All posts tagged "Fishing"
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Ravi Mandalia | 28 October 2015
Wildlife trust ‘saddened’ as fisherman accidentally catches porbeagle shark
The Dorset Wildlife Trust has pegged the recent catching of porbeagle shark by local fisherman as an ‘unfortunate...
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Ravi Mandalia | 26 October 2015
Fisherman catches critically endangered porbeagle shark by accident
This is a shark encounter of a different kind! A fisherman in Dorset was fishing 250 metres off...
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Ravi Mandalia | 29 August 2015
Illegal fishing, mining to make sightings of rare nautilus even rarer
Nautilus are one of the rarest marine animals with their sighting considered important for the scientific community. Biologist...
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Ravi Mandalia | 5 August 2015
Fish of the future may become less catchable
Fishing over the years has got marine conservationists and researchers concerned about its possible impact on the stocks...
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Ravi Mandalia | 17 July 2015
Commercial fishing in Arctic ocean banned
In a bid to prevent unregulated commercial fishing in the high seas portion of the central Arctic Ocean,...
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Ravi Mandalia | 10 July 2015
Drastic measures required to protect seabass stocks, MCS says
Seabass has been subject to overfishing for quite a few years owing to its popularity with restaurants and...
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Ravi Mandalia | 9 July 2015
Seabird populations have declined substantially since 1950s: UBC
Marine ecosystems are highly intertwined and disturbance to just one of the species in the entire chain could...
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Ravi Mandalia | 29 June 2015
Seabirds abandoning ancestral nesting grounds in the Gulf of California
During some years over the course of last two decades warm oceanographic anomalies and fishing pressure are the...
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Ravi Mandalia | 23 April 2015
WWF pegs oceans as our assets; values them at $24 trillion
According to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), oceans are our assets and are valued at a whopping $24...
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Ravi Mandalia | 21 April 2015
Fishing significantly impacting make-up of fish population of the Great Barrier Reef
A new research by scientists at ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James...