By:
JAY LINDSAY
01/28/12 10:30 AM
Whether they got lost, sick or swam astray chasing food, 77 dolphins that beached on Cape Cod in recent weeks have died, the second time in three months New England has seen a mass of marine mammal deaths.
Now, scientists are trying to figure out why.
They're also researching whether there's any connection to a die-off this fall of 162 harbor seals, whose carcasses were found between northern Massachusetts and Maine.
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The Associated Press
01/27/12 9:58 PM
Washington wildlife officials say eight sea lions have been found dead in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks — all apparently shot.
KING-TV reports (http://is.gd/s1aYqA ) that both the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are investigating the deaths.
The bodies of seven sea lions with bullet wounds were recently found on the Nisqually River.
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By:
DANICA COTO
01/26/12 3:17 PM
The U.S. government is imposing limits on the number of fish that commercial and recreational fishermen can catch in the waters it controls in the Caribbean, saying previous types of restrictions haven't protected dwindling populations of dozens of species.
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The Associated Press
01/26/12 11:33 AM
The nation's oceans chief has turned down a request made first by U.S. Sen. John Kerry for a new assessment of the health of Gulf of Maine cod.
New data indicate cod is badly overfished, and fishermen now face ruinous cuts in their catch of up to 90 percent from 2010 levels. The data have drawn skepticism from fishermen because they show a reversal from numbers in a major 2008 study that indicated the cod was healthy and getting stronger.
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By:
GENE JOHNSON
01/26/12 3:25 AM
Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life.
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The Associated Press
01/24/12 2:14 AM
U.N. marine experts say rising wealth in Asia and fishing subsidies are among factors driving overexploitation of the world's fish resources, while fish habitat is being destroyed by pollution and climate change.
U.N. experts warned in a report Tuesday that up to 32 percent of the world's fish stocks are overexploited, depleted or recovering. Up to half of the world's mangrove forests and a fifth of coral reefs that are fish spawning grounds have been destroyed.
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