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Fish As Food: A Love Affair, Issues Included

Dr. Daniel Pauly | Posted 11.12.2009 | 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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Conservative Hunters And Fishermen Back Climate Change Legislation

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Wildlife Federation, Fishing, Hunting, Climate Change Bill, Lobbying, Hunters Climate Change, Fishing Climate Change, Hunting Climate Change, Politics News

Hunters and fishers, afraid that global warming could hamper their favorite pastime, have stepped into the lobbying fray for climate change legislatio...

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Turning the Tide for Seafood

Julie Packard | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Seafood, Healthy Seafood, Ocean-Friendly Seafood, Ocean, Oceans, Fish, Fishing, Sustainable Seafood, Aquaculture, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Seafood Watch, Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, Julie Packard, Seafood Report, Super Green Seafood, Super Green List, Celebrity Chef, Celebrity Chefs, Bycatch, Overfishing, Turning the Tide, Green News
Julie Packard

Ocean life is today threatened as never before. Human activities are taking their toll, and nothing exacts a greater price than the industrial scope and scale of fishing to feed our growing appetite for seafood.

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The EU Is Cracking Down On "Ruthless" Overfishing Of Cod, But Not Threatened Bluefin

AP | RAF CASERT | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Fishing, Bluefin, Sustainable Seafood, Overfishing, Bluefin Tuna, Cod, Food Politics, Green News

BRUSSELS — Cod is slipping closer to disappearing from key European fishing grounds, officials warned Friday, saying that only steep catch cuts ...

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Hannity's Central Valley -- the Facts That Hannity Forgot

Doug Obegi | Posted 09.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Salmon, Deltasmelt, Drought, California, Waterprogram, Water, Delta, Fishing, Hannity, Central Valley, Media News
Doug Obegi

In Hannity's upside down world where facts are forgotten, we get to hear a member of Congress complain how environmentalists are "radical" for requiring the state to comply with the law.

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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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Seafood Crisis: A vital conversation with Jean-Michel Cousteau.

Trey Borzillieri | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Orcas, Toxic Flame Retardants, Eating Fish, Fishing, Blue Fin Tuna, Farm-Raised-Seafood, Call of the Killer Whale, Ocean Futures Society, Fish Farming, Sustainable Seafood, Canned Seafood, Shopping for Seafood, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Sushi, Seafood, Monterey Aquarium Seafood Watch, Green News
Trey Borzillieri

"We stopped hunting on land and became farmers," said Cousteau. "We have to do the same thing as far as the ocean is concerned."

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US Takes The Lead On Protecting Arctic Fisheries

nytimes.com | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: Fishing, Us Fisheries, Arctic Fishing, Overfishing, Global Warming, Climate Change, Commerical Fishing, Green News

This was also the first time the United States shut down a fishery because of climate change rather than overfishing. Mr. Locke's objective is to buy ...

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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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Will We Protect Our Majestic 23,000 Square Mile Deep-Sea Coral Reef?

Yahoo! News | BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Coral Reef Protection, Fishing, Oceans, Ocean Protection, Coral Reef, Cape Canaveral, Green News

FIFTY MILES OFF CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Deep beneath the crystalline blue surface of the Atlantic Ocean off the southeastern U.S. lies a virtual rain f...

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Unearthed Film Footage From Secret Sports Summit Reveals How Race and Sports Play Out (VIDEO)

Paul Mecurio | Posted 09.14.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Auto Racing, Steroids, Marathon, Luge, Logos, Race, Chinese, Tennis, African American, History, Figure Skating, Mary Carillo, Boxers, Gymnastics, Black, Boxing, Women, Baseball, Japanese, Football, Hispanic, Quarterback, Kenyans, Sports Writing, Basketball, Hockey, Native American Indian, Track, Racing, Running, Fishing, Kenya, Comedy News
Paul Mecurio

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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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UK Fishermen Mourn Celebrity Fish Benson's Passing

AP | RAPHAEL G. SATTER | Posted 09.03.2009 | World

Read More: Animals, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, England, Fish, Carp, United Kingdom, Fishing, Fishermen, Uk Fishermen, Celebrity Carp, Bluebell Lakes, Benson, World News

LONDON — She was big. She was beautiful. And boy was she popular with the fishermen. The death of Benson, the monster carp, has sent grief ripp...

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The Cove: Why Is the Japanese Government Hell-Bent on Killing Dolphins?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Taiji, International Whaling Commission, Dolphins in Captivity, Dolphin Hunting, Dolphin Killing, Save Japan's Dolphins, Whaling, The Cove, Flippertv, Hayden Panettiere Dolphins, Flipper, Fishing, Illegal-Fishing, Overfishing, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Filmmakers can't really figure out why Japanese fishermen and the Japanese government are still hell-bent on killing dolphins.

