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Sustainable Fisheries
Posts in this category are about Sustainable Fisheries. Most major fishery stocks internationally are in decline. Tailoring fishing quotas to the intensity of harvest that each population of fish can sustain and making sure to protect weak runs from by-catch will help restore healthier stocks. Restoring and maintaining the ecosystems upon which stocks depend will improve the natural landscape as well as the food supply.
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VENEZUELA: Chronic Oil Leaks Sully Lake Maracaibo, Livelihoods
Dark oil slicks are spreading from the middle of Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo
towards the shores -- the wetlands, mangroves, beaches and docks. Oil is
permeating fishing nets, coating the garbage dumped into the water, killing off
wildlife and driving away residents and tourists.
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(0)BP's Hayward to step aside as Gulf work resumes
LONDON (Reuters) - BP Plc is expected to announce changes at the top in the next 24 hours, with the anticipated departure of CEO Tony Hayward, who came under fire for his handling of the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
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China Dalian oil spill cleaned 9 days after accident
BEIJING (Reuters) - Nearly 8,000 workers and hundreds of fishing boats have managed to clean up the oil spill off the major northern Chinese port Dalian, nine days after a pipeline blast leaked 1,500 metric tons of heavy crude into the sea.
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