Save The Ocean: 2012

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Weems & Plath Marine Navigation Tool Set (Basic)

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

HDE Sea Marine Compass - Black

Features

Be prepared by having a compass on board incase of emergency situations.
Great for boating, watersports, traveling, hiking, outdoors, etc.
Color: Black
Package Contents: 1 x Mountable Compass; 1 x Sticky Mount Pad; 2 x Phillips Screws
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Always have a compass and charts on board for emergency situations. Be prepared in case of fog, dead batteries, GPS malfunction, etc. The console-mount design of this economical compass is ideal for boating and smaller sized ships. Package includes one(1) mounting bracket.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Ritchie Navigation TR-33 Trek Compass (Black)

Features

Surface mount with a low profile, like a flush mount compass without cutting a hole.
2 1/4" (57mm) Direct-Read Dial
Surface mount, ideal for today's compact helm designs.
Night lighting: 12V Green
5 year warranty

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The TR-33 is a Black 2 1/4" direct-read dial surface mounted compass. It's low profile (under 2 1/2") makes it ideal for dash mounting under the windshield. 12V Green Night Light, compensators built in, 5 yr warranty.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Ritchie Tr-31G Trek Compass - Bracket Mount - Gray

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Ritchie Tr-31G-Clm

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Saturday, October 13, 2012

Ritchie Navigation X-21WW 2" White Dash Mount Compass

Features

Mounting Style Dash
Backlight Yes
Read NONE
Lubber Lines NONE

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Friday, October 5, 2012

S-53 Ritchie Navigation Explorer Compass 2 3/4-Inch Dial with Surface Mount (Black)

Features

Surface mount with a low profile, like a flush mount compass without cutting a hole.
2 3/4" (70mm) Direct-Read Dial
Surface mount, ideal for today's compact helm designs.
Night lighting: 12V Green
5 year warranty

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Monday, September 10, 2012

WWF and krill - Conservation gone wrong

Updated Friday 19th October 2012

The Wikipedia entry for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) states that 'WWF is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment'.

No surprises there then, just as you imagined, WWF working hard to protect nature, wildlife and the environment. Commercial exploitation would be the last thing you'd think WWF would be involved with. And that's where you'd be wrong.

Since 2009 WWF Norway have been in partnership with Aker Biomarine, a Norwegian company that runs the largest krill fishery in the Antarctic. Aker Biomarine pays $178,000 annually for the privilege of putting the WWF logo on its products. In October 2012 WWF Australia signed a new partnership deal, this time with Australian fish and krill oil producer Blackmores. WWF have not yet disclosed how much this new partnership is worth.

Some might think that it is an oxymoron for a conservation organisation to be raising funds from entering into partnerships with companies that rely on the commercial exploitation of wild species to make their products. After all krill are a keystone species and numerous animals rely on them for food. There is also serious doubt about what the environmental impact a krill fishery would have in the Antarctic.

Even WWF are worried about krill.

In a report entitled 'Blue Whales - Under Threat' WWF stated that 'the problem of declining krill threatens most of the Antarctic food chain, but it is especially serious for the blue whales because there are so few of them'. Stuart Chapman of WWF goes further saying 'when you get this kind of warning shot that indicates something is going terribly wrong in the Antarctic, we need to sound the alarm.'

You'd expect consistency of communication from one of the world's largest conservation organisations, but WWF's apparent confusion over the krill issue is worrying. Either that or WWF are just mere opportunists who garner funds from leaping on the nearest bandwagon?

Krill exploitation is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. It is the final frontier of marine exploitation, and a frontier that shouldn't be crossed. The Antarctic krill fishery is in its infancy and could still be nipped in the bud. WWF's endorsement not only encourages the expansion of the fishery, it lends respectability to the commercial exploitation of the whole Antarctic region.

If you think that WWF have made an error by endorsing the Antarctic krill fishery, please sign this petition.

Davis Instruments Navigation Rules Quick Reference Card

Features

A Must for Safe Boating in an Easy to Use Format
Full color both sides
Punched for binder or bulkhead mounting
Weatherproof high strength plastic
Full 8 1/2" X 11" (22 X 28 cm) size

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A proven navigation tool used by the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Power Squadrons, and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary. Navigation Rules feature U.S. Buoyage System, inland and international rules, right-of- way, lights, sound signals, and bridge signals. All presented in graphic summary and easy to read. Complete, precise, accurate.

