Critter News

JANUARY 7, 2009

When you add the roughly 335,000 square-mile-area in the Pacific that is now protected from virtually all fishing to the nearly 700,000 square miles he closed to bottom trawling, the most destructive kind of fishing gear, this president has given future generations an ocean gift nearly the size of Texas and Alaska combined.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

On a visit yesterday after work to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn I happened across this female Red-breasted Merganser that I initially thought was in the midst of struggling to swallow a nasty chunk of some kind of marine life. If it is, say, the innards of some kind of fish does that make it less of a priority to help the bird?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 23, 2009

I understand that they are trying to encourage people to eat fish and other marine life that are not part of a collapsing fishery. If you are eating a fish, you are still eating a living thing. For the past couple of issues I've read, it has had a "sustainable seafood recipe."

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Critter News

MARCH 28, 2010

Nations where livelihoods depend on fishing the tuna and on harvesting other marine species held sway over countries, including the US, that pointed to scientific evidence of drastically dwindling populations. Japan, which imports most of the tuna, led the fight against a proposed ban.

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Endangered Species Science Species Japan 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2013

These nutrient-rich currents provide sustenance for a variety of marine-life, including the many thousand of seabirds that call this place home. These mangroves function as a sanctuary for fish and other animals that then make their way as adults across the channel to the coral reefs that surround the island.

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Whales Whaling Sharks Marine Life 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Surrounded by coral reefs filled with fish, sea turtles of three species plus the common visits of Manta Rays: it is a pretty exciting place for anyone who likes to skin dive. It is also a great place for the birder for the fish have brought the birds and the island has supplied places to nest. They are everywhere. Buff banded Rail.

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Sea Turtles Birds Marine Life Fish 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

It is popular with surfers for its great waves and divers fro its profusion of marine life. The Great Astrolabe Reef is an internationally famous barrier reef that runs along the length of Kadavu.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

KING-TV reports that both the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are investigating the deaths. Washington wildlife officials say eight sea lions have been found dead in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks — all apparently shot.

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Sea Lions Lions Wounded Washington 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

What put this once small fishing town on the map was not birds but mammals, specifically whales and dolphins. Being a convenient stop between the ferry town of Picton and the city of Christchurch didn’t hurt, but it was the chance to get up close and personal with marine mammals that turned the place into a popular tourist destination.

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