves sat on the floor and stared through the rusty bars of their locked cage, hidden on a tiny tropical island thousands of miles from home.
Just a few yards away, other workers loaded cargo ships with slave-caught seafood that clouds the supply networks of major supermarkets, restaur...
