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NEWS ABOUT: fishery

fishery stories: 8 news summaries

'Makeovers' Spell Doom
for Oceans' Ugliest Fish

Even the once-shunned are now overfished

Jul 31, 09 6:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Don't like the sound of slimefish fillets? How about some orange roughy instead? Efforts to "rebrand" ugly, unpopular types of fish to make them more palatable to consumers have been successful—too successful, the Washington Post reports. Many species once considered "trash fish" have become dangerously depleted... More »

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fish • marine life • overfishing • fishery • fishermen

Seal Feasts at Fish Hatchery After 2-Mile Hike

Cape Cod installation now missing an unspecified amount of trout

Jan 7, 09 12:09 PM CST
(Newser) - A daring young harbor seal found herself in a gastronomic paradise yesterday after breaking into a fish hatchery in Cape Cod, the Boston Globe reports. The team called in to remove the seal estimated it had waddled almost 2 miles over dry land to get to the hatchery, where it... More »

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fish • Cape Cod • seal pups • fishery

EU Trims
Tuna Catch,
Experts Warn:
'Not Enough'

New quotas well above sustainable limit

Nov 29, 08 2:05 AM CST
(Newser) - The European Commission completed a deal this week cutting back on the fishing of bluefin tuna, the Economist reports, but not sharply enough to save the species, scientists argue. The deal gradually reduces the legal catch from 28,500 tons this year to 19,950 tons in 2010—but conservationists... More »

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tuna • fish • fishing • European Commission • overfishing • fishery • bluefin tuna

 Bluefin Swim Toward Extinction 

Politicking produces bad management of big tuna

Nov 1, 08 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Bluefin tuna are disappearing from the Atlantic and Mediterranean because of overfishing and an ineffectual world agency that's failed in its sole mission of protecting the fish, the Economist reports. Up to 60,000 tons are hauled in each year, legally or otherwise, when the limit should long have been... More »

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Atlantic Ocean • tuna • fishing • overfishing • fishery • bluefin tuna

Cod Farmers Bet Tech Tames Finicky Fish in Fjords

Investors put millions into new attempts to raise fish in Norway

Oct 27, 08 3:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - As consumption of farmed fish reaches an all-time high, Norwegian entrepreneurs hope you'll soon pick farm-raised cod over salmon for dinner, the Wall Street Journal reports. Wild cod stocks are overfished, and the fickle ocean species is difficult to breed on farms. But improved aquaculture techniques have persuaded investors to... More »

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Norway • fish • aquaculture • fishery • cod

Banking Meltdown Driving Icelanders Back to Fishing

Financial system collapse leaves nation adrift

Oct 10, 08 5:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The collapse of its financial system has left Iceland with little left to rely on but the sea that surrounds it, writes the Wall Street Journal. With few natural resources on land, fishing was the mainstay of Icelandic life for centuries until the nation's global banking industry rapidly expanded a... More »

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fishing • Iceland • banking • Reykjavik • fishery • financial crisis

Overfishing Could Force You to Hold the Anchovies

UK conservation society puts briny salad-topper on ever-growing list of fish to avoid

Sep 4, 08 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Anchovies have made a list of "fish to avoid," the Guardian reports—and not for their salty pungency, but because overfishing has left stocks at unsustainable levels. The UK’s Marine Conservation Society—which ranks fish after assessing biology, stock status, and the impact of the farming or... More »

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fishing • North Sea • sustainability • overfishing • fishery • Marine Conservation Society • monkfish • anchovy

Glossies

 Can Fish-Hungry
 Japan Go
 Sustainable? 

Slowly, world's sushi capital seeing more eco-friendly seafood in supermarkets

Jun 26, 08 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Japan loves its fish: The island nation consumes an average of 147 pounds per person a year, compared to America’s 17. So, Samuel Fromartz wonders in Gourmet, how can Japanese fisheries continue to support supermarket fish counters as large as an entire US meat section? The answer, slowly gaining... More »

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Japan • tuna • fish • Tokyo • sushi • sustainability • fishery • Marine Stewardship Council

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