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Hard Times Driving More People In Michigan To Fish For Food

Michigan Messenger | Eartha Jane Melzer | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Food, Fishing, Recession, Michigan, Fish, Business News

Despite health deptartment warnings that many Michigan fish are contaminated with mercury, PCBs, dioxin and other chemicals, more people are fishing i...

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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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Iceland EU Application Hinges On Fishing

AP | KARL RITTER | Posted 08.23.2009 | World

Read More: Iceland, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Iceland European Union, Iceland Eu Bid, Iceland European Union Bid, Iceland Eu Application, Iceland European Union Application, Fishing, Iceland Fishing, World News

STOCKHOLM — Iceland formally applied Thursday to join the European Union but said it would not accept a "rotten deal" for its fishing industry, ...

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Day 36 of Algalita's Oceanographic Research Vessel Expedition: A Letter From Captain Charles Moore

Laurie David | Posted 08.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Captain Moore, Eastern Pacific Garbage Patch, International Dateline, Captain-Moore, Deep Sea, Fish, School of Fish, Fishing, Pacific Gyre, Green News
Laurie David

The schooling fish in the deep ocean are practically gone. We have only caught one tuna in over a month of fishing.

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Katy Hall

Ted Danson Hopes Jellyfish Burgers Aren't On 'The End Of The Line'

HuffingtonPost.com | Katy Hall | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ted Danson, Nobu, Fish, January Jones, Sustainable Fishing, The-End-of-the-Line, Kate Walsh, Fishing, Jeremy Piven, Amber Valetta, Film, Nobu Bluefin Tuna, Entertainment News

Ted Danson narrates a new documentary that reveals an inconvenient truth about our love affair with seafood: if unsustainable fishing practices contin...

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Ted Danson Hopes Jellyfish Burgers Aren't On 'The End Of The Line'

Katy Hall | Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Ted Danson, Nobu, Fish, January Jones, Sustainable Fishing, Kate Walsh, The-End-of-the-Line, Fishing, Jeremy Piven, Amber Valetta, Film, Nobu Bluefin Tuna, Entertainment News
Katy Hall

Ted Danson narrates a new doc that reveals an inconvenient truth about our love of seafood: if unsustainable fishing practices continue, we could see the collapse of the world's fisheries by 2048.

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1 Fish, 2 Fish, Now There's No Fish

Sarah Newman | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, World Oceans Day, Over-Fishing, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Takepart, Monterey Bay Seafood Watch, Fishing, Tuna, Green News
Sarah Newman

We mine the depths of our polluted oceans for food. We're fishing and consuming unsustainable amounts of seafood using irresponsible practices.

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Could We Be the Generation that Runs out of Fish?

Johann Hari | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: The End of the Line, Nobu, Fish, Sustainable Fishing, Fish Extinction, Fishing, Bluefin Tuna, Green News
Johann Hari

In my parents' lifetime, we have killed 90 percent of the world's fish. In my lifetime, we will finish off the rest -- unless we change our ways, fast.

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A Sea Change in the Mid-Atlantic -- Many Hands Makes Light Work

Sarah Chasis | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Governor O'Malley, Governor Markell, Governor Kaine, Marco, Governor Paterson, Delaware, Maryland, Offshore Wind, Shipping, Secretary Salazar, New York, Offshore Renewables, Virginia, New Jersey, Secretary of Interior, Governor Corzine, Fishing, Mid-Atlantic, Oceans, Atlantic Ocean, Mid-Atlanticregionalcouncilonoceans, Green News
Sarah Chasis

Today at noon I will witness the dawning of an important new council dedicated to protecting our precious and threatened Atlantic Ocean: the Governors' Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on Oceans.

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Mid-Atlantic Governors to Sign Landmark Agreement to Protect Ocean

Sarah Chasis | Posted 06.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Mid-Atlantic, Shipping, Virginia, Delaware, Fishing, Oceans, Marco, Maryland, Wind Power, Governor O'Malley, Governor Markell, Governor Kaine, Governor Paterson, Offshore Wind, Secretary Salazar, New York, Offshore Renewables, New Jersey, Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on Oceans, Secretary of Interior, Governor Corzine, Atlantic Ocean, Green News
Sarah Chasis

Our oceans don't recognize borders. That's why it's so significant that these five Governors will agree to reach across state lines to protect them.

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Can Aggressive Fishing SAVE Bluefin Tuna? (VIDEO)

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Endangered Species, Tuna, Fishing, Bluefin Tuna, Fish, Green News

This is just about as counter intuitive as they come -- fishermen are trying to catch as many bluefin tuna as possible, in order to throw them back. ...

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