Fisheries & Oceans

Scottish fisheries minister Richard Lochhead says "if Iceland don't get their act together then they may pay the consequences" in fishing quota dispute

Japan's fisheries agency said the country is planning to host a rally for pro-whaling nations to build support for lifting a decades-old ban on commercial whale hunts.

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A unique 'natural laboratory' in the Mediterranean Sea is revealing the effects of rising carbon dioxide levels on life in the oceans. The results show a bleak future for marine life as ocean acidity rises, and suggest that similar lowering of ocean pH levels may have been responsible for massive extinctions in the past.

Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced that effective August 23 at 12:01 a.m., until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, September 15, the daily limit for sockeye salmon has been decrease to one per day, from two per day in the mainstem waters of the Skeena River from the mouth upstream to a point immediately above the confluence with the Babine River.

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

I wanted to bring home one thing from our week at the beach: a perfect sand dollar.

OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 08/24/10) - STATEMENT BY GAIL SHEA MINISTER OF FISHERIES AND OCEANS The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today issued the following statement: 2010 is turning out to be a banner year for Fraser River sockeye salmon, with this year's return currently set at just over 25 million fish, one of the highest returns in the last hundred years ...

Facing one of the most complex rescue operations ever attempted, Chile is looking to space and the ocean depths for survival tips to help 33 miners endure months underground awaiting rescue.

Two projects funded by Fisheries and Oceans Canada target two of the most contentious issues in the aquaculture industry sea lice treatment and closed containment pens.

Google has updated its Google Earth application for the Android platform to include the world's oceans.

( University of Cambridge ) The University of Cambridge's "Naked Scientists" are launching a new series of podcasts this week entitled "Naked Oceans."

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

There is a message you hear often in Japan: whaling (and dolphin-hunting) is a part of Japanese tradition, and no amount of foreign pressure is going to change that.

Steve Heimel, APRN Anchorage Friday, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council weighed in behind an industry plan to curtail the Atka Mackerel and Pacific Cod fisheries in areas of the Western Aleutians where Steller Sea Lions are not recovering. The industry plan is less rest restrictive than the plan the National Marine Fisheries Service put [...]

A 14-year-old Dutch sailor aiming to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world is sailing in fine weather toward the Canary Islands off northwest Africa, her manager said Monday.

Federal appeals panel rebuffs Central Valley irrigators' efforts to relax U.S. protections on the Pacific salmon. A federal appeals court panel has ruled that wild steelhead remain an endangered species and rebuffed Central Valley irrigators' efforts to relax federal government protections on the Pacific salmon.

A dead baby minke whale is found washed up on a remote beach by a holiday park on the Llyn Peninsula. Gwynedd

Two unidentified suspects, riding in tandem, shot the chief quarantine officer of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Region 12 at about 1:14 a.m. on Sunday, police reports said.