Oceans and Fisheries

• 6/24/20 Mercury Pollution Found in Deepest Part of Ocean
• California’s critical kelp forests are disappearing in a warming world. Can they be saved?
• Oceans can be restored to former glory within 30 years, say scientists 
• History's biggest mining operation is about to begin
• World’s Oceans Are Losing Oxygen Rapidly, Study Finds 12/7/19
• The Devastation of Overfishing and the Major Problems with Aquaculture and Seafood
• Soldier flies and sustainable aquaculture 12/1/19
• Alaska Cod Fishery Closes And Industry Braces For Ripple Effect
• Call it a comeback for West Coast fishery
• Ocean grabbing — local fishing communities under threat? | DW Documentary 10/27/19 (YouTube)
• Trump Declares War on the Chesapeake Bay
• Trump administration disbanded marine life and health advisory boards
• Deep-Sea Mining on Hydrothermal Vents Threatens Biodiversity
• The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters
• The mystery of the sea gull guano on Catalina Island
• Toxic Alaska Mine Could Destroy Most Productive Salmon fishery 9/1/19
• Sharks and rays to be given new international protections 8/25/19
• Farmed Salmon = most toxic
• It’s Time to Be Honest about Seafood
• The Industry That Takes Food Out of the Mouths of Hungry People
• LAT Ocean Acidification
• Hurricane Florence and coastal pollution from pigs, coal, chemicals, etc. NYT
• Climate change and Lobster boom-bust NYT
• Ocean Plastics mapped in Pacific garbage patch
• Plastics in the Ocean and failed ideas on what to do about it. 
• Sanchi oil spill already caused a major ecological disaster
• Was your seafood caught with slave labor? 
• Attenborough on the Oceans and the new Planet Earth Series.
• Record Ocean Temperature Increase in 2017
• 14 Sustainable Fisheries orgs listed
• ​The Vanishing Vaquita: cetacean extinction in the Gulf of California​
• The status of right whales in the Atlantic
• A legal lifeline for the right whale? 
• Great Barrier Reef Succumbs to climate change​
• How to Save the Great Barrier Reef (McKibben)​​

• 6/11/20: President Trump Chooses Time of National Crisis to Remove Protections from Marine Monument
• Two states, D.C. plan to sue EPA for failing to enforce Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan
• Nat Geo 6/2/20 "In the Chesapeake Bay, saving seagrasses can fight ocean acidification"
• Ocean Acidification is Literally Dissolving the shells of the Dungeness Crabs
• New Report on Ocean Oxygen Loss Gives “Ultimate Wake-Up Call” to Act on Climate
• Why is an ocean current critical to world weather losing steam? 12/2/19
• Research Links Pesticide Harmful to Bees With Collapse of Fisheries
• Voracious Purple Sea Urchins Are Ravaging Kelp Forests on the West Coast 10/25/19
• A Minefield of Purple Urchins Devastated Kelp Forests in California
• The sea is running out of fish despite nations' pledge to stop it
• Best way to protect ocean fisheries? Let nations profit from them
• ​This Is Exactly What Will Happen After the Last Fish in the Ocean Dies
• The Worlds Oceans are in Danger in Major Climate Report
• Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It's Accelerating
• Scientists Go Back in Time to Find More Troubling News About Earth
• The Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Acidified the Ocean in a flash
• Continuous oil spill most Americans never heard about
• Oil Spill Seeping Into Gulf Of Mexico Contained After 14 Years (NPR 5/16/19)
• A 14-Year-Long Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
• How California's kelp forests are dying (Nov, 2018)
• Octopuses may go blind as climate change pulls oxygen from the ocean
• Killer Whales Face Dire PCBs Threat
• Garbage Dumped into Chesapeake Bay
• Some dirty secrets about cruise ships
• Area of global dead zones is doubling every 10 years
• Tyson Foods Linked to Largest "Dead Zone"
• The Disappearing Mississippi Delta​
• Corals Are Dissolving Away
• Farmed salmon escape their pens in Washington state
• Nearly half of the world's marine wildlife have been wiped out
• Beat farms wiping out ancient Sturgeon
• Enviros seek to protect "forage fish" in California
• Sea Shepherd confronts pirate fishers in the Southern Ocean
• "Prawn War": Sri Lanka conflict with India on Indian Ocean shrimp fishery

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