All posts tagged "Fishing"
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...