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How France Exterminates Its Dolphins

How France Exterminates Its Dolphins

From January through March, an average of 6,000 dolphins are killed each year on France’s west coast by large industrial trawlers and vessels fishing in pairs (nets dragged between two trawlers). That number could be as high as 10,000, according to the Pélagis Observatory, based in La Rochelle. That’s more than the number of dolphins […]

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    Gillnets Push Species to the Brink of Extinction

    Gillnets Push Species to the Brink of Extinction

    By Raffaella Tolicetti With reproductive instincts pushing them towards the Colorado River Delta, thousands of corvina fish are currently swimming with the tide along the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean. Making their way to the estuaries, where fresh water mixes with the saline components of the seas, these corvina are unaware that many of […]

    Obama Denies All Pending Permits for Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean

    Obama Denies All Pending Permits for Seismic Airgun Blasting in Atlantic Ocean

    By Claire Douglass The Obama administration formally denied today all pending permits to conduct seismic airgun blasting in the Atlantic Ocean. Seismic airgun blasting, an extremely loud and dangerous process used to search for oil and gas deposits deep below the ocean’s surface, was originally proposed in an area twice the size of California, stretching […]

    Salmon Farms Are Destroying Wild Salmon Runs, First Nations Say

    Salmon Farms Are Destroying Wild Salmon Runs, First Nations Say

    By Judith Lavoie Members of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw First Nation say salmon farms in their territory are destroying wild salmon runs and polluting clam beds and they must leave. Last week a small flotilla of boats from Kingcome Village, Gilford Village and Alert Bay, with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society‘s research vessel Martin Sheen in […]

    3 Vaquitas Found Dead: The Most Endangered Marine Mammal in the World

    3 Vaquitas Found Dead: The Most Endangered Marine Mammal in the World

    By Captain Oona Layolle It is high season for totoaba poaching. In response to the Asian black markets and their demand for the totoaba swim bladders, illegal fishermen, despite all our efforts in removing nets and working with the navy, are hitting the vaquita population hard. Asian countries need to take measures to curtail the […]

    Endangered Species Found Dead, Likely Result of Illegal Fishing

    Endangered Species Found Dead, Likely Result of Illegal Fishing

    Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has vowed to increase night patrols of the Vaquita Refuge in the Gulf of California after two endangered species were found dead this weekend—a presumed result of illegal fishing activity in the area. Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has vowed to increase night patrols of the Vaquita Refuge in the Gulf of […]