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Monday, September 3, 2012

Is the RSPB failing seabirds?

In recent reports the RSPB claim that climate change is altering the availability of sandeels and causing seabirds such as kittiwakes, Arctic terns and Arctic skuas to fail to breed successfully.

The evidence seems to be much stronger for overfishing to be the cause of these failures, and the RSPB, by avoiding the elephant in the room, may be damaging the long-term recovery plan for seabirds.

In most RSPB reports there is often no mention that overfishing is also a likely cause. It makes you wonder whether there are political motives for this blinkered stance? An analogy would be like blaming climate change instead of industrialised intensive farming since the 1950's for the decline in British birds.

The sandeel fishery has now become by far the biggest single-species fishery in the North Sea, with landings accounting for one-third of all fish landed. The vast majority of this catch is landed and processed in Denmark. Such fundamental changes in the fabric of the marine ecosystem are what ecologists refer to as 'fishing down the food web'.

Since 1977, total yearly North Sea sandeel catches have fluctuated around 600,000-800,000 tonnes, but since 2003 catches have crashed dramatically to between 200,000-300,000 tonnes. The collapse of the fishery was particularly severe in the Norwegian economical zone with a 95% reduction in landings in 2005.

Many scientists and ecologists believe that the recent disastrous breeding seasons for many of Europe's seabird colonies can be directly linked to the industrial fishing of sandeels in the North Sea.

As early as 1997, two respected Danish fisheries scientists - Henrik Gislason and Eskild Kirkegaard - were highly critical of the North Sea sandeel fishery, and they concluded that "it cannot be ruled out that (sandeel) fishing could adversely effect (sic) the breeding success of the birds. It would therefore be precautionary to close areas to fishing until more is known about sandeel stock structure and interactions between sandeels and seabirds".

And a report published by the International Council for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) suggests that "the amount of industrial fish species taken by fishermen in the North Sea appears to leave little for seabirds and marine mammals".

The UK has some of the most significant seabird populations in the world, and discovering the exact cause of their decline is essential if we want to implement an effective recovery plan. If the RSPB have got the diagnosis wrong, then we will probably end up with a dead patient.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Future ocean

If you had travelled the world in 1812 the natural wonders seen on earth would be jaw-dropping. Plains full of grazing animals and attendant predators, huge forests covering much of the land and a sky full of birds. Wildlife in such abundance that it is hard to imagine now.

Over the next two centuries human encroachment chopped down the forests, ploughed up the plains and hunted the animals to a fraction of their pristine numbers. Some animals thrived under these new conditions, but 95% did not.

At the beginning of the 20th century, shortly before destruction was absolute, some enlightened people decided to act and national parks like Kruger, Yellowstone, and Etosha were formed.

Unless we learn from our terrestrial mistakes, what happened on the land can give us an accurate glimpse of what is in store for the world's ocean.

Ultimately we will deplete the vast majority of the ocean through overfishing, leaving only small pockets of biodiversity - effectively the national parks of the sea. Farmed animals will replace wildlife, with aquaculture cages ringing our coasts and filling the open-ocean in their thousands. Wind farms and tidal generators will festoon the waters that once teemed with life, whilst new technology and ice-free conditions will open up once inaccessible regions to the mining, energy and shipping industries.

It isn't too late though. We still have an opportunity to do for the ocean what we failed to do for the land - protect the ecosystem holistically. There is still enough marine life left to repopulate the entire ocean, but the protection must be interconnected. This is where we failed so miserably on land by creating small, isolated nature reserves that are more akin to zoos than places where nature can thrive.

If we protect 30% or more of the world's ocean from all destructive activity now, with a network of carefully chosen marine reserves, the resultant proliferation of marine life could allow for enough sustainable exploitation to feed a rapidly growing human population. But if we act too slowly, or do not do enough, the future ocean may become as devoid of biodiversity as the vast majority of the land has become.

