April 24, 2012, 12:05 AM
As the tally of sea lion deaths at the Bonneville Dam in Washington state grows to four, happier news comes from Chicago, where the Shedd Aquarium has pledged to take the next sea lion caught eating salmon. "It's what we all would prefer see happen," said Craig Bartlett, a...
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April 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
A third salmon-eating California sea lion was captured and killed yesterday at the Bonneville Dam in Washington. Two sea lions were captured and chemically euthanized at the Columbia River dam by Washington state officials last week. And while Oregon, Washington and federal wildlife...
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February 28, 2012, 12:05 AM
A ruling by a federal court in California threatens to upset a controversial new fishing management plan embraced by environmental groups, including the Environmental Defense Fund and The Nature Conservancy. In 2011, the regional council overseeing marine fisheries on the Pacific...
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September 19, 2011, 12:05 AM
The swordfish industry has been vilified for years. They’ve been painted as a fleet of fishermen determined to troll the oceans with their “curtains of death,” or gill nets, in order to capture the magnificent fish at the deathly expense of migrating turtles, dolphins and...
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July 28, 2011, 12:05 AM
The current moratorium on suction dredging in California's rivers and streams was extended another five years Tuesday, when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that prohibits the controversial gold mining technique through June 2016. Environmentalists called the bill – AB 120 – a...
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June 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
When it comes to protecting California watershed habitats, environmentalists rarely embrace budget cuts. But that is exactly what they are doing in response to a recent proposal to slash funding for gold mining permits. Last month, legislators amended the proposed state budget to prohibit the...
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February 4, 2011, 12:05 AM
Oyster populations worldwide have plummeted and in some areas may be considered extinct, according to a study released this month by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and the Nature Conservancy. The study examined 144 bays across 44 different ecosystems and estimated that 85 percent of oyster reef...
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