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- 17 on trial in Sweden for illegal fishing of threatened cod
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Seventeen people went on trial in Sweden Wednesday for illegally fishing more than 100 tonnes of cod, increasing pressure on threatened fish stocks, in the Scandinavian country's largest ever poaching case. Sixteen fishermen stand charged in the Varberg district court in southwestern Sweden of illegally pulling...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- China sets up first environmental exchange
- BEIJING AFP — China on Tuesday launched its first environmental exchange in Beijing, aiming to eventually provide a platform for emission quota trading, the parent company and state media said. The Beijing Environmental Exchange will be a trading platform for environmental protection technology as well as sulfur dioxide and...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- NOAA cracks down on maiming of sharks
- WASHINGTON AP -- To curb the illegal practice of removing shark fins at sea, U.S. officials announced Thursday that all sharks caught in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico must be brought ashore with their fins attached. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration also reduced by 85...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
- EU to shut down industrial bluefin tuna fishing early
- BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission said on Friday it was shutting down industrial tuna fishing in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic for the rest of the year because quotas for 2008 were nearly full. The move targets fishing by purse seiners, which encircle whole schools of fish and...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- Nigeria to probe abuse of 'expatriate quota' by foreign oil companies
- ABUJA AFP — The Nigerian government will investigate allegations that international oil companies operating in the upstream sector employ more foreigners than allowed by the law, an official statement said. Junior petroleum minister Odein Ajumogobia told leaders of the blue-collar oil union NUPENG that his ministry would collaborate with...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- US hits quota on visas for professionals; random lottery set
- WASHINGTON AFP — US authorities said Tuesday they had received too many applications for a visa program for skilled workers for the coming year, meaning a random lottery will determine the winners. The completion of the 65,000 annual quota for the H-1B visa program, used for many high-tech professionals,...
- Research articles 2008-04-08
- Consensus reached to fight tuna overfishing: Japan
- TOKYO AFP — Tuna eating and catching nations agreed Thursday to review rules to fight chronic overfishing, paving the way for stricter catch quotas later this year, Japanese officials said. Officials, scientists and fisheries industry people from 13 nations held two days of talks in Tokyo amid concern that...
- Research articles 2008-03-27
- Mediterranean tuna at risk from 'bloated' fishing fleet: WWF
- GENEVA AFP — The Mediterranean tuna fishing fleet is so large that its capacity is nearly twice the current quotas, and some 200 ships should be scrapped to conserve stocks, environmental group WWF said Wednesday. "The failure of international fisheries management has allowed a monster to thrive in the...
- Research articles 2008-03-11
- Australian company claims tuna breeding breakthrough
- SYDNEY AFP — An Australian aquaculture company claimed a world first Tuesday in artificially breeding endangered southern bluefin tuna. Clean Seas Tuna said the successful collection of significant quantities of tuna sperm and eggs from captive fish at a breeding facility in South Australia would allow sustainable production of...
- Research articles 2008-03-03
- Conservation group cries 'scandal' over French plans for fish quotas
- BRUSSELS AFP — Global conservation group WWF described as a "scandal" Sunday suggestions by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that EU fishing quotas be eased, saying the limits must if anything be toughened. "If Mr Sarkozy's idea is to soften the system to increase fishing opportunities, that's a scandal," Charles...
- Research articles 2008-01-20
- EU plans to charge for pollution rights ruffle feathers
- BRUSSELS AFP — EU plans to make companies pay for the right to pollute have come under fierce fire from governments and industry, warning they could force business and jobs to leave Europe. As part of a broad strategy for fighting climate change, the European Commission is to unveil...
- Research articles 2008-01-20
- Tuna sells for record 55,700 dollars in Japan
- TOKYO AFP — A Hong Kong sushi restaurant owner Saturday paid a record 55,700 dollars for a massive bluefin tuna in the first auction of the year at the world's largest fish market in Tokyo, an official and media reports said. The 276-kilogram (607-pound) bluefin tuna -- caught off...
- Research articles 2008-01-04
- EU cuts cod fishing in Atlantic
- BRUSSELS AFP — EU fisheries ministers netted a deal in the early hours of Wednesday to reduce fishing quotas next year although environmentalists warned that the cuts did not go far enough to save stocks. In marathon talks in Brussels, the ministers agreed to cut cod quotas by between...
- Research articles 2007-12-19
- FISHERIES : EU TO PAY FOR 2007 BLUEFIN TUNA QUOTA OVERSHOOT.
- Though it had to accept paying compensation for exceeding its fishing quotas, the European Commission says it is satisfied with the results of the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas ICCAT organised in Antalya Turkey. This session closed on 16...
- Research articles 2007-11-30
- DAIRY PRODUCTS : ANALYSTS PREFER SOFT LANDING' TO ABRUPT ABOLITION OF MILK QUOTAS.
- The impact of the abolition of EU milk quotas on the European dairy sector is the subject of a study carried out by the French Institut d'Economie Industrielle IDEI at the request of the European Commission. The study forms part of the reflection p The impact...
- Research articles 2008-04-11
- Bulgaria to challenge EU quota on cutting emissions
- SOFIA AFP — Bulgaria wants to renegotiate its 2008-2012 carbon dioxide emissions quota set by the European Commission and may challenge it in court, Environment Minister Dzhevdet Chakarov said Wednesday. "Bulgaria is seriously harmed by the European Commission's decision and will take every step possible to have it revised....
- Research articles 2007-11-14
- Feds Flunk First Test of New Fish Law
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Dave Bard of the National Environmental Trust, +1-202- 486-4426, or Jo Knight of the Pew Charitable Trusts, +1-202-552- 2070 Fishery managers ignore own scientists, fail to follow mandate to end overfishing of summer flounderWASHINGTON, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, ignoring scientific advice...
- Research articles 2007-11-13
- Faroes go against the current for a sustainable fishing industry
- TORSHAVN AFP — At the Torshavn docks, Ola Jacobsen is busy preparing his fishing boat for the coming season. Unlike most fishermen, his quota is set in days instead of tonnes, part of the Faroe Islands' new ecological fishing policy. The system, designed to prevent fishermen from throwing excess...
- Research articles 2007-10-28
- Milk quotas slated
- Europe's milk quota system got another pasting this week, this time from Russel Mildon, director of agricultural markets in the European Commission's agriculture directorate. He said quotas were anachronistic.
- Research articles 2007-10-27
- Norway's whalers fail to meet quota for 2007
- OSLO AFP — Norwegian whalers killed only half of the total number of minke whales they were entitled to hunt this year, the Norwegian Fisheries Directorate said on Friday. Whalers were authorised to hunt 1,052 animals in 2007. But the 33 whaling ships harpooned only 592, the directorate said....
- Research articles 2007-10-26
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