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Ada: Monument economic data 'speculative'
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
... that details the potential economic benefits of the White House's proposal to establish a national marine monument in the Northern Mariana Islands. ...

Eastern Pacific tuna hang in the balance
Eureka! Science News - Quebec,QC,Canada
... regional marine conservation director said that, "Less than one percent of the Eastern Pacific Ocean has been designated as Marine Protected Areas, ...

Climate change seen helping short-lived creatures
Reuters - 6 hours ago
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO (Reuters) - Climate change is likely to disrupt food chains by favoring animals with short lifespans over ..

US report: Methane gas levels begin to increase again
Xinhua, China - Oct 29, 2008
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The amount of methane in Earth's atmosphere shot up in 2007, bringing to an end a period of about a decade in which ...

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Log ship ran aground on protected marine site
Solomon Star - Honiara,Solomon Islands
The wreck site is a registered marine protected area (MPA) of Dunde, under the Roviana Conservation Foundation (RCF). Yesterday, members of the RCF who went ...

Rising CO2 accelerates coral bleaching: study
Reuters - Oct 27, 2008
... -Rising carbon dioxide levels in the world's oceans due to climate change, combined with rising sea temperatures, could accelerate coral bleaching, ..

One-third of world fish catch used for animal feed
Reuters UK, UK - Oct 28, 2008
By Deborah Zabarenko, Environment Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One-third of the world's ocean fish catch is ground up for animal feed, ...

'Antiquities Act the wrong tool'
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU) is urging the White House to conserve the waters around the CNMI's northern islands under the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, ...
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Conserving coral reefs to attain sustainable development
IPPmedia - Dar es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
... been more seriously affected rather deep sea water. Coral reefs form one of the essential global life support ecosystems necessary for food production, ...
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Guam Fishermen Say Marine Monument Plans Are Fishy!
Pacific News Center - USA
Guam- Even though the proposed boundaries for the proposed Marine National Monument covers only the waters surrounding three of the northern most islands of ...

CNMI government softens opposition to marine monument proposal
Radio New Zealand International - Wellington,New Zealand
Governor Benigno Fitial and legislative leaders are now "more open" to continuing talks on the plan with White House staff if it can provide major benefits ...

Are the orcas starving?

As salmon runs decline, killer whale numbers take hardest hit since 1990s

By ROBERT McCLURE
P-I REPORTER

Showing signs of starvation as salmon runs faltered up and down the West Coast, Puget Sound's orca population lost seven of its number over the past year, bringing the population to just 83, anxious scientists reported Friday.

The development marks the biggest reduction in the orca population since a series of bad chinook salmon seasons in the 1990s battered the killer whales' numbers.

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For fishermen, a way to make ghost gear disappear
Wicked Local Provincetown - Orleans,MA,USA
Soon they'd enlisted the help of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the Sea Debris Initiative was born. Ben Cowie-Haskell, Stellwagen's ...

Bush plan to restrict fishing
Pacific Daily News - Hagåtña,GU,USA
The local fishing community fears the marine monument designation could keep the area off-limits -- even to small, local fishermen. ...

Opposition To CNMI Marine Monument Takes New Twist
pacific - Honolulu,HI,USA
The initial strong opposition to the White House's bid for a marine monument around CNMI's northern may not be so strong as it was. Gov. ...

Duplicated names found on pro monument petition
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
"The Friends of the Monument spent four months collecting signatures in support of the designation of a marine monument in the CNMI," the statement says. ...

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White House also eyeing Pacific war monument
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
... under the Antiquities Act of 1906-the same legal mechanism the White House might use to establish a marine monument near the CNMI. ...

CAO says no to Bush's marine monument plan
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
... resolution rejecting the White House's controversial proposal to establish a national marine monument in the waters around the CNMI's northern islands,

CEQ chief: Monument could aid reefs worldwide
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
By Stefan Sebastian A marine monument in the ocean waters around the CNMI's northern islands could present a vital opportunity for governments worldwide to ...

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Critical seal habitat considered for main islands
KPUA - HI,USA
Environmentalists say monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands are
thriving and giving birth while others are dying of starvation,
entanglement in fishing ...

New rules to protect North Atlantic right whales
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
"There are only 300 to 400 left in the world," Connie Barclay,
spokeswoman for NOAA Fisheries, said of the right whales. "They are
slow-moving and very ...

Humpback Whale Photographed Off Maui's Coast
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
Hawaii is also home to the only National Marine Sanctuary dedicated to
the endangered humpback whale, the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale
National Marine ...

