Conservation & Environment
NOAA Fisheries Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service propose listing changes for loggerhead turtle
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NOAA’s Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), announced their joint determination that the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is globally comprised of nine distinct population segments (DPSs) that qualify as “species” for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
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Rare northern right whales were not hunted to the brink
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One of the rarest whales in the world was not a victim of extensive whaling as previously supposed. Fewer than 350 North Atlantic right whales remain, with the blame for their demise laid at the harpoon tips of 16th and 17th century whalers.
But a new study of ancient whale bones confirms the population of northern right whales has for centuries been small with a limited genetic diversity. That strongly suggests a mass cull of the animals never took place.
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Bottom fishing ban may be heading south
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Snapper and grouper fishing might have just opened up again.
On Thursday, federal regulators moved farther south their preferred option for closing an offshore bottom-fishing area. If adopted, the closed area would end at roughly the Georgia-South Carolina border. The former preferred option ran the closure all the way to North Carolina. It would have closed off any bottom fishing in the prime grounds off South Carolina.
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A garbage patch to call the Atlantic's own
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You’ve probably heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – that vast concentration of plastic litter trapped by ocean currents in the Pacific Ocean. Now, researchers at the Woods Hole-based Sea Education Association have found a garbage patch of our own in the Atlantic.
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Fisheries Survival Fund letter on Loggerhead Turtles
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