News tagged with fishing boat
Cliffhanging corals avoid trawler damage
Bottom trawling fishing boats have devastated many cold water coral reefs along the margin of the North East Atlantic Ocean. Now, researchers have found large cold water coral colonies clinging to the vertical ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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Fishing boat lands World's oldest underwater human bone
A fishing boat trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast has instead landed a 40,000 year-old human bone, German scientists said on Sunday after examining the find.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jul 26, 2009 |
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Shark fin soup to blame for blue shark decline
Scientists say the market for shark fin soup is the likeliest reason for the sharp drop in blue shark numbers over the last 30 years.
Mar 09, 2012 |
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Tsunami debris floating across Pacific toward US
(AP) -- Refrigerators, TVs and other debris dragged into sea when a massive earthquake hit Japan last March, causing tsunamis as high as 130 feet to crash ashore, could show up in remote atolls north of Hawaii ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Drought shrinks China's largest freshwater lake
China's largest freshwater lake has shrunk to its smallest size in years due to drought, state media and officials said Thursday, endangering the ecology in the area and fishermen's livelihoods.
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Tsunami debris found 3,000 km from Japan coast
A Russian ship has found debris from the Japanese tsunami, including a fishing boat, floating adrift in the Pacific thousands of kilometres from the disaster zone, a Hawaiian research group said.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2011 |
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Abalone are treasured -- nearly to extinction
The authorities popped him near the docks in Port Angeles. On a March afternoon in 1994, a sleek fishing boat -- not-so-subtly named the Abalone Made -- came ashore after puttering around Freshwater Bay. The waiting cops ...
May 13, 2009 |
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Thieving whale caught on video gives rare clues about hunting strategy, sound production
For decades scientists have been intrigued by the variety of sounds emitted by sperm whales, partly due to a popular theory that suggests that the sounds might contain information about the animals' size. ...
May 21, 2009 |
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Third of open ocean sharks face extinction: study
A third of the world's open water sharks -- including the great white and hammerhead -- face extinction, according to a major conservation survey released Thursday.
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Madagascar marine resources plundered by international seafood markets
Fish catches in Madagascar over the last half-century are double the official reports, and much of that fish is being caught by unregulated traditional fishers or accessed cheaply by foreign fishing vessels. Seafood exports ...
Jun 17, 2011 |
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Fishing discard ban could damage sea bird success, scientists warn
A proposed EU ban on throwing unwanted fish overboard from commercial boats could put one of the North Sea's most successful sea birds at risk, say researchers at the University of Leeds.
Mar 22, 2010 |
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Study: Loggerhead turtles put at risk by fishing
(AP) -- It's a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch.
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Lead poisoning threatens a vulnerable albatross population
(PhysOrg.com) -- Populations of Laysan albatross face severe declines due to widespread lead poisoning of chicks unless comprehensive cleanup measures gain momentum, according to a recent study.
Oct 28, 2009 |
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From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn
(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.
Oct 25, 2009 |
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