Solutions to stop fishermen returning dead and dying marine animals back into sea - study
...lternate means. "Granting better access to fishing grounds or allowing more fishing time to those who fish more selectively are methods that have proved successful. Once these incentives are created, fishermen's knowledge should be used to develop acceptable fishing techniques and short-term losses would qu...Old riverbed keeps chemicals from entering Ohio River
...arby Ohio River. Beneath sand and gravel on the grounds of Barium and Chemical Inc. in Steubenville, OH, lies an aquifer that contains chemicals such as nitrate and barium that the company dumped there when such dumping was still legal, before the 1980s. The company is now working with the United States E...New study links low fish supply to increased bushmeat hunting
...ng a certain number of boats access to the fishing grounds for a specified period of time, with no limits on the catch. "It's as if someone gave you three shopping carts for a day at a supermarket and told you that you wouldn't need to go through the cashier," he said. "Of course, people wouldn't go to the p...Injured whooping crane recovering at USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
...us who had been rescued from the northern breeding grounds in Canada in 1964 after he was found with a broken wing. Canus lived and reproduced successfully at Patuxent for almost 40 years. The USGS Patuxent is active in several whooping crane recovery and research programs. Currently, the facility produc...What have scientists learned since Mount St. Helens erupted?
... Many migrant songbirds were still on their winter grounds in Mexico and Central America when the eruption oc..., and had not yet returned to their summer nesting grounds at Mount St. Helens. Biological legacies--living and dead--accelerated recovery. Surviving plants...Hudson's Bay Company fur trapping policies set stage for modern environmental struggles
... It had to expand because its old beaver trapping grounds were in decline and this expansion brought ecologi... these furs than in protecting its richer trapping grounds in the interior. Nevertheless, because of the company's focus on profits, stocks of both sea otter ...Secrets of whales' long-distance songs are being unveiled
...bling. "Many whales have very traditional feeding grounds and their migratory routes occur along shallow coastlines which are now some of the noisiest, most heavily impacted habitats," Clark explains. But often it is along these routes that the male songs are sent long distance to prospective females, who m...... is doubling. Whales have very traditional feeding grounds and their migratory routes along coastlines have become incredibly noisy, urbanized habitats, Clark explains. Acoustic smog is shrinking their world. The Whale in the Coal Mine Cataloging Ocean Pollution Roger Payne and Scott McVay were the first ...El Nino forecasting could aid fisheries management, disease control, marine species protection
...ulators could then prejudge where existing fishing grounds should be closed, and whether fishermen could be productively directed to alternatives sites, Barber suggested. And naval ships planning sonar exercises could avoid maneuvering in range of vulnerable marine mammals. Barber's talk will be delivered at...South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
...es and 270 fish species. It is also the wintering grounds for a large number of migratory birds that summer in North America. According to an analysis by UNU-PREP and the Japan-based UNU Institute for Advanced Studies: "While large parts of the Pantanal have remained pristine, today the ecosystem is under u...Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
...new Groundfish Conservation Areas put some fishing grounds off limits, the scientists note. Which animals live once returned to the sea depends on the organism; for instance, species of rockfish all tend to die while lingcod and sablefish are among the fish with better survival rates. "This research is inte...Scientists' pied piper approach may have found Nemo faster
...echnique could be used to restock depleted fishing grounds near reefs, or to populate newly established conservation areas. The study, which focuses on damselfish and cardinalfish in the Pacific Ocean, also warns that 'unnatural' noises created by shipping and drilling may be depleting fish stocks in sensiti...Migration study finds that sweeping management changes are needed to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna
...ercial fishing to protect the feeding and breeding grounds of this top migratory predator--one of the most co...vealed that western bluefin from the Gulf spawning grounds routinely swim together as adolescents and adults with their eastern cousins that were spawned in th...How monarch butterflies are wired for navigation
...terfly to extend its survival in its overwintering grounds in Mexico....Research casts doubt on circulating stem cells
...f all trades" not least because some studies gave grounds for hope. Using irradiation techniques, researchers managed to destroy the bone marrow in mice and replace it with cells which became green-fluorescent thanks to a genetic addition. A short time later they then discovered green-fluorescent nerve cell...Genetics links whale to two different ocean basins
...in biopsies collected from whales in the wintering grounds of both the Indian and South Atlantic Oceans for evidence of inter-oceanic exchange of individuals. Using a method of genetic capture-recapture of genotypes constructed of microsatellite markers, the researchers identified an individual whale sampled...Ultralight plane migrating with monarch butterflies to land in Washington
... will arrive at the butterflies' Mexican wintering grounds in November....Penguin chicks exposed to human visitors experience spike in stress hormone
...ewly hatched magellanic penguin chicks in breeding grounds with a large number of human visitors show a significant spike in levels of a stress-related hormone compared to chicks hatched in areas not visited by humans, a University of Washington research team has found. It wasn't until chicks with limited h......ore than 70 fish species and are critical breeding grounds for commercially important populations of gag and scamp grouper as well as rock shrimp. The reefs' location directly under the Gulf Stream makes them a potentially important source of fish larvae for the entire southeast U.S. continental shelf. Harbo...Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds
...red birds are released near marine mammal breeding grounds along the West Coast. "Condors eat carrion, they don't kill for food," says C. Page Chamberlain, lead author of the PNAS study and chair of Stanford's Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences. "What we're proposing is a conservation strate...