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Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris: Anticipating and Mitigating Its Impacts on the Northwestern Hawaiian
Please join MPA News for a live global webinar on Monday, December 12, 2011, to explore how NOAA, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Digital Ocean Collaborative on Marine Debris are planning for the potential arrival of Japanese tsunami marine debris in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands in early 2012.
Continue Reading "Japanese Tsunami Marine Debris: Anticipating and Mitigating Its Impacts on the Northwestern Hawaiian"Probe exposes fishing underbelly
A ministerial inquiry sparked by a Sunday Star-Times investigation reveals serious fears about fishing practices in NZ waters. Michael Field reports.
Decrepit foreign fishing vessels crewed with sweatshop Asian labour are destroying New Zealand’s international reputation for safe and sustainable food and are ruining our ability to catch our own fish.
These claims come in submissions to a joint ministerial inquiry into the use of foreign charter vessels (FCVs) that take 62% of the deep ocean catch and almost all of the Maori fish quota.
Their crews pay no tax, but are covered by the Accident Compensation Corporation. The vessels ignore safe-ship standards as well as employment, health and safety laws. Crew on FCVs are paid a quarter of the rates paid on New Zealand-flagged boats.
International MPA News
Keep yourself updated with International Marine Protected Areas progress with this informative Sep/Oct edition. This edition also mentions the 5 new marine reserves announced for the West Coast of NZ by the West Coast Marine Protection Forum. Read about the announcment
Continue Reading "International MPA News"New Zealand’s own Orca Lady in International Spotlight
BBC twos new documentary named “The Woman Who Swims With Killer Whales” features the life work and passion of Dr. Ingrid Visser. Known by many throughout New Zealand as the orca lady, Dr. Visser had taken upon herself to research and document behaviours of Orca over the last 18 years with many discoveries on the way.
Marine Protected Area News July-August 2011
Check out the latest International Marine Protected Area News
MPA NEWS, Vol. 13, No. 1 (July-August 2011)
http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/MPA121.pdf
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Marine Mammal Protected Areas: What Makes Them Special, and How Their
Management Can Be Advanced
UN Working Group Recommends Path toward Multilateral Agreement on High Seas
Conservation, Including MPAs
Letter to the Editor: Well-Managed Trawl Fishery Would Be Disproportionately
Impacted by SW Australian MPAs
Notes & News: Guide on EBM - World Heritage - China - Canada - Mediterranean
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