Monday, August 20, 2012

F-50 Ritchie Navigation Explorer Compass 2 3/4-Inch Dial with Flush Mount (Black)

Features

Ritchie's most popular flush mount compass, OEM replacement or after market installed.
2 3/4" (70mm) Direct-Read Dial
Flush mount, mounting in a 3 3/4" (95mm) mounting hole.
Night lighting: 12V Green
5 year warranty

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On the brink of a marine meltdown

Spot the difference. Will we ever learn?

Why is it that with over two-thirds of the Earth's surface covered in water marine conservation still lags behind land conservation? One reason might be that you can't put a fence around a marine reserve like you can with land reserves like Etosha or the Kruger National Park. This makes it vitally important that we give robust protection to individual marine species, especially the ocean wanderers, such as marlin, bluefin tuna and sharks.

Whilst it is commendable of Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace to do their utmost to protect bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, why wait until a species is on the verge of extinction before you put in a concerted effort to protect it? There is no doubt that this great publicity surrounding the bluefin will influence the decision to formally protect the species, but why was this not done a decade or two ago?

Although not as glamorous or iconic as whales and bluefin tuna, if Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace were to send their boats to Antarctica right now to try and safeguard the future of krill (a vitally important marine species which is just beginning to receive the attention of the serial over-exploiters), it is possible that we could actually close the stable door before the horse bolts for once. This is the true meaning of marine conservation, having the foresight, seeing the problem clearly and early, and doing something about it long before it's too late.

If businessmen and governments, whose motives are greed and power, can see the massive commercial potential of krill, then surely those who care passionately about the future of our fragile marine ecosystem should always be hot on their heels?

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Overfishing & piracy

Overfishing in African waters is forcing fishermen to turn to piracy to make a living. The pirates blame foreign trawlers for destroying their livelihoods, forcing them into hijacking ships and demanding ransoms. The most dramatic seizure yet, a Saudi supertanker with its expensive cargo of oil, has underlined a surge in piracy in the Gulf of Aden, one of the world's busiest shipping routes.

The problem has spread south to the Indian Ocean coastal waters off Somalia with 62 ships attacked this year, and there is a strong possibility that the practice will catch on in other coastal regions as fishermen look for alternative ways of making money.

The International Maritime Board's piracy monitors say there are at least 10 vessels and 221 crew members held hostage in ports such as Eyl, east Somalia. Pirates, many operating out of former fishing ports such as Eyl and Bosaso, are deploying increasingly sophisticated methods, including high speed launches, GPS trackers, and satellite communications, to target shipping.

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Krill - The final frontier

There has to be a point where we draw a line under marine over-exploitation.

Ideally we should have done this some time ago, but since we haven't, we now have the perfect opportunity.

Krill, the food of numerous marine species, may over the next 50-100 years be sacrificed for an oil that has intangible human health benefits and that is available from other less important living sources.

Omega 3 oil can be obtained from linseed and flaxseed and need not be derived from a species so vital to the marine ecosystem.

The exploitation of krill is where the line needs to be drawn in the sand.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Sustainable commercial fishing is a myth

To claim that fishing on a commercial scale for any wild species of marine animal is sustainable is at best optimistic and at worse misleading.

There is NO accurate way of measuring the stock of a commercial species and in most cases scientific data provided by Governments will err on the side of optimism.

The links below provide three different sources of information about the 'sustainability' of Atlantic swordfish. If you take time to absorb the information you will realise that, whilst well meaning, it is innacurate, confusing, and smacks of guesswork.

Sustainability is the current buzzword, but to truly ensure that a wild species will survive, refuse to eat it.

http://www.fishonline.org/search/advanced/?fish_id=108&q=swordfish
www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishwatch/species/n_atl_swordfish.htm
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/SeafoodWatch/web/sfw_factsheet.aspx?gid=25

Sunday, July 29, 2012

UK sea angling records tell a sorry tale

If you need proof that something is drastically wrong with our sea fish populations you need look no further than the British sea fish angling records.

These records will give you little indication of the size of fish prior to large scale commercial exploitation (archaeological records show that cod in medieval times could be several meters long), but for a look at the modern state of our marine environment it is enlightening.

