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Green activists using helicopters, divers and rotten butter yesterday confronted Libyan and Italian fishermen to release hundreds of threatened bluefin tuna which they strongly suspect were illegally caught off the Libyan coast. In the first action of its kind in north African waters, the international crew of the California-based Sea Shepherd Conservation [...] Northern bluefin tuna © Gilbert Van Ryckevorsel / WWF-Canada Currently, the Atlantic bluefin tuna is on the brink of extinction because of overfishing and illegal fishing to feed a rapidly expanding market in recent years for sushi and sashimi, mainly in Japan, but also increasingly in the United States and Europe. Overall, Atlantic bluefin [...] Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s) such as these always show a quick bounce-back in biodiversity and fish populations, but apparently so much so to the point that that the protected areas become an irresistible temptation to poachers. [...] The recent Chilean earthquake and resultant tsunamis throughout the Pacific made me wonder… how does a tsunami affect a coral reef? Well, it depends on where the reef is. Duh. It’s the after-effects that are more interesting though. [...] |
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