Oceans and Fisheries

• 8/30/22: "Humpback Whales Pass Their Songs Across Oceans" NYT
• 7/28/22: "No state is losing land like Louisiana—but no other state has a bolder plan" NatGeo
• 7/7/22: First, the Fish Fell From the Sky. Then They Washed Ashore" NYT
• 6/23/22: Brookings: "The Great Blue Wall Initiative: At the nexus of climate change, nature conservation, and the blue economy"
• 6/24/22: "The Pacific Ocean near SF has been the coldest in a decade. here’s what it means" 
• 5/21/22: "“El Cartel de Sinaloa y el CJNG se están haciendo con el control absoluto de la industria pesquera y maderera en México”
• 4/6/22: "Illegal Fishing Is Pushing Ocean Ecosystems Toward Collapse" Truthout
• 1/5/22: "Scientists Produce 3D Maps Of Oxygen-Deprived ‘Dead Zones’ In Pacific Ocean" 
• 8/3/21: "South Africa’s massive ‘sardine run’ leads fish into an ecological trap" 
• 7/24/21: "California gives UC San Diego $35 million to build a coastal research ship"  LAT
• 4/19/21: "Millions of tons of nuclear wastewater from Fukushima will be dumped into the sea"
• 4/2/21: "Animal welfare risks of global aquaculture" AAAS
• 3/9/21: "Bottom Trawling Fishing Gear Releases Huge Amounts of Carbon From Sea Floor"
• 3/11/21: "Satellite Imagery Shows Northern California Kelp Forests Have Collapsed"
• 3/8/21: "Green-pawed sea otters are saving California’s kelp forests"
• 3/2/21: "The Climate-Fighting Power of Kelp"
• 2/26/21: "One-Third of Freshwater Fish Species Are at Risk of Extinction"
• 2/16/21: "In the fight to save the vaquita, conservationists take on cartels"
• 2/4/212:" In the Oceans, the Volume Is Rising as Never Before" NYT
• 1/17/21: The plight of the wild Atlantic salmon" Al Jazeera
• 12/3/20: "How Scientists Tracked Down a Mass Killer (of Salmon)" NYT
• 12/2/20: "Countries fall short of U.N. pledge to protect 10% of the ocean by 2020"
• 11/25/20: America’s Marine Sanctuaries (Smithsonian)
• 11/18/20: 'Dire outlook': scientists say Florida reefs have lost nearly 98% of coral 
• 11/6/20: "'Major Victory': Federal Court Rejects FDA Approval of 'Frankenfish'"
• 10/25/20: L.A.'s coast was once a DDT dumping ground.
• 9/19/20:  "Canadian police make arrests as tempers flare in lobster feud"  BBC  
• 8/24/20: "BIG FISH; The Aquacultural Revolution"
• 8/20/20: "Atlantic Ocean Holds 10x More Plastic Pollution Than Previously Believed, New Study Finds"
• 8/17/20: "Mining the Deep Sea" Counterpunch
• 7/17/20: "North Atlantic Right Whales Now Officially 'One Step From Extinction'"
• 7/13/20: "Ocean Climate Action Plan (#BlueNewDeal)" Middlebury Institute of International Studies
• 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)​​

• 12/15/21: "Whales will help save the world’s climate crisis — unless the military destroys them first" 
• 8/21/21: "The Ocean and the Meaning of Life" Rachel Carson and the sea
• 6/24/21: "One Man's Drive to Save a Coral Reef in Cuba
  Nene leverages sustainable tourism to help a dying reef" Sierra Club 
• 6/8/21: 'The Rising Pressures on Ocean Governance"
• 4/19/21: "The Gulf of California May Be an Overlooked Home for Great White Sharks" 
• 4/12/21: "Walls of death: fisheries threaten livelihoods in the Indian Ocean, report reveals" Greenpeace
• 4/12/21: "How Did the Pandemic Affect Ocean Conservation?"
• 3/20/21: "Tuna’s Last Stand"
• ​"THE WORLD'S FORGOTTEN FISHES: Valuing Freshwater Fish is critical for people and nature"
• 3/10/21: LAT: "Deep-sea ‘Roombas’ will comb ocean floor for DDT waste barrels near Catalina"
• 3/5/21: "Big Step Forward for $50 Billion Plan to Save Louisiana Coast"
• 2/26/21: "One-Third of Freshwater Fish Species Are at Risk of Extinction"
• 2/10/21: "If We Want to Clean Up the Oceans, We Have to Confront the Fossil Fuel Giants"
• 1/27/21: "Shark Populations Are Crashing, With a ‘Very Small Window’ to Avert Disaster"
• 12/22/20: "Hawaiʻi Scores Another Big Win in Stopping Harmful Aquarium Fishing, Protecting Reefs and Native Hawaiians"
• 11/9/20:. Vaquita Genome Offers Hope for Species’ Survival
• 10/28/20: "Only 366 Endangered Right Whales Are Alive: New NOAA Report"
• 8/28/20: "A fish that walks on the seafloor has gone extinct. Can its cousins be saved?" NatGeo
• 8/24/20: "How to Save the Sea: Lessons from an Italian Fishing Community"
• 8/19/20: "Fisheries Management Drives Fish Populations Recovery"
• 6/11/20: President Trump Chooses Time of National Crisis to Remove Protections from Marine Monument
• 6/6/20: "Trump Opens Marine Sanctuary to Commercial Fishing"
• 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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