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Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas turns up in international corruption scandal
The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas (PP) is involved in a corruption affair concerning fish quotas in Namibia. This has emerged from research by research collective Spit for De Groene Amsterdammer. The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der...
Namibia Auctions Fishing Rights to Raise Money for Corona Virus
JOHANNESBURG - Namibia plans to auction the right to catch horse mackerel and hake off its coast to foreign fishing vessels to urgently raise money to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s fisheries ministry on Monday announced plans to sell 60% of its...
Trump Allows Commercial Fishing in Marine Conservation Area
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled back protections Friday at a marine conservation area off the New England coast, signing an order to allow commercial fishing in a stretch of water environmentalists say is critical for endangered right whales and...
Russia Declares Emergency After 20.000 tons of Oil Spill in Siberia
The leak of more than 20,000 tons of diesel in Siberia, said to be one of the country’s worst such accidents, turned a river crimson and was heading for the ocean. By The New York Times MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has declared a state of emergency...
Drone Captured What Could Be The Largest Swarm Of Sea Turtles Ever Filmed
Ostional National Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica welcomes thousands of female sea turtles every year. They arrive on the sea beach to lay their eggs, and Vanessa Bézy, a biologist, has been studying this mass arrival for many years. But it was in November 2016 that...
Japanese Whale Hunters Kill 122 Pregnant Whales
Humane Society International has expressed outrage that Japanese whale hunters killed 122 pregnant female whales year in the Southern Ocean as part of Japan's whaling program NEWREP-A.The information was contained in newly published meeting papers from the...
New Menu For Japanese School Lunches: Whale Meat
Six-year-old Reto Aisaka was jumping up and down on the windswept dock. For five months, he'd been counting the days until his dad, Toru, returned from a whale hunt with whale meat. The boy was up at dawn to meet him. Shimonoseki, on the westernmost tip of Japan's...
Fishermen Mass to Overwhelm Mexico’s Protected Vaquita Porpoises
In this Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019 photo released by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, dozens of endangered totoaba fish are seen captured inside small fishing boats in the Gulf of California, near San Felipe, Mexico. Sea Shepherd operates in the area to remove the...
Iceland Plans to Kill Over 2000 Whales Within the Next Five Years
ICELAND is planning to slaughter more than 2,000 whales within the next five years in a move that has sparked fury. Whalers will be allowed to harpoon 209 fin whales and 217 minke whales every year until 2023. Despite a declining global market for whale meat and...
Faroe Islands: How Much Whales Were Murdered This Year So Far? The Facts
The numbers of dolphins and pilot whales killed by the Faroese in the 12 brutal grindadrap hunts so far in 2019 is as follows: Wall of Shame 2019 1st January at Trongisvágur (Øravík) - 70 Long Finned Pilot Whales Killed29th April at Sandavágur - 105 Long Finned Pilot...
Sabah Whale Shark Died Of Starvation After Eating Plastic Bags
KOTA KINABALU (Sabah) — A whale shark that washed ashore on Tanjung Aru Beach in Menumbuk, Kuala Penyu, was found to have starved to death after ingesting a plastic bag. The 4.61m male whale shark carcass was found by a teacher when jogging along the beach. Sabah...
Japan Whaling Fleet Kills 223 Whales in 2019
Japan: The notorious Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru returned to port. The whaling fleet killed 187 Bryde’s whales, 25 sei whales and 11 minke whales. Three species that average 45, 65 and 30 feet in length, returning with 1,430 tons of whale meat. A lower total...
HAPPENING RIGHT NOW: Another Grind Taking Place In The Faroe Islands
Since half past ten this morning another school of pilot whales was spotted by the Faroese. The grind is taking place north of Hoyvík in Tangafjörður. About 20 - 30 pilot fin whales are to be killed brutally by the locals. The Faroe Islands' ritual pilot whale hunt is...
Export of Fish Meal from Africa a Threat to Millions in Africa, say Greenpeace
African workers are working in terrible conditions in a fish meal factory in Mauritania DAKAR, June 20 — The exporting of tonnes of fish oil and fish meal from Africa to China and Europe poses a serious danger to the diets of millions of Africans, the Greenpeace...
Cruise Ship Company Carnival Fined $28M For Pumping Pollution Into Oceans
Miami: The world's largest cruise line company, Carnival, has agreed to pay a $US20 million ($28 million) penalty because its ships continued to pollute the oceans despite a previous criminal conviction aimed at curbing similar conduct. Senior US district judge...