Argentina Bans Commercial Fishing to Protect Marine Wildlife
Environment News Service - USA
The Sea and Sky initiative seeks to promote precautionary management at
the ecosystem level for this vast oceanscape, within which Burdwood Bank
is an ...

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Public urged to practice responsible ocean stewardship following...
KHNL-TV/KHBC/KOGG - Honolulu,HI,USA
... and disturbing monk seals on Manana Island. If anyone has more
information on the seal, call the NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement at
(800) 853-1964.

Fisheries losing $50 billion a year
Reuters UK, UK - Oct 8, 2008
By Jasmin Melvin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As more and more fishermen chase
fewer and fewer fish, $50 billion (29 billion pounds) are lost each year
in ...

Satellites collect data on sea temperatures, reefs
The Associated Press
"Bleaching is a major threat to the health of endangered coral reef
ecosystems across the earth," NOAA administrator and retired Navy Vice
Adm. Conrad C. ...

State's ocean waters due for regs
Martha's Vineyard Times - Vineyard Haven,MA,USA
"Essentially, it's a first step in 'zoning' the ocean," he said. "There
is no comprehensive federal plan. We would be the first state to adopt a
broad-based ...

Supreme Court Considers Effects of Sonar on Whales
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
The CEQ then determined the Navy's need to train with sonar was an
emergency that trumped NEPA. The justices questioned the CEQ's authority
to override ...

Thirteen per cent of the world's land surface is now a protected area

This should be good news, but given our struggles to secure meaningful protection I hesitate to feel good about this it.  Many parks continue to be paper parks and as long as bottom trawling and other destructive activities are allowed to occur within the borders of protected areas such as Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary we have a long way to go and should not take comfort in 13%.  Still the marine community has a lot of  work to do -- only 0.5% of the ocean is in protected areas. I wish the headline and article offered a little clearer picture of this reality. 

 

Thirteen per cent of the world's land surface is now a protected area
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Originally the world conservation movement hoped to have 10 per cent of the world's surface under protection but it is now 13 per cent. ...

 

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> Four area ports join to review reserves
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Bandon Western World - Bandon,OR,USA
By Steve McCasland Four Southern Oregon ocean ports have banded together
to provide local community review of proposals to establish marine
reserves and ...

Climate focus 'good news for species'
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BBC News - UK
Climate change could actually benefit some of the world's most
endangered species, says Conservation International president Russell
Mittermeier. ...

Parts of Chessapeake Crab Industry Declared 'Commercial Fishery ...
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Red, Green, and Blue - San Francisco,CA,USA
The harvest value of soft shell crabs in Maryland and Virginia has
declined by 41 percent from the late 1990s, according to NOAA's
Fisheries Service. ...
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Marine reserve details announced
KPOJ - Portland,OR,USA
By Jeff Kirsch The group Our Ocean outlined plans for creating marine reserves during a press conference at the Oregon Historical Society in downtown ...

 

Feds sued over endangered species protections
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
AP SAN FRANCISCO—Environmentalists have sued the Bush administration over its handling of six threatened and endangered species that live in California and ...

 

Pirates invade Pacific: Robs Islanders of their livelihoods
Matangi Tonga - Nuku'alofa,Tonga
"Transfer of fishing catches at sea should be banned and marine reserves created in international waters which are bound by Pacific Island countries, ...

 

US could create 4.2 mln green jobs by 2038 - study
Reuters 
By Jim Loney MIAMI, Oct 2 (Reuters) - The US economy could generate 4.2 million new "green" jobs in the next 30 years, about 10 percent of all the jobs ...

 

 

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Big network of ocean reserves proposed for Oregon
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The group also proposed less-restrictive "marine protected areas" that would allow most types of fishing, including crabbing and hook-and-line fishing for ...
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Expert is on a quest to understand largest animal on Earth
Ventura County Star - Camarillo,CA,USA
... doing and their behavior," said Chris Mobley, superintendent of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary, which is supporting Calambokidis' work, ...
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Marine reserve stakeholders begin to get notification
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... Dr. Benjamin Pister, Marine Ecologist, Cabrillo National Monument (alternate for Russell E. Galipeau). Lia Protopapadakis, Marine Policy Specialist, ...
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NOAA Addresses the Marine Debris Problem
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
Fishing gear that has been lost or discarded is a chronic threat to the coral reef ecosystems of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the ...
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