Duke study gives first worldwide measure of sea turtle casualties by longline fishing
...said. By international agreement, longline fishing boats might be required to install sensors so that satellites can be used to monitor them for compliance. Such "vessel monitoring systems" are already used off regions like New England, where both cod and scallop fishing are banned in large areas, he said....Staying close to mother helps baby dolphins swim
... journal, Journal of Biology. Fleeing from fishing boats is likely to disrupt the positioning of mother-calf dolphin pairs, causing the younger dolphins to get permanently separated from their mothers. Daniel Weihs, an aerospace engineer at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, has modeled the com...Whales, seals or men? Who stole all the fish?
...take into account where marine mammals and fishing boats spend their time. Kaschner scoured reported sightings of 115 species of marine mammals. For each sighting, she noted ocean depth, water temperature, and distance from the ice edge. This gave her a crude picture of where each species prefers to live w...Workforce achievements celebrated at NASA Marshall Center Awards ceremony
... engine emissions and improve gas mileage in cars, boats and recreational vehicles. Marshall's Technology Transfer Award recognizes excellence in applying NASA technology to commercial uses. Recipients were Jeff Finckenor, Anthony R. Kelley, Alok K. Majumdar and Mark V. Vaccaro, Engineering Directorate; Ti...Sensors at Watts Bar being evaluated by ORNL
..., Tenn., Aug. 24, 2004 -- Hundreds of barges, tow boats and recreational craft passing through Watts Bar on the Tennessee River will be monitored for nuclear material as part of an effort to thwart terrorists. The project, scheduled to start in September, is a collaboration among the Department of Energy'...Study in Science reveals recreational fishing takes big bite of ocean catch
...ng systems to find fish, and powerful, far-ranging boats to travel far offshore technologies that make them every bit as effective as their commercial counterparts. "Recreational fishing in the ocean has lost much of its art," says Coleman. "Someone with absolutely no fishing ability can go out on a chart......ams in the area reported seeing few if any fishing boats in the dead zone area," DiMarco says. "But we were surprised to see a lot of fishing boats, especially shrimp boats, there. That means marine life has returned to the area where just three weeks before, the oxygen levels were recorded as being extrem...