Fisheries & Oceans

The Ministry of Fisheries has today opened public consultation on options for managing the impacts on fishing from set nets on Maui’s and Hector’s dolphins in two areas where the Minister has been asked to reconsider previous decisions as a result of a High Court ruling.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, is intricately linked to global warming. The largest store of CO2 is the world's oceans. How the oceans sequester or release CO2 to or from the atmosphere is important to understand as mankind alters Earth's climate with the burning of fossil fuels. A new report from researchers at the University of California, Davis offers clues on how that mechanism ...

North Carolina Marine Fisheries has decided to tidy up state fishing rules and will take public comment on changes now proposed. Proposed new rules announced this week are aimed at reorganizing the fisheries rulebook by removing repetitive or...

Should fisheries be closed during breeding time to allow stocks to reach more sustainable levels?

Tideland News Writer Three widely divergent members of a new N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission sea turtle advisory committee this week expressed strong hope – even optimism – that a consensus can eventually be reached to better protect turtles and allow the commercial fishing industry to thrive.

Taiwan plans to set up a marine national park in the middle of one of its largest fishing grounds despite opposition from fishermen who depend on the area for their livelihood, an official said Monday.

Ngati Kuri Iwi in the Far North has been approved as a Mandated Iwi Organisation (MIO) by Te Ohu Kaimoana (Maori Fisheries Trust).

Reefs everywhere are under pressure from rising sea temperatures, ocean acidification, coastal pollution and physical damage.

Tideland News Writer Three widely divergent members of a new N.C. Marine Fisheries Commission sea turtle advisory committee this week expressed strong hope – even optimism – that a consensus can eventually be reached to better protect turtles and allow the commercial fishing industry to thrive.

Reports of a large return of Fraser River sockeye started coming in three weeks ago but the industry was forced to sit on the sidelines as the Department of Fisheries and Oceans refused to allow a fishery, says Conservative MP John Cummins

By TOM HENRY BLADE STAFF WRITER After years of recovery, Lake Erie is sick again. Biologists such as Roger Knight, who manages Ohio's Lake Erie fisheries program, are drawing correlations between algae-induced oxygen losses and below-average walleye hatches. Walleye are the backbone of the Great Lakes region's $7 billion fishery, which lives and dies with what happens in Lake Erie's western ...

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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is trying to get to the bottom of a shark mutilation in Bay Roberts. Fishery officers are asking anyone who may have information to contact the Bay Roberts office. It started Wednesday, when the shark tried to beach itself in the bay near the community.

New Delhi, Aug 27 : The Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute (CIFRI), which was entrusted to make a study on the assessment of fisheries regarding water quality in Ganga and Jamuna rivers has submitted its final report to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB)in April 2010, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.

TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 27, 2010) - Today WWF-Canada congratulates the Inuvialuit and the Government of Canada in taking an important step in developing an Integrated Oceans Management Plan for the Beaufort Sea.

LONG BRANCH — Zebra’s 17th annual Oceans of Rhythm Festival will be held Saturday, Aug. 28, at Jerry Morgan Park and the Great Lawn in Long Branch. This year’s theme is “In 2010, Let’s Do it Again: Back to Roots and Culture!” read more

by Elaine Wheat

TUKTOYAKTUK, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES--(Marketwire - Aug. 27, 2010) - The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today announced her support for the Integrated Oceans Management Plan for the Beaufort Sea. The Plan, which is the result of collaboration among many interests, is a major strategy for the management of ocean resources in Canada's Arctic. It is one of the concrete steps ...

The fossil record from oceans around New Zealand shows a sudden discharge of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the end of the last ice age, raising the possibility that a similar process may occur as a result of global warming, researchers say

A forecast for large numbers of returning coho salmon will allow anglers to harvest wild coho in three fisheries along the Oregon coast beginning Sept. 1 and Oct. 1.