by faster | Nov 17, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Natural History Museum DATE: November 17, 2020 SNIP: Some fishermen targeting tuna, swordfish and halibut in the southwest Atlantic are cutting the beaks off live albatrosses to free them from hooks, before tossing the birds back into the ocean to die. The...
by faster | Aug 6, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: August 6, 2020 SNIP: Jonathan Green had been tracking a whale shark named Hope across the eastern Pacific for 280 days when the satellite transmissions from a GPS tag on her dorsal fin abruptly stopped. It was not unusual for the GPS signal...
by faster | Jun 11, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: June 11, 2020 SNIP: Supertrawlers spent almost 3,000 hours fishing in UK marine protected areas in 2019, making “a mockery of the word ‘protected’,” according to campaigners. Supertrawlers are those over 100 metres in length and can catch...
by faster | Jun 5, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: National Geographic DATE: June 5, 2020 SNIP: President Trump vowed Friday to open the nation’s only national monument in the Atlantic Ocean to commercial fishing, saying he was giving Maine back part of its history and the fishermen their industry. He signed a...
by faster | Dec 19, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Oxpeckers DATE: December 19, 2019 SNIP: Every night dozens of wooden boats loaded with fishing equipment pass under the Punta Penna bridge and into the protected waters of the Mar Piccolo, a unique saltwater lagoon in the southern Italian port city of Taranto....