If you take an average of the years in which the record fish were caught, the heyday for catching big fish in UK waters in modern times was roughly in the mid-1980's, and it's been pretty much downhill ever since.

No British sea fish record has been officially broken since 2002 (Couch's sea bream) and the oldest record still standing is from 1933 (Atlantic bluefin tuna - they left us when the N. Sea herring fishery collapsed).

Taking a closer look and accounting for commercial fish species only, the picture looks even bleaker.

The largest bass was caught in 1988, cod in 1992, haddock in 1978, halibut in 1979, herring in 1973, ling in 1989, mackerel in 1984, monkfish in 1984, skate in 1986 and plaice in 1989. (Source: British Record Fish Committee). It would be extremely surprising if any of these records are ever broken again.

Whilst this comparison can in no way be described as a definitive account of the state of the UK's seas, it is, for a person who grew up in the 1970's and was used to frequently seeing a 40lb cod or ling adorning the cover of the sea angling press, a sobering reminder of what we have lost beneath our surrounding seas.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

At this rate the oceans will be empty before we know it

Over-exploitation of ocean animals is happening at such an alarming rate that it seems likely that we may lose some species before we can actually do anything concrete to save them. Sharks are the most obvious example of this. Not since the North American buffalo or the passenger pigeon has a species been so ruthlessly slaughtered by humans.

It has been estimated that the current species extinction rate is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than it would naturally be (IUCN), and with no precedent in human history we can only guess at the consequences (but we're all pretty much agreed it won't be good).

As Asia has its 'industrial' revolution and appears to be taking a decidedly more pragmatic and less sympathetic approach to the 'harvesting' of our oceans the pressure is not going to be relieved any time soon. With so many mouths to feed this is not entirely unexpected, but there is something that can be done.

Shark fin soup will not save anyone from starvation, it is a status symbol which is used a bit like champagne, for celebrations, special occasions and to show off. The Chinese people can survive without it.

Education, demand and popularity are the key here, no restaurant survived by serving unpopular food. If we all took a few minutes to scan the menu of every Chinese restaurant we pass and if they serve shark fin soup having a quiet word with the owner, we could make shark fin soup a thing of the past. Outside of China at any rate.

Monday, July 23, 2012

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

World Oceans Day: Celebration or wake?

Happy World Oceans Day 2012. A day to celebrate the wonder of our amazing blue planet. But can we still celebrate? Just, maybe, but the world's ocean is in a perilous state.

The ocean is dying. This is not some scare story, or exaggeration. We have pushed the marine environment to the brink through overfishing, pollution and acidification. It is not yet too late to stop the rot, but it will be soon. If we do not protect a significant proportion of the world's ocean from all types of damaging activity right now, over seventy percent of the planet may become a biological desert.

Some people have been warning of this crisis for years, but few have listened. If the oceans are to have any hope at all, it is time we all started listening. If we don't, in 20-30 years or so, World Oceans Day may be held as a wake.

We all need to start caring more about the world's ocean and the life it contains. But sometimes we need a little inspiration. To follow are the views of some inspirational people.

"Imagine what people would say if a band of hunters strung a mile of net between two immense all-terrain vehicles and dragged it at speed across the plains of Africa. This fantastical assemblage, like something from a Mad Max movie, would scoop up everything in its way: predators such as lions and cheetahs, lumbering endangered herbivores such as rhinos and elephants, herds of impala and wildebeest, family groups of warthogs and wild dogs. Pregnant females would be swept up and carried along, with only the smallest juveniles able to wriggle through the mesh. Picture how the net is constructed, with a huge metal roller attached to the leading edge. This rolling beam smashes and flattens obstructions, flushing creatures into the approaching filaments. The effect of dragging a huge iron bar across the savannah is to break off every outcrop and uproot every tree, bush, and flowering plant, stirring columns of birds into the air. Left behind is a strangely bedraggled landscape resembling a harrowed field. The industrial hunter gatherers now stop to examine the tangled mess of writhing or dead creatures behind them. There are no markets for about a third of the animals they have caught because they don’t taste good, or because they are simply too small or too squashed. This pile of corpses is dumped on the plain to be consumed by scavengers." Charles Clover, Author, The End of the Line

