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Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes (AP)

Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi ...


The two species now endangered are the flapper skake and the blue skate

Mislabelling drives skate to brink of extinction

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A species of common skate is to become the first marine fish species to be driven to extinction by commercial fishing, due to an error of species classification 80 years ago, reveals research published today ...


Remotely Operated Vehicles and Satellite Tags Aid Turtle Studies

Remotely Operated Vehicles and Satellite Tags Aid Turtle Studies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and satellite-linked data loggers to learn more about turtle behavior in commercial fishing areas and to develop new ways to avoid catching ...


Overfishing: Are there really plenty of fish in the sea?

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Years before an economic crisis taught everyone the risks of runaway growth, marine fishermen and fishery managers were already getting a crash course.


Look-alike sturgeon may get protection

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Good news for shovelnose sturgeon may be bad news for this region's commercial fishermen, who sell them to make caviar.


Could stressed out sharks save more fish?

Could stressed out sharks save more fish? (w/ Video)

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine biology graduate student Austin Gallagher has studied the dwindling shark population around the world—from the waters of the South Pacific to those off Southern California.


West Coast fishermen embark on new wave of fishing (AP)

West Coast fishermen embark on new wave of fishing

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The West Coast groundfish fleet has struggled to stay afloat during major cutbacks to reverse long-standing problems with overfishing and to protect the seafloor from damage caused by bottom trawling ...


Report: Loggerhead turtles at risk of extinction (AP)

Study: Loggerhead turtles put at risk by fishing

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- It's a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch.


Commerce secretary approves Arctic fisheries plan

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The nation's secretary of commerce has approved a plan that would prohibit an expansion of commercial fishing in the Arctic, at least until more is known about the area.


Plan would ban U.S. commercial fishing in Arctic Ocean

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Federal fishery regulators Thursday approved an unprecedented plan to ban U.S. commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean.