Princes To Help Protect Oceans
June 27th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
Greenpeace UK is celebrating that Princes, a leading tinned tuna company, will change the way they get their tuna. After receiving over 80,000 emails from Greenpeace supporters, Princes says that it will no longer rely on indiscriminate and destructive fishing methods that kill all kinds of marine creatures like sharks and ...
Tags: fishing, Greenpeace
April 13th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in General
The best way to ensure we will have fish to eat in the future is to implement sustainable fishing. The UK might lead the way, if a recent poll by WWF is ...
Tags: fishing, sustainable, UK, WWF
January 24th, 2011 by Alison Wheatley in Wildlife
Bycatch, as the birds and marine non-fish animals that get caught and killed by fishing gear are called, is a big problem. So the recent BirdLife International news...
Tags: Birdlife International, birds, fishing
August 18th, 2010 by Alison Wheatley in Conservation
A Vancouver Aquarium conservation team led by Dr. Jeff Marliave has been trying to re-establish black rockfish along the shorelines of West Vancouver. On...
Tags: aquarium, Black rockfish, Conservation, ecosystem, fish, fishing, marine, Observe, Pacific Canada Display, Record and Report, Vancouver
November 6th, 2009 by Alison Wheatley in General
In the wild, lionfish are greedy predators that have invaded the Caribbean and eastern US seacoast. They gobble up native fish and damage ecosystems, an...
