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The European Union provides €8 million to the Pacific Region to improve regional waste management
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme | 23 May 2013
The PACWASTE programme will help improve the management of hazardous wastes, focussing on priority electronic and medical wastes as well as asbestos waste. Better management of waste on atolls will also be a project priority.

Pacific Ocean | Small Island Developing States

Meet the Winners of the Fifth Annual Ocean in Focus Photo Contest
marinephotobank.com | 23 May 2013
Congratulations to Andy Murch for his grand prize winning photo essay titled "Gillnets: An Indiscriminate Fishery," chosen from a group of six finalists. For his essay, Murch focused on the wasteful practice of gillnet fishing, specifically in the halibut fishery of Baja California.

Pacific Ocean | Conservation | Fisheries

Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model
EurekAlert | 22 May 2013
(University of Hawaii ? SOEST) Researchers from the University of Hawaii, Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands, including two species currently under consideration as threatened or endangered.

Pacific Ocean | Coral | Research

Northland fishermen help to rescue orca
New Zealand Herald | 22 May 2013
Commercial fishermen have been praised for looking after an orca stranded in the Kaipara Harbour until rescuers arrived.

Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals

Indonesia's natural riches highlight international biodiversity day - in pictures
Guardian Unlimited | 22 May 2013
Indonesia's marine and forest life is at risk from industrial overfishing and relentless deforestation, Greenpeace International warns on the UN's International Day for Biological Diversity

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries

'Green' longliner for Blue North
World Fishing | 22 May 2013
Seattle-based Blue North has contracted Dakota Creek Industries to build a new 'green' longliner, with delivery due in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries

Surprise discovery of huge bird colony on small island
New Zealand Herald | 22 May 2013
A survey of a small inshore island at Cape Foulwind, near Westport, has led to the surprise discovery of what appears to be the largest West Coast seabird colony between Cook Strait and Fiordland.

Pacific Ocean | Research | Seabirds

New species of sea urchins discovered in NZ waters
New Zealand Herald | 21 May 2013
Scientists dusting off half-century old archives of sea urchins have discovered seven new species they didn't know existed in New Zealand waters. The dramatic finds include a clarification over the mystery of one giant deepwater species.

Pacific Ocean | Biodiversity | Deep Sea

Scientists Explore Roots of Future Tropical Rainfall
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 21 May 2013
A new study, published online May 19 in the journal Nature Geoscience, looks to the past to learn about the future of tropical climate change, and our ability to simulate it with numerical models.

Indian Ocean | Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Blue whale protection may need to increase
New Zealand Herald | 20 May 2013
The protection afforded to blue whales in New Zealand waters may need to be increased, now a study has found they may be more regular visitors to the South Taranaki Bight than previously thought.

Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals

Fishermen angry at call to extend set-net ban
New Zealand Herald | 20 May 2013
Otago commercial fishermen have reacted with anger to a proposal to extend a ban on set-net fishing around the Otago Peninsula to help preserve yellow-eyed penguin colonies.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Seabirds

Scientists explore roots of future tropical rainfall
EurekAlert | 20 May 2013
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world? Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the models don't always agree on where rainfall patterns will shift in particular regions within the tropics.

Indian Ocean | Pacific Ocean | Climate Change | Research

Precious penguins needing better protection
New Zealand Herald | 19 May 2013
Extending a ban on set net fishing around the Otago Peninsula will stem the deaths of one of the rarest penguin species in the world, the native yellow-eyed penguin, Forest and Bird says.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Seabirds

Chile: hundreds of dead animals washed up on shore - video
Guardian Unlimited | 17 May 2013
Residents in Chile discover around 600 dead animals washed up on the shore in Punta Choros, on the country's northern coast

Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals | Seabirds

Seabird bones reveal changes in open-ocean food chain
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(Michigan State University) Remains of endangered Hawaiian petrels -- both ancient and modern -- show how drastically today's open seas fish menu has changed.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Research | Seabirds

Using earthquake sensors to track endangered whales
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(University of Washington) Oceanographers analyzed more than 300,000 fin-whale calls recorded by seafloor seismometers and recreated more than 150 fin-whale paths off the Pacific Northwest coast.

Pacific Ocean | Marine Mammals | Research

Scientists find impact of open-ocean industrial fishing within centuries of bird bones
EurekAlert | 14 May 2013
(Smithsonian) The impact of industrial fishing on coastal ecosystems has been studied for many years. But how it affects food webs in the open ocean has not been very clear. So a team of Smithsonian and Michigan State University scientists and their colleagues looked to the ancient bones of seabirds for answers, revealing some of the dramatic changes that have happened within open-ocean food webs since the onset of industrial fishing.

Pacific Ocean | Fisheries | Research | Seabirds

Blue Carbon reforestation in Costa Rica
Blue Carbon Portal | 14 May 2013
Costa Rica aims to be a carbon neutral country by 2021. Is Blue Carbon a part of the answer?

Pacific Ocean | Blue Carbon

Divers try to free Rena debris
New Zealand Herald | 14 May 2013
Six containers of pollutants remain to be emptied by divers working on the fast-disappearing hulk of the Rena.

Pacific Ocean | Accidents and Spills | Marine Debris

GEF Reports on Federated States of Micronesia IWRM Demonstration Project
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) | 14 May 2013
The project titled 'Ridge to Reef - Community to Catchment', which is funded by the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) 'Implementing Sustainable Water Resources and Wastewater Management in Pacific Island Countries' project (GEF Pacific IWRM Project), has reported improved national coordination in the water and sanitation sectors and enhanced community involvement in water resource management in the Pohnpei and Chuuk states, part of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM).

Pacific Ocean | Small Island Developing States

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