"The fisheries as a global system have expanded in space. We can compute the expansion rate, and see that it’s coming to an end because there’s no more space to expand into. The expectation that there will always be more fish for us to eat cannot be met. Basically, we have this concept from before that we can expand, we can do more, that the growth can be sustainable—and it’s simply not true. We cannot expand our population and expect that we can produce the food that everybody needs. We cannot expect to increase our consumption of fish and expect that there will be fish for everybody. In the case of fisheries we have overshot already. People think this model can be resolved by eating the right fish, but in this concept there is no right fish: there’s too much fishing of everything." Dr. Daniel Pauly, Fisheries Scientist

"With species loss and food web collapse comes dangerous instability. The seas are undergoing ecological meltdown. Fishing is undermining itself by purging the oceans of species on which it depends. But its influences is far more menacing than simply the regrettable self-destruction of an industry. The wholesale removal of marine life and obliteration of their habitats is stripping resilience from ocean ecosystems. Moreover, it is undermining the ability of the oceans to support human needs. Overfishing is destabilizing the marine environment, contributing to the spread of anoxic dead zones and the increasing prevalence of toxic algal blooms, for example. Nature's power to bounce back after catastrophes or absorb the battery of stresses humanity is subjecting it to is being eroded, collapsed fishery after collapsed fishery, species by species, place by place. It is easy to point fingers and say this is the fault of greedy corporations with their factory ships, or faint-hearted politicians overeager to please the fishing industry, or the great masses of poor people reduced to bombing and poisoning their seas to extract the last few fish. But blaming others is unhelpful. Every fish and meat eater shares responsibility for the losses, and only by working together can we restore the seas' bounty." Dr. Callum Roberts, Marine Conservation Biologist

"Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around." Dr. Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer

"We're now in the midst of a third World War, but this time the enemy is ourselves, and the objective is to save the planet from ourselves. There's no hope for masses of humanity to do anything - they never have, they never will. All social change comes from the passion and intervention of individuals or small groups of individuals. Slavery wasn't ended by any government or any institution. Women got the right to vote not because of any government. The civil rights movement, the same thing. India with Mahatma Gandhi, South Africa with Nelson Mandela. Again, it's always individuals. You need those individuals with the passion and the energy to get involved. In fact, I don't know of any government or any institutions that are doing anything to solve any of these problems. All over the world, all I am seeing is individuals and non-government organizations that are passionately involved in protecting ecosystems and species." Capt. Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd

"Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner." Steve Irwin, Conservationist

Monday, July 16, 2012

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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Sport fishing must change its image

As with land animals, there is now no excuse for killing endangered large marine fish for sport and trophies. Despite this a significant minority of people in the sport fishing community are still killing these fish as proof of their endeavours in a similar vain to the great white hunters of the 1950's.

Due to intensive industrial overfishing only 10 percent of all large fish species including sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlin and sailfish are left in the sea. The era of "iconic" fish that inspired legends and novels is now well and truly over and every single animal is now precious.

Large predatory fish are usually slow maturing and a 500kg fish may be upwards of 30 years old with the largest and most sought after fish almost invariably female and quite often pregnant.

Whilst it is the commercial fishermen who still endanger these fish the most it is the sport fisherman - who kills their prey instead of catching and releasing, and then gets their photo in the popular press - who is by far the most visible aspect of an almost unimaginable disregard for marine life.

The irony is that the sport fisherman, unlike the hunter on land, can have his cake and eat it. By catching, recording and releasing the fish they can provide a sustainable income for the region and invaluable information for conservation science.

The attitude of the media must change as well. Just as they would not dream of publishing a picture of a big-game hunter standing next to a shot rhino, it must now be unacceptable to show people standing next to a shark or marlin strung up by its tail.

At the beginning of the 20th Century intensive over-hunting had caused the hugely numerous wild land animals to become endangered. At about the time Ernest Hemmingway wrote 'The Old Man and the Sea' in 1951 a growing wildlife protection movement for land animals was forming. By the 1960's and 70's the movement was in full swing (Joy Adamson's non-fictional book 'Born Free' was written in 1960).

