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Tuesday 20 March 2012

Director heads for deepest dive
BBC | 20 Mar 2012
Hollywood movie director and adventurer James Cameron gets ready to dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
 Pacific Ocean | Deep Sea | Diving
Fish Fight on, says Davies
fishupdate.com | 20 Mar 2012
Hopes of securing radical reforms to the EU's Common Fisheries Policy rose yesterday after an expected bid by French and Spanish ministers to block a ban on discards failed to materialise.
 Fisheries | Governance | Policy
NIFES to study salmon feeding during life-cycle
fishupdate.com | 20 Mar 2012
For the next five years, the National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES) will be collaborating with 21 partners from 12 European countries in ARRAINA, a European Union integrated project that aims to solve some of the greatest challenges that aquaculture will have to deal with in the future: how can to develop a fish feed with high nutritional value, based on raw materials derived from plants, that will guarantee farmed fish a good standard of health?
 Aquaculture | Fish Farming | Research
Avoiding the tragedy of overfishing
fishupdate.com | 20 Mar 2012
Management of fisheries at community level can help curb overfishing according to new research from an international scientific team, including the University of East Anglia.
 Atlantic Ocean | Fisheries | Marine Management
Movement on European discard issue
fishupdate.com | 20 Mar 2012
European Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki has recognised the complex issues that need to be addressed to remove the scandal of fish discards.
 Fisheries | Governance | Policy
Damage to world's oceans 'to reach $2 trillion a year'
Reuters | 20 Mar 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - The cost of damage to the world's oceans from climate change could reach $2 trillion a year by 2100 if measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions are not stepped up, a study by marine experts said on Wednesday.
 Climate Change | Economy
Rare whale swims up West Coast toward Russian home
New Zealand Herald | 20 Mar 2012
An endangered western Pacific gray whale tracked from Russia to Alaska and along the West Coast to Baja Mexico is on the move again, apparently preparing to cross the Pacific Ocean again.
 Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals
Humpback Whales Yield Some Sonic Secrets to Science (blog)
New York Times | 20 Mar 2012
A reflection on research showing how humpback whales are changing their tune.
 Marine Mammals | Research
Mexico Designates Four Ramsar Sites
biodiversity-l.iisd.org | 20 Mar 2012
The Secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention) has announced that the Government of Mexico has designated four additional Wetlands of International Importance, including three coastal lagoons with eight islands.
 Pacific Ocean | Biodiversity | Conservation
Campaigners for ban on EU fish discards declare breakthrough
Guardian Unlimited | 20 Mar 2012
Campaigners fighting to end the practice of throwing healthy fish back into the sea in European waters have declared victory in a key battle. A proposed ban on the practice, which sees millions of tonnes of edible fish discarded each year, is now still on track to become law later this year, despite a concerted attempt by several European Union member states to derail the proposal at an EU fisheries meeting in Brussels on Monday afternoon.
 Fisheries | Governance | Policy
Oil firm given go-ahead for Canary Islands drilling
Guardian Unlimited | 20 Mar 2012
One of Britain's best-loved holiday destinations is under threat from oil prospectors who have been given permission to drill for offshore fields, according to local authorities and hoteliers in the Canary Islands.
 Atlantic Ocean | Coastal Development and Tourism | Non-Living Resources | Offshore Resources
Amount of coldest Antarctic water near ocean floor decreasing for decades
NOAA | 20 Mar 2012
Scientists have found a large reduction in the amount of the coldest deep ocean water, called Antarctic Bottom Water, all around the Southern Ocean using data collected from 1980 to 2011. These findings, in a study now online, will likely stimulate new research on the causes of this change.
 Southern Ocean | Climate Change | Deep Sea
NOAA science supports New York's offshore energy planning
NOAA | 20 Mar 2012
Study provides mapping, analysis for renewable energy planning, offshore habitat protection
 Atlantic Ocean | Marine Spatial Planning | Offshore Resources | Renewable Energy
Oceanographic optimisation fuels efficiency
World Fishing | 20 Mar 2012
Applied oceanography specialists Tidetech will be demonstrating significant fuel saving results on a recent route optimisation trial at the Green Ship Technology (GST) conference in Copenhagen next week.
 Sea Transport
Court upholds limits on sea turtle deaths in Hawaii's longline fishery
World Fishing | 20 Mar 2012
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a federal district court settlement limiting the number of loggerhead and leatherback sea turtles that can be caught by Hawaii's longline swordfish fishery.
 Pacific Ocean | Conservation | Fisheries

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