USA Today March 13, 2013 In the 1990s, some U.S. fish stocks faced collapse. Federal requirements to prevent overfishing have brought a reversal and health to 27 of 44 once-depleted stocks. Is it time to relax the rules? Nearly two-thirds of once depleted U.S. fish stocks, including monkfish and sea scallops, are now thriving or bouncing back, a report today says. Read Read More…

The Oregonian March 11, 2013 A draft of an ecological plan that applies to West Coast fisheries has emphasized the need for management of so-called forage fish to improve salmon runs. The Pacific Fishery Management Council will consider adopting the draft fishery ecosystem plan on April 9 in Portland. Read Read More…

U-T San Diego March 12, 2013 Light-producing properties of corals send up warning flares that the organisms are in trouble, according to a study released Tuesday by researchers with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and U.C. Berkeley. The study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, explains how changes in coral fluorescence can alert marine researchers and ocean managers that a Read More…

The Guardian March 8, 2013 To quote WH Auden, "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water". He was also exactly right. Btween 50% and 85% of the world's oxygen comes from the oceans, 50-80% of all life on Earth is found under the surface of the sea and over one billion people, often in the most deprived areas, depend on fish for their protein. Yet, very little is being done to Read More…

American Thinker March 16, 2013 On our  journey along cost of the South China Sea, it's now the first day of Tet. About a week earlier, families made their offerings to the Kitchen God asking for a good report to the Heavenly Emperor. The message is to be delivered by a giant carp which transforms itself into a dragon on the way to heaven, Almost 80% of Vietnamese practice ancestor worship Read More…