VIDEO: Men Cut Off Shark’s Tail And Release It, Now Face Possible Criminal Charges
Meet Iceland's biggest sadist retards cutting off a Greenland shark's tail and releasing it back. Two seamen, Halldór Gústaf and Gunnar Þór, recorded themselves cutting the tail off of what appears to be a Greenland shark, laughing about it, before tossing it back...
Mexico: Customs agents seize 10 tonnes of shark fins in Manzanillo
toms agents in Manzanillo, Colima, have confiscated a large haul of illegal shark fins bound for the Philippines.
Faroe Islands: Another 40 Pilot Whales Murdered in the 5th Grind this Year
In the Danish Faroe Islands the fifth grind took place in the evening of May the 26th in the village Hvalba. The Faroer news agencies state the number of murdered pilot whales between 30 and 40. Hvalba is a place of the Danish Faroe Islands in the north of the east...
Entire Family of Sperm Whales Entangled in Gillnets Dies in Algeria
Algeria: A family of four sperm whales entangled in gillnets drowned near the coast of east Algiers. A dramatic scene took place in Algeria the 16th of may when a family of sperm whales got entangled in illegal drifting nets which are used to catch swordfish. The...
Great Britain: 100 Dead Sharks Wash Up With Their Fins Cut Off in Wales
Up to 100 sharks washed up dead on a beach in Wales, with some suspecting foul play. A video posted on Facebook showed the sharks strewn across the beach in Carmarthenshire, Wales, with the woman who filmed the clip estimating around 100 dead sharks on the...
Japan Begins Last Round of ‘Research’ Whaling Off Pacific Coast
Japanese whaling vessels launched on Saturday the last round of what Japan calls scientific research off the Pacific coast ahead of the country's pullout from the International Whaling Commission next month for commercial hunting. Japan will resume commercial whaling...
Indonesia sinks 51 fishing boats over illegal fishing
Workers flood the cargo bay of a Vietnamese-flagged boats with water to sink it in the waters off Datuk Island, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Authorities sank 51 foreign fishing boats caught operating illegally in the Indonesian waters as it...
Giant Chinese fishing fleet made up of 245 ships depredates the Galapagos protection zone
245 boats are located two nautical miles from the Galapagos protection zone.A gigantic Chinese fishing fleet made up of 245 ships depredates the marine fauna a few miles from the Galapagos protection zone. The National Navy announced that this activity has been...
Norway: 15 Whales Already Killed In The First Month Of 2019 Whaling Season
Already 15 whales have been killed in Norway April 1st was the first day of Norway's whaling season. So far 15 minke whales ranging 6-8 meters have been harpooned by 3 vessels. It is expected that there will be more vessels joining in on the hunt throughout the rest...
Argentina sinks Chinese fishing boat Lu Yan Yuan Yu 010
This image published on the coastguard website showed the confrontation between the two vessels Argentina's coastguard chased and sank a Chinese vessel that it says was fishing illegally in Argentine waters on Monday. In a statement, the coastguard said one of its...
Nine Million Fish Killed By Diseases At Salmon Farms in Scotland
Dead salmon dump on North Uist in September 2018 At least nine million fish have been killed by diseases, botched treatments, poor handling and other problems at salmon farms around Scotland since 2016, according to official returns. Caged salmon companies have...
Over 3000 Dolphins Found Dead on the Coast of Peru
Along just one stretch of coastline in Peru, more than 3,000 dead dolphins have washed ashore in just the last 3 months, and the disturbing trend may only be escalating. With the latest discovery of 481 lifeless dolphins there in recent days, residents have begun to...
Chinese Clam Poachers Destroying Entire Reef in The Philippines
MANILA, Philippines — Chinese poachers are making “thousands of dollars” by extracting giant clams in the Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea and selling them, a US think tank expert said. But such a lucrative business has also destroyed the resource-rich...
Indonesia: Oil Spill Larger Than Paris Ravages Island
An oil spill in Indonesia Borneo has now spread across an area greater than the city of Paris and is heading out to the open ocean, the Indonesian government said. The spill, first reported on March 31, stems from a pipeline operated by state-owned oil firm Pertamina...
Each Day A Cruise Ship Emits As Much Pollution As A Million Cars
Air quality on cruise ship deck 'worse than world's most polluted cities', investigation finds. Levels of pollution on some cruise ships' decks are worse than in the world's most polluted cities, an investigation by Channel 4 Dispatches has found. ...
