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Hope for Salmon as Dams Come Down

Jennifer Kaye, YES! Magazine. January 4, 2012.

The destruction of two Washington State dams will restore depleted fisheries, create jobs, and maybe even change how we manage our rivers.

4 Reasons to Give Thanks to Our Oceans (Without Them We're Screwed)

Casson Trenor, AlterNet. November 23, 2011.

Oceans are essential to our lives, but the evidence strongly suggests we take them for granted way too much.

Why the Most Important Fish We Need to Save Is One You've Never Heard Of

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. November 6, 2011.

You don't hear about menhaden because they don't show up in fish markets or on dinner menus, but they're in everything.

4 Dirty Secrets Hiding In Your Tuna Can

Casson Trenor, AlterNet. August 15, 2011.

Tuna may be one of the most popular seafood products in the U.S. but there are four important things you should know before popping open that can.

More Than Half of Tuna Species Face Extinction, But Overfishing Is Too Profitable to Stop

Michael Graham Richard, TreeHugger. July 15, 2011.

The regulations are hard to enforce because of the logistical difficulties of monitoring fishing, and because of a lack of political will.

4 Lame Excuses for Shark Finning and Why it Must End

Casson Trenor, AlterNet. June 2, 2011.

The act of shark finning flies directly in the face of sustainable living. We need to outgrow this practice and embrace a positive relationship with sharks.

The Sardine's Big Comeback: Why This Lowly Little Fish Should Be at the Top of Your Shopping List

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. May 12, 2011.

Wild seafood is wrought with environmental, ethical, economic, and health implications. But the sardine poses a solution to each of these problems.

4 Surprising Places You Can Buy Sustainable Fish

Casson Trenor, AlterNet. April 26, 2011.

Buying sustainable seafood doesn't have to be expensive -- the only thing that is truly pricey is choosing to sacrifice the health of oceans and fisheries.

Why I Went to Safeway for My Birthday: Supermarket Makes Huge Announcement

Casson Trenor, AlterNet. April 15, 2011.

The company did something that deserved celebration far more than me surviving another trip around the sun.

4 Fish We Should Never Eat

Casson Trenor, AlterNet. March 30, 2011.

Money can buy just about anything these days, especially when it comes to fish -- and that is devastating for our oceans.

4 Surprising Places You Should Never Buy Seafood From

Casson Trenor, AlterNet. January 25, 2011.

Here is a quick-and-dirty list of four seafood retailers that have adopted reprehensible practices in their quest for fish-driven profit.

Sustainable Fish Customers 'Duped' by Marine Stewardship Council

Lewis Smith, The Guardian. January 12, 2011.

Certification granted to controversial fisheries has prompted severe criticism of the sustainable fisheries organization.

Big Gains Made in Shark Conservation, But Extinction Still Possible

Environment News ServiceJanuary 7, 2011.

New legislation closes a loophole that had allowed for shark-finning -- a practices that was responsible for huge population declines.

Bluefin Tuna's High Price Tag (up to $100,000) Means They've Been Fished to the Brink -- Can We Save Them?

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. November 22, 2010.

This week an international commission is meeting to determine the fate of the Atlantic bluefin.

Hatch-22: The Problem with the Pacific Salmon Resurgence

Bruce Barcott, Yale Environment 360. November 2, 2010.

Growing numbers of hatchery-produced salmon are flooding the Pacific and making it hard for threatened wild salmon species to find enough food to survive.

Marine Stewardship Council's Marine Stewardship Questionable, Scientists Say

Matthew McDermott, TreeHugger. September 9, 2010.

Institutions have called out the Marine Stewardship Council for not doing a good job at marine stewardship. As is to be expected, MSC strongly disagrees.

Fisheries Are a Disaster -- Does Your Supermarket Carry Sustainable Seafood?

Rachel Cernansky, Planet Green. May 27, 2010.

Check out this scorecard from Greenpeace that gives major chain supermarkets a ranking for how well they score in terms of supplying sustainably-sourced seafood.

The Wonders of Cap and Trade -- For Fishermen

Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic. May 7, 2010.

A new system, called "catch shares," or sectors, has worked in fisheries around the world since the concept was born in New Zealand, Australia, and Iceland in the 1970s.

Can Consumer Pressure Help Save Our Fisheries?

Jeff Deasy, AlterNet. April 1, 2010.

Right now 70 percent of the world's fisheries are being harvested at capacity or are in decline, but there are some reasons to be hopeful.

Privatize the Seas? If Only Solving Overfishing Were so Easy

Privatize the Seas? If Only Solving Overfishing Were so Easy

Rebecca Bratspies, Center for Progressive Reform. July 28, 2009.

Merely having a market with clear private ownership rights does not protect against short-sightedness and greed.

Huron, California May not Exist in a Year

Viji Sundaram, New America Media. July 9, 2009.

The unemployment rate in Huron in recent months is “off the charts.”

Dead Zone Diet: Why Fertilizers Are Taking Fish off the Menu

Kerry Trueman, Huffington Post. August 18, 2008.

Fertilizer runoff from industrial agriculture and fossil-fuel use are causing catastrophic "dead zones" in our oceans.

Where Have All the Fish Gone?

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, Christian Science Monitor. June 11, 2008.

By some accounts, if current fishing trends continue, all the world's fisheries will have collapsed by mid-century.

Finally Some Standards for Fish Farming -- But Are They Good?

Marion Nestle, December 31, 1969.


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