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'Illegal fishing threatens our children's future'
2016-07-08 14:02:03| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
West Africa's local fishermen are losing out to illegal foreign trawlers.
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Scotland's fishing industry welcomes decision to leave the EU
2016-06-29 12:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Scottish fishermens representatives were adamant on Tuesday that Brexit would be good news for the 5,000 strong fleet, despite warnings that the uncertainty surrounding the UKs departure from the EU could hurt fisheries. Bertie Armstrong, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermens Federation, said that leaving the EU would give fleets the ability to recover proper, sustainable, rational stewardship through our own exclusive economic zone for fisheries, comparing the situation with Norway...
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Crack down on illegal fishing to protect millions of workers in W.Africa
2016-06-29 00:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Foreign trawlers venture into coastal areas, exhausting local stocks, often illegally, and forcing locals further out to sea to find fish West Africa nations must crack down on foreign fleets fishing illegally off its Atlantic coastline and build up their fisheries to protect the livelihoods of millions of people, a leading thinktank said on Wednesday. Overfishing by foreign vessels is driving many species towards extinction and destroying the livelihoods of fishing communities in countries such...
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Rescuers Try to Save Giant Blue Whale Trapped in Fishing Gear
2016-06-28 23:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Rescuers Try to Save Giant Blue Whale Trapped in Fishing Gear Whale watchers found an 80-foot cetacean in distress off the California coast. Saving it has proven tricky. Watch: A blue whale tangled in fishing gear struggles off California. A first-of-its-kind rescue operation resumed today off the coast of Southern California as crews attempt to disentangle an 80-foot-long (24 meter) blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) from crab trap lines. The entangled...
BP Oil Spill Cost Fishing Industry At Least $94.7 Million in 2010
2016-06-28 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times-Picayune: The BP oil disaster cost the Gulf of Mexico's commercial fishing industry $94.7 million to $1.6 billion and anywhere from 740 to 9,315 jobs in the first eight months, according to a new study by the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The $355,888 study measured the effect of the Macondo well blowout from May through December 2010, the same period of time that is being used to calculate claims being paid to fishers under a 2012 court-approved settlement agreement between private parties and BP....
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