Fishing Industry

A Lifeline for Sea Life

Miyoko Sakashita | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Ocean Pollution, Sea Life, Ocean Acidification, Oceans, Pollution, Maine, Utah, Fishing Industry, Shellfish Industry, Green News

Sadly, the ocean's dark transformation has already started. Every hour, a million tons of carbon dioxide spewed from cars, factories and power plants rain down on the world's oceans.

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Better Than Mayan Calendar, and Perhaps Even Less Probable: Overfishing to End in 2012

Carl Safina | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Bycatch, Rebuilding Fisheries, Fishery Management Councils, Eric Schwaab, Fisheries Management Councils, Fisheries Rebuilding, Mayan Calendar, Coastal Communities, u.s. Overfishing, Fishing Industry, Optimum Yield, Recreational Fishing, Fish, Maximum Sustainable Yield, Noaa, Fisheries, Overfishing, Seafood, Green News

A federal law, as amended in 2007, required all U.S. fisheries to have management plans, and catch limits that would end overfishing by 2012. And look what year it is!

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One In 3 Spanish Fish Paid For With Public Money, Report Finds

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Video, Fishing Industry, Spain Fishing Industry, Spanish Fishing Industry, Spanish Fishing, Spain Fishing, Fishing, Spain Fishing Subsidies, Green News

By Kate Willson, Mar Cabra and Marcos García Rey Of The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Decades of overfishing have left Eur...

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WATCH: What's Wrong With The Tuna Industry?

Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Greenpeace Tuna, Fishing Industry, Tuna Video, Sustainability, Tuna, Oceans, Overfishing, Video, Green News

Tuna may be a cheap and tasty snack, but where it comes from is another story. Greenpeace wants consumers know to know that there's a dark side to...

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Gulf 'Dead Zone' Threatens Seafood, Tourism Industries

Mark Tercek | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: The Nature Conservancy, Fishing Industry, 2011 Floods, Dead Zone, Green News, Conservation, Gulf of Mexico, Mark Tercek, BP Oil Spill, Green News

The Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" -- an area of water where oxygen is depleted, preventing any marine life from surviving -- is now 6,765 square miles wide. That's bigger than the state of Connecticut.

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Bird Feathers For Fashion Or Fishing?

Reuters | By Laura Zuckerman | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Feathers Used in Fishing Lures, Fishing Lures, Fishing Industry, Denver News, Bird Feathers Beauty Industry, Fishing, Colorado News, Feathers for Fishing Lures, Bird Feathers Used in Fashion, Fashion Trends, High Fashion, Bird Feathers, Denver News

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - For the first time in 40 years, Philip Greenlee cannot obtain the choice feathers he ties into fishing lures to tempt tr...

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Why EPA Needs to Take Charge of Cleaning up the Chesapeake Bay

Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Farming, Fishing Industry, Water Pollution, Chesapeake Bay, Epa, Farm Bureau, Green News

Tip O'Neill (D-MA), the former Speaker of The House (1977-1987), used to say: "All politics is local." This quote screams out as a cacophony when o...

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Larger Predator Fish Rapidly Vanishing

Washington Post | Marc Kaufman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fishing Industry, Fish Farming, American Association for the Advancement of Science, UN Environment Programme, International Food Policy Research Institute, Sustainable Fishing, Overfishing, Villy Christensen, Food News

Over the past 100 years, some two-thirds of the large predator fish in the ocean have been caught and consumed by humans, and in the decades ahead the...

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Deadliest Catch Brooklyn Style: The Fish You Catch in New York City

Aram Roston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Slidepollajax, New York City-New York, Sustainable Fishing, Fishing Industry, Overfishing, New York City, New York News

It is hard to ignore the crisis that has hit the fisheries worldwide, with the warnings of doom coming fast. One grim estimate has it that seafood will disappear from the ocean by 2048.

