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Fishing -- Environmental aspects

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As the price of a popular New England delicacy falls, fishermen and others grow concerned

Shellfish Disease Plaguing Lobster Industry [Windows Media Player] http://www.mpbn.net/radio/mainenews/080822disease.htm Rock lobster season 'prosperous' in south http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/4675873a6568.html Gulf of Maine Research Institute: Lobster Den [Macromedia Flash Player] http://gmri.org/media/videoPage.asp?ID=18 The Lobster Institute [Real Player,...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2008/0905
Baijis, a rare Yangtze river dolphin, "now extinct"

Yangtze River Dolphin http://www.edgeofexistence.org/conservation/yangtze_river_dolphin.asp Yangtze River http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/freshwater/about_freshwater/rivers/yangtze/index.cfm Alarm sounded for Yangtze River http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3826873.stm World Conservation Union Red List of Threatened...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2007/0810
Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program

As an old saying goes, "There are only so many fish in the sea", and this is a saying that is becoming more and more true each year. With that in mind, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has developed the Seafood Watch site to help people make informed decisions about purchasing different types of seafood. The site contains sections such as "Which Seafood To Buy & Why" and "What You Can Do". In the "Which...

https://www.seafoodwatch.org:443/
New Study Documents the Dramatic Effect of Industrial Fishing across the World's Oceans

In a study published in the journal _Nature_, co-authors Ramsom Myers and Boris Worm concluded that 90 percent of the world's large fishes have disappeared from the world's oceans over the past fifty years, attributing this phenomenon to industrial fishing. Utilizing data from the past 47 years, Myers and Worm looked at the precipitous decline in the populations of species such as tuna, marlin,...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/2003/0516
Overfishing

The first is a short article from Scientific American about some recent research that identifies ten biodiversity hotspots where conservation is becoming extremely important. An opinion piece from Christian Science Monitor claims there is a need for no-take marine reserves to protect fish populations and fisheries. A page from the Pew Oceans Commission gives some information about overfishing and...

https://scout.wisc.edu/report/nsdl/ls/2002/0222
Rapid Worldwide Depletion of Predatory Fish Communities

A biology professor at Dalhousie University offers this supplement to a recent article in the journal Nature, which showed that there may be only ten percent of all large fish left in the global ocean. A three-page press release summarizes the article, outlines its implications, and calls for international collaboration to restore marine ecosystems. Additionally, the Web site provides graphical...

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12748640/