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News stories for March 2007 Click the image or link to read the full story.
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31 March 2007
Malaysian authorities have seized several Chinese fishing boats off the northern coast of Borneo carrying cargoes of endangered marine turtles. |
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30 March 2007
Fishermen across Europe are to be banned from dumping billions of dead fish back into the sea in a move by Brussels designed to put an end to the “morally wrong” waste of sea life. |
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29 March 2007
Puget Sound's endangered killer whales have been spotted with a new calf, bringing the number of orcas to 86 as the whales feed on salmon along the California coast, scientists said. |
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28 March 2007
Turquoise fish with red dots stare at hungry tourists from a tank at a restaurant in Hong Kong, the capital of the world's live reef fish industry, a lucrative trade devastating reefs across the Pacific Ocean. |
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27 March 2007
A rare and endangered shark, not scientifically reported for more than a century, is among marine creatures that have been discovered by Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)researchers. |
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26 March 2007
Steamed Napoleon wrasse, which appears on the menu of several Manila restaurants, may sound delectable. But savouring it could hasten the extinction of a vanishing species, an international conservation group warned Thursday. |
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25 March 2007
The Malaysian Agriculture and Food Industry Ministry with the assistance of the police, navy and maritime authority will be deploying enforcement units in a concerted effort to curtail fish-bombing in Sabah waters. |
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24 March 2007
Japan's main whaling ship has arrived back in port after an Antarctic hunt hit by setbacks including a fatal fire. Despite being forced to end the hunting season early, the crew still killed 508 whales out of a target of 860. |
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23 March 2007
Fish, crab, lobster and clams, to name just a few -- is among the most popular foods in Indonesia. It is the food of choice, from lavish business dinners, wedding banquets and home-made meals, to thousands of roadside eateries that dot the archipelago. |
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22 March 2007
As National Geographic devotes its April issue to the global fisheries crisis, destructive fishing practices and ineffective fisheries management, the NFMS implements new rules to stop overfishing and rebuild depleted fish populations. |
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21 March 2007
Twenty of 162 grouper species are potentially threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive assessment of the fish, released this month. The grouper’s decline is driven by a lack of proper fisheries management and by overfishing – both fueled by our appetite for the fish. |
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20 March 2007
The critical base of the ocean food web is shrinking as the world’s seas warm, new NASA satellite data show. The discovery has scientists worried about how much food will grow in the future for the world’s marine life. |
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19 March 2007
Seven pilot whales that came ashore on the Galapagos Islands died Sunday, despite the efforts of rescuers who dug makeshift pools in the sand to keep them from dehydrating. Five other whales in the group were returned to the ocean. |
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18 March 2007
Scientists spent two years trawling the oceans for bacteria and viruses, and in the process discovered 6 million new genes, doubling the number known on Earth and holding promise for new antibiotics and alternative energy sources. |
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17 March 2007
The Earth has experienced its warmest December-February since records began 128 years ago, a US said in a report which has added fire to global warming concerns. A record warm January worldwide pushed average temperatures to 1.3 degrees Fahrenheit above normal for the 20th century, NOAH said. |
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16 March 2007
European scientists say global warming is having a significant impact on European marine and coastal environments. Recent research has shown the Northern Hemisphere has been warmer since 1980 than at any other time during the last 2,000 years... |
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15 March 2007
Australian oceanographers have found a huge, dense mass of cold water off Sydney, but don't know what causes it or its effect on the Tasman Sea. |
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15 March 2007
A Japanese fisherman drowned on Tuesday after a whale he was trying to rescue capsized his small fishing boat, a coastguard official said. |
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14 March 2007
The tropical Indonesian island of Bali has long been a mecca for tourists in search of fine white beaches and the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. |
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13 March 2007
Scotland should look to taking control of its seas up to 200 miles offshore, according to a report. An advisory committee set up by the Executive yesterday called for the creation of a Scottish marine management organisation... |
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12 March 2007
The sperm whale and its large prey, the jumbo squid, are among the deepest divers in the ocean, routinely reaching depths of 3,000 feet or more. Now, in a new study, a team of marine scientists reports the successful tagging of sperm whales and jumbo squid swimming together off Mexico's Pacific coast... |
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11 March 2007
A project to improve life along the coasts of the South West region of England is set to be launched. Finding Sanctuary aims to create a network of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) in which the needs of local people and the environment are balanced. |
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10 March 2007
A conservation group says the discovery of a dead Maui's dolphin at Raglan Beach on Friday highlights the urgent need to increase protection of the endangered mammal. |
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09 March 2007
Rising levels of carbon dioxide will have wide-ranging impacts on the world's oceans regardless of climate change, reports a study published in the March 9, 2007, issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters. |
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08 March 2007
Two-thirds of fish stocks in the world's high seas are overfished, while most of those closer to shore are failing or fished to the maximum, a new U.N. report said Monday. |
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07 March 2007
A new proposal to protect the waterway that separates Europe from Africa for some of the world’s most threatened whales and dolphins will be considered later this year by the 20 governments... |
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06 March 2007
Greenpeace today called on governments attending the biannual United Nations fisheries meeting in Rome this week to push for the implementation of a global network of fully protected marine reserves... |
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05 March 2007
The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has joined hands with a British retail chain and fishermen in Sri Lanka to introduce a turtle friendly fishing hook that would save the island’s endangered sea turtles. |
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04 March 2007
NOAA released the NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Research Plan, identifying priority research needs and guidance for coral reef research through 2011. The plan looks at key research objectives and long-term needs... |
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03 March 2007
A surprising discovery in the Antarctic has scientists alarmed. According to an analysis of core samples, the southern ice shelf reacts far more sensitively to warming temperatures than scientists had previously believed. |
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02 March 2007
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has warned that climate change poses as much of a danger to the world as war. |
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01 March 2007
Japanese whalers have officially called off their annual Antarctic whale hunt following a devastating fire aboard the fleet`s mother ship. Japan`s Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) has released a statement saying the whaling ships were on their way home early. |
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01 March 2007
U.S. researchers have discovered blue whales -- the largest mammals on Earth -- use calls tied to specific behavior and gender. |
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