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Tag Archives: sea
Rubbish in the oceans
As teams from several countries search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, they’re finding a lot of rubbish. Laura Parker at National Geographic tells us how this shines a spotlight on giant ocean garbage patches.
Proud of the Fish Fight
The European Union changed its policy last year, to stop good fish being discarded dead from boats. Here’s celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall crowing about the Fish Fight. No more discards in European seas! I’m proud of the Fish Fight too. … Continue reading
Posted in fish
Tagged conservation, Europe, finfish, fish discards, fisher, fishery, fishing, hunting, law, politics, sea, vertebrate, wild food
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GM oilseeds for Britain?
This year in Britain, we heard there’d be no GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered, biotech) crops. It didn’t last. A new GM crop might soon be field-tested here. Eventually this crop might reduce pressure on overfished seas. A land plant … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, fish, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, algaculture, algae, aquaculture, Atlantic salmon, bioaccumulation, biotechnology, blue mussel, brassica, brown crab, brown trout, butternut squash, conservation, crop, false flax, fat, fatty acid, feed, finfish, fishery, fishing, flax, genetic modification, grocery, hemp, hunting, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, linseed, nut, nutrition, oilseed, oilseed Omega Camelina, oyster, pecan, plant_dicot, rainbow trout, research, sea, seed, skipjack tuna, sustainable, trade, value-added, vertebrate, wild food
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New Marine Conservation Zones around England
New Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs) will soon be created in English seas to protect coral reefs and other marine life. Yesterday Auntie Beeb told us that there are to be 27 new MCZs. ‘Announcing the 27 new zones, marine environment … Continue reading
Bycatch: 1 for the price of 10
Originally posted on A Perspective Study:
Bycatch is a real and growing problem. We are catching more fish unintentionally than ever before thanks the to large-scale implementation of bottom trawling, a fishing technique in which ships as big as supertankers…
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Tagged bycatch, conservation, finfish, fishing, hunting, invertebrate, marine conservation zone, politics, sea, seabed, seafood, shellfish, trawling, vertebrate, wild food
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Wind power and nuclear power
Here in Britain our Energy Secretary is Edward Davey. This week he announced that the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DOCC), which he leads, will invest more in offshore wind farms to generate electricity. This comes just two weeks … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged Davey_Edward, Department of Energy and Climate Change, energy, fuel, history, nuclear power, politics, sea, wind farm
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Corals can fight ocean acidification
argylesock says… An encouraging title. But do read the article. Global warming means bleached corals and acidifying ocean water. Those corals aren’t likely to cope well with that water. I’ve mentioned before how these kinds of change have knock-on effects … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, fish, food, weather and climate
Tagged acidification, climate, coral, ecosystem, research, sea, sponge
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Climate change: how hot will it get in my lifetime?
Duncan Clark at the Guardian says, ‘The UN [United Nations] is to publish the most exhaustive examination of climate change science to date, predicting dangerous temperature rises.’ Here’s the press release from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), … Continue reading
Posted in weather and climate
Tagged acidification, climate, data, fossil fuel, sea, temperature, weather
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How UK water companies are polluting Britain’s rivers and beaches
Originally posted on Stop Making Sense:
From The Guardian: The most persistent and frequent polluters of England’s rivers and beaches are the nation’s 10 biggest water companies, an Observerinvestigation has revealed. The companies, which are responsible for treating waste water and delivering clean…
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Tagged coastline, ecosystem, law, pollution, sea, water, waterway
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