The US Government is considering the ban of bottom trawls, bottom longlines and other destructive fishing gear to protect a still untouched ecosystem in the south-eastern United States Atlantic waters.
Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) announced last week that a four-week expedition to explore the deep ocean southwest of Tasmania has revealed new species of animals and more evidence of impacts of increasing carbon dioxide on deep-sea corals. The collaborative voyage of U.S. and Australian researchers was led by chief scientists Dr. Jess [...]
(This article was originally published on OceanLines on August 4, 2008.) Half the coral reefs in the United States are categorized in “poor” or “fair” condition according to a new analysis published by NOAA. The report, led by NOAA’s Center for Costal Monitoring and Assessment’s Biogeography Branch and supported by NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program, [...]
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