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Environmental activists are suing the federal government for allegedly failing to prevent longline fishing fleets from repeatedly accidentally catching a rare whale species off Hawaii.
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Thirteen years after the world rallied to curb overfishing, most nations are failing to abide by the U.N.’s code of conduct for managing fisheries, scientists...
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AP, Anchorage
Florence Johnson can rattle off myriad ways to prepare salmon. Drawing on a lifetime of fishing the Yukon River, she recommends canning, salting, or drying the fillets...
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AP, Grants Pass
Fisheries managers have canceled the early season of ocean fishing for chinook salmon off the coast of Oregon and Northern California because of a collapse of stocks in...
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Yet another proof to assert the phenomena of global warming! A group of fisheries ecologists and historians have sketched out the history of marine life in the northern...
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The government of Kerala has decided to develop the coastal region and the places near to the coastal area.
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This new study rules out the conventional theories behind the...
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AP, Boston
A federal research vessel struck an endangered right whale just off the coast of Massachusetts, but officials said the injuries don’t appear life threatening.
made popular Apr 22 2009
AP, Albany
Monitoring for endangered right whales off New York harbor is ending because the project has lost financing in the current budget crunch.
made popular Mar 15 2009
AP, Ponce Inlet
Scientists used sedatives to free an endangered right whale entangled in rope off Florida’s Atlantic Coast.
made popular Mar 10 2009
AP, Manila
Activists in the Philippines have rescued what they believe might be the smallest offspring of the world’s biggest fish _ a whale shark the size of a forearm, a...
made popular Mar 10 2009
AP, Morehead City
A rare, 30-foot right whale had to be euthanized after it stranded itself on a remote North Carolina beach, officials said.
made popular Jan 30 2009
AP, Savannah
Wildlife conservationists are still monitoring an endangered right whale tangled in fishing gear in the Atlantic off the Georgia coast, but windy weather hasn’t...
made popular Jan 20 2009
AP, Savannah
Wind and choppy seas were frustrating efforts Friday to free an endangered right whale tangled in fishing gear as it swam from the Georgia coast into waters off...
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AP, Sydney
An Australian man was caught by surprised when a large whale whacked him lightly on the head with its tail as he unknowingly scooted over it while kite surfing.
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AP, Washington
The federal government has declared that the beluga whale in Alaska’s Cook Inlet is endangered and will require additional protection to survive.
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It is hard to believe that in this age that this bloody massacre annually takes place on Faroe Island in a country that claims to be a civilized member of the European...
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AP, Santiago
Chile is making its entire Pacific Ocean territorial waters a whale sanctuary.
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AP, Frankfurt
A humpback whale who roamed the Baltic Sea has made his way to the North Sea, where he can meet up with other whales and build up his winter fat reserves .
made popular Sep 9 2008
This is the breathtaking moment a humpback whale was caught on camera leaping from the sea.
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AP, Berlin
A humpback whale that roamed the Baltic Sea has been spotted in Swedish waters south of Goteberg and is believed headed further north.
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AP, Sydney
Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother.
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AP, Sydney
Australian media say a lost humpback whale calf has bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother.
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AP, Berlin
Germans have been treated to the rare sight of a lone and wayward humpback whale swimming in the Baltic Sea, but marine biologists said it may be doomed because the...
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A beluga whale blows bubbles at an aquarium in Japan to the delight of visitors who have come by the thousands to view the spectacle.
The whale is one of three that...
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AP, London
British wildlife experts and the coast guard struggled on Friday to save the life of a sick, 26-foot-long (8-meter-long) whale that was freed from a mudflat where it...
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In this Tuesday, March 24, 2009 photo released by the Department of Environment and Conservation, rescuers lower a whale into the water at Flinders Bay as they attempt to get it back out to see after it was found beached in Hamelin Bay, Western...
