Groups Target Foreign Ships: Invasive Species Are the Concern
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By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press  Jun. 22--The legal battle over biologically tainted ballast water from ocean-going ships escalated Thursday as eight environmental groups acted against foreign shippers under the national Clean Water Act.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 21--It's easy to sympathize with fishermen on Hatteras Island and elsewhere along the North Carolina coast who lament a pending rule that would limit catches of snowy grouper, a lucrative fish, and a few other species.
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By Mike Leidemann  HONOLULU -- Hawaii is scheduled to get its first regular interisland passenger ferry service in more than 25 years this summer, but the project is raising concerns among environmentalists about whale collisions, invasive species and congestion.
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Industrial boats from Europe and elsewhere have caused major fish populations to collapse in northwest Africaâs ocean floor, crippling coastal economies, and creating a surge of illegal migrants hoping to reach Europe.
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By PETER B. LORD  An expert on invasive species in marine waters will give the first lecture this year in the 2006-2007 Mark D. Gould Memorial Lecture Series sponsored by the Rhode Island Natural History Survey.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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A rare reef fish called the humphead wrasse should be guarded from the trade that is threatening its future, conservation agencies have claimed.
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Invasive species appear to be killing off crucial segments of the Great Lakes food web, from large predator fish to tiny freshwater shrimp, an environmental group said Thursday.
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To: AND LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS  Contact: U.S. Department of Justice, +1-202-514-2007, TDD: +1- 202-514-1888   WASHINGTON, June 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Overseas Shipholding Group Inc.
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Ships steaming into Boston harbor will soon shift course to avoid whales in the first change of U.S. shipping lanes to protect an endangered species.
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By Heath, David  Seagrasses, an ecologically important group of flowering plants that have adapted to life submerged in seawater, are in dire need of a targeted global conservation effort to protect them and lhc services they provide, according to an international team of scientists.
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In the third recent international government action calling for limits on the use of high intensity military sonar, the 16 member states of the Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, ...
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Science & environment: Conservationists attack EU fishing quota deal that will allow fishing fleets to land an extra 11% of cod in North Sea.
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Scientists gathering in Bern are warning of a foreign invasion of Switzerland. Alien animals and plants pose a serious threat to biodiversity, the national economy and people's health - according to the ...
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Overfishing by subsidized European fleets off the coast of West Africa is hurting local fisheries and forcing people to slaughter wildlife to get enough to eat, researchers said on Thursday.
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The Navy has a monkey on its back. Since at least 1982, U.S. Navy ships plying the Persian Gulf have been taunted by mysterious radio transmissions that are alternately obscene, nonsensical, racist, infantile, misogynistic and menacing. Sometimes they threatened U.S. ships; at other times they...