Sport fish
Swordfish Restaurant Boycott
Swordfish isn’t on the menu where it usually is. Hammersley’s Bistro in Boston is one of more than 25 restaurants along the East Coast and Texas that are taking swordfish off their menus for the next year. Chef m says it’s an effort to restore the fish whose stocks in the North Atlantic have dropped […]
Blue Oceans
Overfishing now threatens one of the most popular items on U-S menus; swordfish. That’s according to Carl Safina, a research ecologist and founder of the Living Oceans Program for Marine Conservation at the National Audubon Society. He’s just written a book about fish and fishing called “Song For the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s […]
Coho Woes
The federal government is about to add another stock of Pacific salmon to the Endangered Species List. The National Marine Fisheries Service has determined that the coastal Coho is threatened from northern California through southern Oregon. The listing means land use restrictions will be imposed on millions of acres from the coast to interior mountain […]
Sport Fishing in Flordia
It’s been eighteen months since Florida voters approved a ban on gill net fishing in state waters, to reduce the catch. But, the transition hasn’t been easy. The 1995 referendum was bitter, pitting a disorganized commercial fishing industry against a powerful sports fishing lobby. Still, the ban appears to be working as populations of Spanish […]
Mexico Backs Off on Tuna
Living on Earth’s Peter Thomson reports on the latest maneuvering in the US-Mexico row over an import ban designed to protect dolphins killed by Mexican tuna fishing boats. Some environmentalists say the Bush administration has agreed to lobby for changes in the US Marine Mammal Protection Act in exchange for Mexico dropping its unfair-trade grievance […]