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No, it’s not because we are faced with a similar perception that the east coast of the United States is inundated by too many sharks running around eating people (which we are not), but for the fact that NOAA’s National Marine Fishery Service (NMF
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The sighting was made on August 24th, when Professor Russell Wynn, a Senior Research Scientist from the National Oceanography Centre {NOC), was undertaking a marine mammal survey and observing some fin whales, while on board the RRS James Cook<
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Blue and fin whales are common inhabitants of the Southern California Bight, but little is known about their use of the area.
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The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill that could make it illegal to buy or sell shark fin in Texas.
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The Cetacean Free and Safe Passage resolution outlines the ills of captivity and states that these magnificent beings ought to be protected in their environment, and resolves:
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The Vancouver Park Board has unanimously voted to allow the aquarium be allowed to keep cetaceans in captivity, but ordered an end to the breeding of most whales and dolphins.
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The US National Marine Fisheries Service has listed four populations of scalloped hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, under the American Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The investigation started after the FWC received several complaints that shark feeding was taking place off the coast of Palm Beach County during dive charter trips.
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Speaking on the sidelines of a World Trade Organization appeal hearing on the EU ban on the import and sale of seal products, Canadian Environment Minister Leonoa Aglukkaq condemned opponents of hunting.”
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There are 85 U.S. species of fish listed as endangered and 71 listed as threatened, according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.
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The research was carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Shark Specialist Group (SSG) co-chaired by Nick Dulvy of Simon Fraser University.
For the first time, American Samoa has banned the removal of sea cucumbers after fisheries officials reported reefs being stripped bare of the species.
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Plans to create an artificial marine enclosure stocked with wild-caught whale sharks off the Kenya coast have been rejected by the government.
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Following a public outcry, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that it has denied the Georgia Aquarium's request for a permit to import 18 beluga whales from Russia.
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Namena Reserve, a 60 square kilometers (23-square-mile) reserve was designated in 1997 off the southern coast of Vanua Levu, Fiji's second largest island.
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A generalist apex predator, the dusky shark can be found from the coast to the outer continental shelf and adjacent pelagic waters, and has been recorded from a depth of 400 m (1,300 ft).
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