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The Inventor Of Roomba Has A New Robot That Sucks Up Invasive Fish
The Guardian robot collects lionfish so we can eat them—before they destroy ecosystems by chowing down on all the local fish.
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World's Largest Tuna Company Finally Commits to Sustainable Fishing and Worker Protection
Major victory took two years of relentless campaigning and pressure from hundreds of thousands of concerned consumers across the globe. It took two years of relentless campaigning and nearly 700,000 concerned people from around the world, but today we are sharing the good news that together we convinced the world’s largest tuna company to clean up its act.
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Sea Cucumber Smugglers Made Millions On Delicacy - eOntarioNow
San Diego (EON) – A father-son team for allegedly smuggling more than $17 million worth of sea cucumbers to the United States and exported them to Asia. According to media reports Saturday, David Mayorquín and his father, Ramón Torres Mayorquín, are accused of buying illegally caught sea cucumbers by stealthy fishermen from the Yucatan peninsula…
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Banned From Boats in Myanmar, Rohingya Fish on Rafts of Junk
The ban is one small part of a sweeping and violent counter-insurgency campaign in Rakhine state, home to the long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority, where authorities have been accused of widespread abuses
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I quit fishing: it’s just brutality dressed up as fun
A fishing trip off Perth made Dan Maio realise he was “an arsehole.”
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Bluefin tuna sells for £500,000 at Japan auction amid overfishing concerns
A bluefin tuna has fetched 74.2m yen (£517,000) at the first auction of the year at Tsukiji market in Tokyo, amid warnings that decades of overfishing by Japan and other countries is taking the species to the brink of extinction. The 212kg fish, caught off the coast of Oma in northern Japan, was bought by Kiyomura, the operator of the Sushi Zanmai restaurant chain, after its president, Kiyoshi Kimura, outbid rivals for the sixth year in a row.
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Hunting for Gooseneck Barnacles
Spanish fisherman Santi Diaz Mosquera knows every journey down the treacherous Galician rocks in search of a handful of prized gooseneck barnacles could be his last.
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Thousands of Chinese ships trawl the world, so how can we stop overfishing?
The UN has pledged to ensure healthy, productive oceans – but how can this be achieved when demand for fish has never been higher
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One of the World's Biggest Fisheries Is on The Verge of Collapse
Years ago Christopher Tubo caught a 660-pound blue marlin in the South China Sea. The fishing was good there, he says. Tuna fishermen would come home from a trip with dozens of the high-value fish as well as a good haul of other species. “Here there’s none of that,” he says, looking toward the Sulu Sea, the Philippine sea where he’s been fishing for the past four years. His two boats, traditional Filipino outriggers called bancas, float in the shallow water nearby, new coats of white paint drying in the sun.
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South Korea holds drills to combat illegal fishing
High-speed boats from the Korea Coast Guard and navy surround vessels simulating foreign boats fishing illegally in South Korean waters during an exercise in the West Sea last Friday. A vast number of Chinese boats allegedly cross into South Korean waters to fish illegally every year.
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Fish Have Feelings. Does That Mean We're Torturing Them?
Inside the weirdly deep, surprisingly fraught field of fish pain.
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Yellowstone Fish Deaths: 183 Miles of River Closed to halt Spread of Parasite
Ban on all fishing, rafting and other river activities in the US river will remain until fish stop dying, say officials.
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Drone Fishing For Tuna
Pioneering game fishing from the beach using innovative techniques from above.
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Pacific Bluefin Tuna Population Has Dropped 97%
In some areas, bluefin tuna is harvested at triple sustainable levels
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The Longest Night
One Easter Sunday, the Alaska Ranger — a fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor — went down in the Bering Sea, 6,000 feet deep and thirty-two degrees cold. Forty-seven people were on board, and nearly half of them would spend hours floating alone in the darkness, in water so frigid it can kill a man in minutes. Forty-two of them would be rescued. Here’s how. By Sean Flynn. (Oct. ’08)
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US to withdraw from crucial fisheries treaty with Pacific nations
The United States has given Pacific Island nations notice that it plans to withdraw from the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, one of its most important aid, trade and geopolitical arrangements with the region.
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In Tanzania, a Horrific Fishing Tactic Destroys All Sea Life
Tanzania is the only country in Africa where fishermen widely use homemade bombs to increase their catch. By Jani Actman.
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Life’s Rich Pageant: Meet a Florida Man
“I wasn’t a hunter-fisherman. And it was not a good idea, and then it went terribly wrong.” By Holly Anderson.
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The more humanely a fish is killed, the better it tastes
Meat from quickly killed fish stays fresher far longer than meat from fish that die of asphyxiation
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Lost at sea: the man who vanished for 14 months
In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him – for 438 days. This is his story. By Jonathan Franklin.
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