oceans Archive

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    The world’s most diverse seabird community needs you - by frog



    If ever there was an opportunity to protect a marine environment abundant in unique species, a growing tourism interest, and with minimal impact on fishing interests, this is it. The Subantarctic region is recognised as being of international significance. While the islands themselves enjoy considerable protection as nature reserves, little of the marine area surrounding [...] read more
    July 9, 2009 2:00 pm - 3 Comments
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    Battered Jellyfish and Chips? - by frog



    This week, the Fishing Industry announced it was seeking Marine Stewardship Council certification for five NZ fisheries. The Government endorsed the move, saying the “eco-label will be further endorsement of New Zealand’s careful fisheries management”. The Greens would love all of NZ’s fisheries to be MSC-certified, if only the “careful fisheries management” was a true [...] read more
    May 9, 2009 12:09 pm - 8 Comments
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    Running out of fish - by frog



    Dot Earth has this short video, noting that our oceans are running out of fish.  Actually not just running out of fish but being profoundly stripped empty: For more than a decade, marine scientists and communicators have been trying to convey just how profoundly the biological bounty of the seas has been stripped away in [...] read more
    October 1, 2008 11:29 am - 2 Comments
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    Drowning out the whale song - by frog



    I haven’t had a decent whale-hugging, drum-beating sort of post for a little while, and I’d hate to disabuse people of any stereotypes they might have built up.  So here’s the good news story of the man who invented a way to help whales by using West African drum music. It seems whales have been [...] read more
    September 17, 2008 4:57 pm - 2 Comments
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    Empty oceans - by frog



    Our poor little disappearing whitebait are not alone.  Or to be more accurate, once they reach the ocean, they are alone. The US Good magazine has an important story, Fin: The Last Days of Fish that notes: Our oceans carry less than a tenth the number of fish they once held, yet few of us [...] read more
    September 10, 2008 11:50 am - 5 Comments
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    Ocean deserts - by frog



    According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) huge desert like areas in the world’s oceans have expanding dramatically in the last decade. Since 1998 large expanse of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans which have low surface plant life grew by 15% or 6.6 million square kilometers. The deserts negatively impact on many [...] read more
    March 12, 2008 12:40 pm - 1 Comment
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    Rob Hamill launches ‘Proud to be Green’ billboards - by frog



    Was that Rob Hamill and Jeanette Fitzsimons I saw in a cherry-picker on Newton Road this afternoon? Hamill is probably best known for smashing the world record for the Atlantic Rowing Race in 1997.  I never knew he supported the Greens.  Seems he and Jeanette were putting the last staples into one of several ‘Proud [...] read more
    March 7, 2008 10:56 pm - 47 Comments
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