Beach Busters: Grisly bird discovery blights coastline
New Zealand Herald | 18 Mar 2012
An estimated one million sea birds and 100,000 marine mammals are killed each year because they eat or get trapped in rubbish.
 Pacific Ocean | Marine Debris | Seabirds

UK steps in to help West Africa in fight to overturn EU fishing abuses
Guardian Unlimited | 18 Mar 2012
Small-scale fishermen in West Africa have appealed to the UK fisheries minister Richard Benyon to protect their future by voting on Monday to restrict over-fishing in the coastal waters of developing countries. Leaked EU documents seen by the Guardian suggest that Britain has successfully blocked Spanish proposals which, if passed, would allow EU fishermen to continue to overfish African and other waters.
 Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Governance