Groups sue over Navy sonar use off Northwest coast
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SEATTLE (AP) — Conservationists and Native American tribes are suing over the Navy's expanded use of sonar in training exercises off the Washington, Oregon and California coasts, saying the noise can harass and kill whales and other marine life.
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Former TV skipper gets jail in fatal Alaska crash
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An Alaska fishing captain who led a crew on the program that spawned the
cable TV show “Deadliest Catch’’ will serve five years in prison for a
fatal crash.
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Extended fishing probe eyes 66 cases
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The special federal judicial master whose initial probe into law enforcement excesses led to a Cabinet-level apology and reparations last spring to eight badly harmed fishing industry businesses has taken on a "much wider pool of cases."
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Oceana Challenges Government Decision Allowing Eight U.S. Fisheries to Harm 14 Times More Threatened Sea Turtles
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Oceana, the largest international advocacy group working solely to protect the world’s oceans, filed a complaint
today about the United States government’s decision in October of 2010
to allow eight New England and Mid-Atlantic fisheries to harm 14 times
more (from 42 to 610) threatened loggerhead sea turtles. Specifically,
Oceana is disputing the U.S. government’s decision to allow these
fisheries to injure and kill more loggerhead sea turtles without
adequately assessing the aggregate impacts of the fisheries on this
species. The fisheries harm leatherback, Kemp’s ridley, and green sea
turtles as well, and those species also would benefit from proper
assessments of the fisheries’ impacts.
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New Jersey fisheries prosecutions show NOAA still has its teeth
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Federal criminal charges against Maine fishermen accused of illegally
harvesting scallops off New Jersey are the latest in a series of
prosecutions — a sharp departure from the government’s usual practice of
seeking civil penalties for captains who violate fishing rules.
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