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• Report: U.S. lax on whale, dolphin protections
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has failed to provide protections required by law to more than a dozen marine mammals potentially at risk of death or injury due to commercial fishing, congressional investigators said Wednesday. The report by the ...
• Bush creates three Pacific marine sanctuaries
WASHINGTON - Announcing the largest marine conservation effort in history, President George W. Bush on Tuesday designated three remote Pacific island areas as national monuments to protect them from energy extraction and commercial fishing. The three ...
• Cuba allows access to Hemingway papers
The collection of the late author's documents includes coded messages Hemingway compiled when he used his fishing boat, El Pilar, to ply the waters north of Cuba during World War II, believing German U-boats were using the area to refuel. HAVANA ...
• Lead for car batteries poisons an African town
The ocean used to supply a livelihood, but fishing hasn't been good the past few years. Young men have increasingly taken to trying to sneak into Europe aboard large canoes with outboard motors. For years, the town's blacksmiths extracted lead from ...
• Premium tuna fetches $100,000 at auction
Due to growing concerns over the impact of commercial fishing on the bluefin variety's survival, members of international tuna conservation organizations, including Japan, have agreed to cut their bluefin catch quota for 2009 by 20 percent to 22,000 ...