Shrimp's Success Hurts Asian Environment, Group Says
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Shrimp farming in Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and other poor Asian nations has devastated native mangrove forests and wild fish stocks, according to an environmental nonprofit.
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Asia's rapid economic expansion has turned its skies into some of world's most polluted and the region must do more to fight a scourge that is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually, delegates told a clean air conference Wednesday.
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Europeâs dinner tables are increasingly supplied by global fishing fleets, which are depleting the worldâs oceans to feed ravenous consumers.
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Asia needs a new network akin to Interpol to fight a "wildlife mafia" and the illegal multi-billion dollar trade in animals and plants, environmentalists said on Tuesday.
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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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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned the import of five species of fish and shrimp from China because they have been found to contain unsafe additives and drugs, some of which can cause cancer, the agency said today.
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More severe tropical cyclones, heatwaves and a dramatic shift in rainfall patterns could batter Asia by the end of the century as its factories boom, a leading climate expert told Asian chief executives on Friday.
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The tsunami which killed hundreds of people in southern Thailand may also have killed the coral reefs which attract large numbers of foreign tourists, a Thai marine scientist was quoted on Tuesday as saying.
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NEW ORLEANS   The National Marine Fisheries Service released on Thursday a much-anticipated draft of a study on how to save the struggling shrimp industry in the Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic.
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The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of manâs impact on the natural world.
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Farmed seafood joined tires, toothpaste and toy trains on the list of tainted and defective products from China that could be hazardous to a person's health.
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Hong Kong's government has urged  residents not to eat seafood from tsunami-affected areas as  they may be tainted, but experts brushed off such fears on  Wednesday, saying the effects of the catastrophe on fish were  minimal.
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Asia will be able to weather the rising prices of oil but economic growth will slow down, with Thailand and the Philippines being the worst affected in a group of 10 countries, a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said .
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The United States yesterday announced anti-dumping duties on imports of Chinese shrimp as high as 113 per cent, a move that will hurt both US consumers and Chinese shrimp farmers, China Daily reported Thursday.
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Federal trade officials Monday announced final tariffs on shrimp from Brazil, Ecuador, India and Thailand, supporting US shrimpers&#39; claims that exporters in those countries have dumped their
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NASA links growth with climate A warmer climate could disrupt the marine food chain, new research from NASA suggests, potentially damaging fisheries and other marine ecosystems.â¦
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The tsunami that took a heavy toll in human life also battered Indian Ocean coral reefs that already were in distress from pollution and global warming, possibly causing damage that will require decades to recover, experts say.