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Many shark species make their homes in waters around the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Read moreIsabelle Côté, a Simon Fraser University professor of marine ecology and conservation, has co-authored a new study that finds little would be lost by eliminating high seas fishing.
Read moreAbout 50 baleen whales live in an underwater canyon off the Florida Panhandle, making them the only resident baleen whales in the Gulf of Mexico, have long been classified as Bryde's whales Several other baleen species visit the Gulf, but this gr
Read moreThe policy allowing for the culling of any sharks longer than 3m was introduced after seven lethal shark attacks in three years off West Australian beaches.
Read moreTo better understand where important whale habitat and shipping lanes overlap along the U.S. West Coast, scientists attached satellite tags to 171 whales off the coast of California during summer and early fall from 1993 to 2008.
Read moreSituated in Argentina’s Patagonia region, the rugged Peninsula Valdés in Chubut Province is teeming with wildlife.
Read moreAt its recent annual meeting in Doha, UNESCO is giving Australia until February 1st to prove it is looking after the Great Barrier Reef.
Read moreTourism authorities in New Caledonia have announced the establishment of the world’s largest nature reserve as a historic moment for sustainable tourism.
Read moreA project conducted by researchers from Denmark's Technical University showed that 18 hectares of blue mussels in Skive Fjord reduced the levels of algae low enough to prevent oxygen depletion.
Read moreThese common, daily occurrences are a direct result of the commercial fishing industry and actually pose a greater threat to our oceans than the aforementioned “sensationalized” activities.
Read moreThe vote also secures, for the first time, a legally binding commitment to fishing at sustainable levels. This will ensure annual quotas will be underpinned by scientific advice, to achieve healthy fish stocks and a prosperous fishing industry. Both the legal commitment to fishing sustainably and the new regional management of countries’ fisheries came into force on 1 January 2014.
Throwing away fish will no longer be tolerated. The ban on discards is a vital accomplishment which will transform the way the EU seas are fished and help continue to fish sustainably for decades to come.
Read moreThe Government has decided to ban the practice and tightened the timetable for eradicating shark finning in New Zealand waters. The first tranche of species will be covered by the ban in October 2014, with a second tranche a year later.
Read moreIt is the phrase that Scuba Junkie Mabul Resort on the east coast of Borneo has been using over the last seven years when talking passionately about the area in which they take people diving on a daily basis, and about the sharks that they have be
Read moreThe reefs of the park host an exceptionally healthy marine ecosystem. When visiting the dive sites you will witness lush coral forest with abundant fish populations.
Read moreThe new rules apply in the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area, which is about 147 miles from Upolu Point, North Kohala to Ka Lae, Kau. The rules:
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