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WTO And the Future of Fish

Julie Packard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Monterey Bay Aquarium, World Trade Organization, Ted Danson, Climate, Julie Packard, Seafood Watch, Subsidies, Sustainable Seafood, Wto, Climate Crisis, Fisheries, Overfishing, Seafood, Oceana, Green News
Julie Packard

Solving our global fisheries crisis will require global solutions, and involvement from everyone. Making good choices about the seafood we eat is a great way for each of us to do our part.

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Fish As Food: A Love Affair, Issues Included

Dr. Daniel Pauly | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Fishery, Fish Farm, Farmed Fish, Humane Fishing, Food Politics, Fish, Food, Fishing, Fisheries, Living News
Dr. Daniel Pauly

The novelty of seafood has gradually decreased as it turned out to have health issues, legal issues and ethical issues.

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Heading to Rhode Island Tomorrow in Support of a National Oceans Policy

Sarah Chasis | Posted 09.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Ocean Policy Taskforce, Economy, Atlantic Ocean, Obama Administration, Offshore Wind, Rhode Island, Whales, Healthy Oceans Policy, Offshore Renewables, Healthy Oceans, Great Lakes, New York Obama, Marine Spatial Planning, National Oceans Policy, Oceans, Fisheries, Providence, Green News
Sarah Chasis

A national ocean policy will help New York, the East Coast and the entire country better address all of these issues that affect its ocean and its Great Lakes resources.

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Power Plants Don't Have to Suck (Literally)

Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Natural Resources, State Water Resources Control Board, Closed Cycle Cooling, Once-Through Cooling, Epa, Chesapeake Bay, Delaware River, Power Plants, Obama Administration, Lake Erie, California, Lakes, Rivers, Cooling Water Intake, Environment, Fishing, Oceans, Electric Utilities, Fisheries, Estuaries, Riverkeeper, Green News
Steve Fleischli

Collectively, the power industry sucks in approximately 80 trillion gallons of water annually to cool their equipment. In the process, they kill on a massive scale fish, larvae and other aquatic organisms.

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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 11.08.2009 | Green

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
Celia Alario

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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Lobster Wars Turn Violent In Maine

AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Lobster Wars, Maine Lobster Wars, Animals, Fisheries, Lobster, Maine, Green News

MATINICUS ISLAND, Maine — Life here is defined by the ocean. It's the ocean that feeds the livelihoods of the lobstermen. It's the ocean that di...

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Fish For Our Future

Julie Packard | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Monterey Bay Aquarium, Boris Worm, Ray Hilborn, Bill Monning, Sustainable Fishing, Seafood Watch, Oceans, Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Fisheries, Marine Protected Areas, Ocean, Over-Fishing, Ocean-Animals, Overfishing, Green News
Julie Packard

The oceans are incredibly resilient. Given a chance to recover, they can produce a remarkable abundance of marine life -- much more than we see today.

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Slow Fish on Martha's Vineyard: Uh, How Does That Work, Exactly?

Susie Middleton | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Slow Food, Sustainable Food, Menemsha, Oysters, Beef Recall, Obamas, Fisheries, Slow Fish, Martha's Vineyard, Green Living, Green News
Susie Middleton

Even if you only add one night of fish to your dinner repertoire each week, you're cutting down on your carbon footprint, adding beneficial Omega-3 fatty acids to your diet, and casting a vote against bad beef.

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Protecting the Earth's Blue Heart

Sylvia Earle | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Point Reyes Headlands, Ocean Policy Task Force, Environmental Degradation, Fish & Game Commission, Marine Life Protection Act, Farallon Islands, Sustainable Fishing, Ocean-Pollution, Obama Administration, Fishing, Oceans, Fisheries, Overfishing, Green News
Sylvia Earle

Obama's new ocean policy task force, launched in June, is exactly what is needed: a coherent national policy based on science and informed by local economic interests.

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Fresh Hope For World's Fisheries

BBC NEWS | Posted 08.31.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Fishing Study, Overfishing, Fisheries, Fish, Food Politics, Green News

There is fresh hope that the world's depleted fisheries can be saved from collapse, says a team of researchers. They said that efforts introduced t...

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Eating Fish, Eating What?

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 08.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Wild Salmon, Fish Market, Pcbs, Mercury Poisoning, Whales, Toxins, Fish Farming, Sea, Fish, Sushi, Fishing, Tuna, Fisheries, Green News
Trey Borzillieri

The average consumer is so uninformed about fish that looking through the glass case and pointing is like hitting a button on a vending machine with signage in a foreign language.

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Federal Bailout Won't Make A Dent in Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Problems

Brooke-Sidney Gavins | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Folsom Dam, Salmon, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, San-Joaquin-River, Water Recycling, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sacramento River, Red Bluff Diversion Dam, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Interior Secretary, American Rivers, Water Reuse, Ken-Salazar-Interior-Secretary, Recycling, Endangered Salmon, Environmental Defense Fund, Ken Salazar, Endangered River, Fisheries, Battle Creek Salmon Steelhead, Farming, Contra Costa, California, Contra Costa Canal, Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley, Water Scarcity, Federal Stimulus, Endangered-Fish, California's Central Valley, Ken Salazar and Interior Department, Water, Endangered Species, Endangered Species Act, Green News
Brooke-Sidney Gavins

The Delta, which provides water to nearly two-thirds of all Californians and is suffering from a three year drought, may not have a federal bailout after all.

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The LIEonization of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens

Shannyn Moore | Posted 05.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Lisa Murkowski, Ted Stevens, Alaska Senate, Fisheries, Michael Mukasey, Don Young, Senator Mark Begich, Sarah Palin, Eric Holder, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

The wrongs of the Bush DOJ do not make Ted Stevens innocent nor do they exonerate him. The attempts to make him a martyr by local right wing apologists are pathetic.

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Using Markets to Make Fisheries Sustainable

Robert Stavins | Posted 05.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Conservation, Cap and Trade, Markets, Environmental Policy, Tragedy of the Commons, ITQs, Sustainable Food, Fish, Sustainability, Sustainable Fishing, Individual Transferable Quotas, Fisheries, Seafood, Green News
Robert Stavins

What has long been considered the obvious answer to collapsing fisheries -- restrictions on fishing -- has been shown time and time again to be the wrong answer. The right answer is enlightened use of markets.

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Guaranteeing Fish To Fisherman Helps Protect Fisheries

AP | Posted 10.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Politics of Food, Fisheries, Fisherman, Fishing, Catch Quotas, Catch Guarantees, Catch Share, Green News

WASHINGTON — One way to help prevent overfishing may be to guarantee each fisherman a specified share of the catch, according to a new report. C...

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