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• Crab Season Opens with Entanglement Concerns

  By Charmaine Coimbra on January 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The commercial Dungeness crab fishery will open north of Sonoma County on Monday after several delays needed to allow the crustaceans to mature before the harvest begins. The northern season, which usually starts Dec. 1, is opening two months after… Read More ›

• Microplastics Contaminate Mussels

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “Microplastics have been found in mussels everywhere scientists have looked,” she said.

• Over 100,000 Animals Annually Caught in Ghost Gear

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 17, 2017 • ( 0 )

  Ghost gear is one of the biggest threats to marine animals, killing more than 100,000 whales, dolphins, seals and turtles and countless more smaller animals,” said Chiara Vitali, manager of the Sea Change campaign at World Animal Protection. “Yet the issue is still largely under-researched and receives little attention.”

• Marine Monuments Remain at Risk

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The three-million-acre monument was designated in September 2016 by former-president Barrack Obama under authority granted by the 1906 Antiquities Act. Since then, commercial fishing, with the exception of lobster and red crab fishing, has been banned within the monuments boundaries. 

  In Zinke’s report, he recommends the authority for regulating fishing in the area be returned to the New England Fishery Management Council, which was established under the 1976 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. 

• United Effort by 200 Countries to Halt Plastic Pollution

  By Charmaine Coimbra on December 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  NAIROBI (Reuters) – More than 200 countries signed a U.N. resolution in Nairobi on Wednesday to eliminate plastic pollution in the sea, a move some delegates hoped would pave the way to a legally binding treaty. If current pollution rates… Read More ›

• The Isle of May’s Plastic Horror Show

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 28, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Heart-breaking documentary footage of a dead whale calf has prompted a reminder that plastic pollution is a killer round shores close to home. The manager of a nature reserve in the Firth of Forth warned that the scourge highlighted by… Read More ›

• Rivers Transport Plastics to Seas

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  The equivalent of one garbage truck full of plastic waste is dumped into the world’s oceans every minute, equal to 8 million tons a year. New research suggests that 90 percent of that waste gets into the oceans through 10 major river systems.

• Right Whales in “perilous decline”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  By Adam Wagner GateHouse Media Posted Nov 24, 2017 at 10:33 AMUpdated Nov 24, 2017 at 10:33 AM One of the world’s most endangered animals used to be routinely seen off the NC coast. Not anymore. WILMINGTON — After years of steady improvement, one of the Atlantic ocean’s most at-risk… Read More ›

• No Where on Planet Free from Plastic Waste

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 16, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “Isolating plastic fibres from inside animals from nearly 11 kilometres deep (seven miles) just shows the extent of the problem. Also, the number of areas we found this in, and the thousands of kilometre distances involved shows it is not just an isolated case, this is global.”

• “Lowest numbers of cod on record”

  By Charmaine Coimbra on November 10, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  “Across the United States, changes in our climate and our oceans are having very real and profound effects on communities, businesses, and the natural resources we depend on — including our economically valuable fisheries …” declared a NOAA Fisheries webpage updated in June. “Understanding these changes and measuring their impacts is an important part of NOAA Fisheries’ mission.”

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