No such large-scale conservation movement has been formed for marine animals, especially fish. If there is any hope of conserving these magnificent animals public attitudes to their slaughter will have to play catch-up with land conservation and change dramatically.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Marine Bill

At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century the world saw the need to protect the dwindling flora and fauna found on land. Famous parks like Kruger National Park, Yellowstone Park and Etosha were formed.

In the UK famous poets like Byron and Wordsworth inspired people to take an interest in the hitherto exploited and under appreciated countryside leading to the freedom to roam bill in 1884. The bill failed and eventually mass trespass (direct action) was seen as the only alternative and five men were imprisoned for this action.

100 years later we are in a similar, but worse, positon with our oceans, seas and coastlines. It has taken longer for the outrage of ordinary people to be felt because the damage done has not been visible.

Official Government statistics which show that two-thirds of all commercially caught fish in the UK are disgarded dead surely is the tipping point where we all should now say 'enough is enough' and finally start the sort of mass public outcry that this deserves.

This Government has promised us a Marine Bill which would start the process of protecting our seas and coastlines, but do not actually deem it important enough to pass this bill through Parliament.

So much for progressive politics, continuing to drag their heels on a priority that should probably have been looked at by the UK Government 100 years ago.

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Japanese financial giant Nomura profits from lack of fish

Japan's list of environmental sins is growing. If it wasn't already pushing the boundaries of acceptable behaviour by killing whales in the Southern Ocean and slaughtering dolphins in Taiji it

now seems that Japan's industrial and financial giants want to get in on the act.

Mitsubishi have tried to corner the market by stockpiling 40% of the world's supply of critically endangered bluefin tuna and now Nomura Securities Company appear to be doing similar with other overexploited fish and 'seafood' marine species.

As the world's fisheries fail and demand for fish increases, Nomura hope to make a killing by creating the world's first investment trust specifically targeting global 'seafood' and fisheries related businesses.

For more on this story visit here http://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?monthyear=&day=9&id=37607&l=e&special=&ndb=1%20target=

Please sign a petition to stop Nomura Inc. from investing in ocean extinction http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-nomura39s-16-billion-ocean-raid/

Thursday, June 28, 2012

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Monday, June 25, 2012

The IUCN sees red

Our marine ecosystem is under threat like never before in the history of humanity. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 33% of cartilaginous fishes and 15% of bony fishes are now threatened.

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) report states that due to overfishing, catches are seeing fewer and fewer large-bodied predatory fish, and more species lower on the food chain, such as jellyfish. Furthermore, overexploitation has put 20 species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List as threatened with extinction.

Due to overfishing, 19% of all fish stocks are now overexploited, 8% are depleted, 52% fully exploited, with only 1% showing signs of recovery according to the (CBD) Technical Report for the Global Biodiversity.

The UN biodiversity meeting in Japan has agreed a 10 year plan aimed at preserving 10% of the oceans by 2020. These are regarded as too small by many conservation scientists, who point out that the existing target for oceans is already 10%.

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

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Monday, June 18, 2012

Gannet success story to end along with discards?

Seabird populations have plummeted in the UK over the last few decades, mostly due to the overfishing of fish like sandeels, a vital food species for many seabirds. There has been one exception to this depressing trend, the northern gannet.

The UK gannet population has doubled since 1970, from roughly 100,000 birds to well over 200,000 today (56% of the world's population). It is believed that the reason for this spectacular success is the horrendous EU fishing industry policy of discarding unwanted fish.

The gannet is unique amongst UK seabirds in that it can dive from a great height, plunge into the ocean and grab fish that other seabirds cannot reach. It is also a large seabird, allowing it to outcompete most other seabirds when scavenging or foraging. When fishing boats throw unwanted and undersized fish overboard the gannet is well placed to take advantage of this completely unnatural bounty. Gannets may have also come to see fishing boats that are discarding fish as a reliable source of food. Dr Hamer, from Leeds' Faculty of Biological Sciences thinks that "gannets have different aptitudes and specialities and for some, that skill might be finding and following fishing boats."

If as expected gannet numbers plummet after discarding is banned, the one European seabird success story of the last few years will be seen to be due to nothing more than human folly. The folly of overfishing and waste, which benefited one specialised species of seabird for a time, but saw the greatest decline in overall seabird numbers in human history.