The Australian government has condemned Japan's "regrettable" decision to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission and resume commercial whaling. The Japanese government's withdrawal from the global body, announced on Wednesday, will see commercial hunts in the country's territorial and economic waters start in July 2019. Announcing the decision, Chief Cabinet …
Efforts to protect the North Atlantic right whale have gone high-tech with the creation of an iPad/iPhone application that can warn mariners when they approach an area where the highly endangered mammals are congregating. The Whale Alert app, available for free download, uses global positioning system and other technology to …
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: A mass-stranding of whales on a New Zealand beach has left 36 of the creatures dead and threatens 40 more. Department of conservation area manager John Mason said 99 pilot whales stranded themselves on day on Farewell Spit on the South Island. By Tuesday, 36 whales had …
The future of the International Whaling Commission is tenuous. A ‘whale conservation market’ might rescue it, say Christopher Costello, Leah R. Gerber and Steven Gaines.
As has become almost routine in recent years, Japan’s annual whale hunt that began this week has kicked off to swirling controversy. But this year, onlookers are not only taking issue with the whaling expedition itself, but how extra funding for the trip is being drawn from money intended to …
More than 60 pilot whales died in a mass stranding at a remote New Zealand beach, conservation officials said yesterday. Tourists found the pod of 61 beached whales on Monday at Farewell Spit, on the top of the South Island, the Department of Conservation said. 18 whales remained alive till …
New Zealand has warned it faces its worst maritime environmental disaster after a stricken container ship off the nation’s coast sustained further damage and spewed up to 350 tonnes of oil into the Bay of Plenty. The Liberian-flagged Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef last week, issued a …
Preserving just 4 percent of the ocean could protect crucial habitat for the vast majority of marine mammal species, from sea otters to blue whales, according to researchers at Stanford University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Their findings were published in the Aug. 16 edition of the Proceedings …
In the world of environmental regulation, where the hope is to write rules that both industry and science can live with, few areas are as contentious as fishing. Especially on the East Coast, fishermen attack scientists as mired in bottomless ignorance about how fish are actually caught. Scientists sometimes describe …
The Environment Ministry today designated protected status to another 12 species under the Environment Protection Act. The protected species are all types of turtles found in the Maldives, dolphins, napoleon wrasse, giant clams, black coral, whale sharks, conch, all types of whales and corals, sharks, all types of clams, pregnant …
Small fish play a big role in the oceans and catches should be cut sharply to safeguard marine food chains from plankton to blue whales, an international team of experts said on Thursday. Rising human exploitation of little fish -- including anchovy, sardine, herring, mackerel and capelin -- had had …
Tiny algae and a whale native to the Pacific have crossed a thawing Arctic Ocean in what may portend a marine invasion threatening Atlantic fish stocks, scientists said on Sunday. The Pacific algae, absent from the North Atlantic for 800,000 years according to fossil records, apparently returned after climate change …
Wildlife experts and volunteers in the Florida Keys have rescued seven of a group of pilot whales stranded in shallow waters and are using boats and a helicopter to locate more of the animals, officials said on Friday. At least three of the group had died after around 16 of …
Rare sighting:The largest mammals on Earth seen off the Mangalore coast. KOCHI: Two blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), the largest mammals on Earth, were recently spotted off the Mangalore coast during a marine survey carried out by the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), Kochi. They were sighted
The Gulf oil spill has ruined a vital stretch of feeding habitat for whale sharks -probably one of the world's largest fish, says a new research. Around 4.9 million barrels of oil (one barrel is equivalent to 159 litres) flowed into an area south of the Mississippi River Delta, where …
European nations agreed on Friday to set up fishing-free zones in remote parts of the Atlantic Ocean in the world's first high seas network of protected areas beyond the control of national governments. Environment ministers from 15 European states, forming the OSPAR group overseeing the North-East Atlantic, said they would …
Humans have reduced the abundance of many large marine vertebrates, including whales, large fish, and sharks, to only a small percentage of their pre-exploitation levels. Industrial fishing and whaling also tended to preferentially harvest the largest species and largest individuals within a population. We consider the consequences of removing these …
400 sq m Of Marine Habitat Under Threat; Coast Guard Warns Of Oil SpillViju B | TNNMumbai: A cargo ship ran into a coral reef off the Kavaratti Island in Lakshadweep, damaging around 400 square metres of the pristine reef that
