fisheries
Time and Tuna are Running Out!
(via weblog.greenpeace.org)
Submitted by The Big-Eye on Mon, 2007-12-03 08:37. | Tags: nature | fish | fisheries | greenpeace | guam | Pacific | spirit | tuna
Commercial whaling is evil. Iceland has woken up.
(via www.environmentalgraffiti.com)
In a step greeted with relief by environmental campaigners, Iceland have announced that they will issue no new quotas for commercial whaling. Fisheries minister Einar K Guofinnsson said that “I will not issue a new quota until the market conditions for whale meat improve and permission to export whale products to Japan is secured. There is no reason to continue commercial whaling if there is no demand for the product.â€
Submitted by socialpyramid on Wed, 2007-09-05 15:13. | Tags: science | fish | fisheries | iceland | oceans | sea | sustainability | whale | whaling
The Plight of the Penguin
(via www.nature.org)
The Humboldt Penguin population has fallen by nearly half since the early 1980s and it could soon appear on the endangered species list. Find out how over fishing, pollution, coastal development, and climate change are threatening the species.
Submitted by Connell83 on Tue, 2007-08-21 17:29. | Tags: nature | animals | conservation | endangered species | environment | fisheries | Humboldt penguin | marine | mining | pollution | resource extraction | sand harvesti | science | south america | the nature conservancy | timber harvesting | urban development
