New rules threaten tuna extinction

PRESS RELEASE
GENEVA–Environmental campaigners on Wednesday condemned a new agreement on bluefish tuna fishing quotas, warning that the species still risked extinction because the deal did not go far enough.
“The fishing quota agreed by the ICCAT is incredibly shortsighted,” said Francois Simard, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
“It exceeds the recommended fishing [...]

Native fish are dying out, but it’s not too late

PETER MOYLE – REDDING.COM
Most people identify the Pacific Northwest with salmon, but, in fact, there are more than 30 kinds of salmon, steelhead and trout native to California. These iconic fish once supported fisheries all along the coast and in our mountainous interior, but their numbers are disappearing. As my colleagues at the University of [...]

Cold Causes More Stranded Sea Turtles

THE BOSTON CHANNEL
WELLFLEET, Mass. — Rapidly dropping temperatures have caused a high number of endangered sea turtles to wash ashore dead on Cape Cod beaches.
Thirty Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles — the most endangered sea turtles in the world — have been reported on the beaches since Thursday. Nineteen were dead.
Tony LaCasse, spokesman for the New [...]