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Carl Henric-Svanberg Says BP Cares About 'Small People'

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Payments, Small People, Claims, Fishing Industry, Oil Spill, Carl Henrik Svanberg, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Oil Spill, Bp Chairman, Cleanup, Gulf Coast, Little People, Wildlife, Green News

VENICE, La. — The "small people" of the Gulf Coast have a humongous message for oil giant BP: They're tired of the company's big-time executives...

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How The Gulf Oil Spill Will Affect Chicago Diners

Chicago News Cooperative | BEN GOLDBERGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fish Prices, Fishing Industry, Chicago Seafood, Gulf Oil, Gulf Fisherman, Fishing, Gulf Oil Spill, Oil Spill Seafood Industry, Gulf Fishing, Chicago News

On a damp morning last Friday, Maureen Fitzgerald pulled four fish out of a paper bag. "This looks beautiful," she said, pointing to the clear eyes of...

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Flood Waters Pose Yet Another Threat to Louisiana's Fishermen

Take Part | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nashville Floods, Fishing Industry, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Coast Fishing, Fishermen, Green News

But the connection between Nashville and New Orleans has gone largely unreported. The abundance of water from the floods has to eventually go somewher...

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Call for Social Networking Reports on Deepwater Horizon Oil Impacts

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

With ordinary citizens inputting real-time photos and testimony, the general public will have the opportunity to experience first hand what is really happening in the Gulf of Mexico and along its shores.

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Gulf Coast Seafood: Fishing Industry Threatened Indefinitely

AP | KEVIN McGILL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Coast Seafood, Seafood Oil, Oil Slick, Fishing Industry, Gulf of Mexico Fishing, Gulf of Mexico Seafood, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — As a giant oil slick lapped at southeastern Louisiana's ecologically sensitive coast, chefs, restaurant owners and seafood dealers...

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Defense Mobilizes Louisiana National Guard to Fight BP Oil Spill

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deputy Secretary of Interior David Hayes, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar, Bp, Louisiana, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, George W. Bush, Admiral Mike Mullen, British Petroleum, Transocean/Deepwater Horizon, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Administrator Jane Lubchenco, Carol Browner, Fishing Industry, Rear Admiral Mary Landry, Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Noaa, St. Bernard ParishGulf of Mexico, Plaquemines, Green News

The US Defense Department authorized the deployment of the Louisiana National Guard to help local communities in the cleanup and removal of oil. Whether critical habitats can be protected from contamination is the question of the hour.

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The BP Oil Spill: Spilt Milk

Matt Rigney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ecosystem Degradation, Marine Life, Fishing Industry, Bycatch, Purse Seine, Industrial Fishing, BP Oil Spill, Bottom Trawling, Green News

The destruction that has hit the Gulf of Mexico is minuscule compared to what industrial fishing does to the world's oceans every day.

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Gulf Fisherman On Oil Spill: 'Our Way Of Life Is Over. It's The End, The Apocalypse'

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill Fishing, Fishing Industry, Gulf Oil Spill Response, Bp, Green News

NEW ORLEANS — The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hittin...

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LIVEBLOG: Public Meeting on Asian Carp Threat to Great Lakes

Scott Dodd | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, White House, Natural Resources Defense Council, Asian Carp, Fishing Industry, President Obama, Lake Michigan, Chicago, OnEarth Magazine, Fish, Great Lakes, Invasive Species, Chicago News

Federal officials want to assure the public that they're serious about stopping the dreaded Asian carp from infesting the Great Lakes and destroying i...

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Alaska Fisherman Send Labor Day SOS-Call For Action to Protect Jobs, Fisheries from Climate Change's Evil Twin

Celia Alario | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alaska Commercial Fishermen, Fishing Industry, Labor Day, cop15, Climate Change, Capitol Climate Action, Ocean Acidification, Aces, Alaska, Business, Fisheries, Copenhagen, Climate Bill, Green News

More than 100 fishing boats, sail boats, skiffs and kayaks took to the waters Sunday to draw attention the threat of ocean acidification.

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