Feds offer ways to save the shrimps
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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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By Allen Thomas, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Mar. 8--Skamania and Toutle fish hatcheries face closure this year unless they are rescued by a $600,000 appropriation in the state's supplemental budget.
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WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration wants to allow ocean farming for shellfish, salmon, and saltwater species in federal waters for the first time, hoping to grab a greater share of a $70 billion aquaculture market.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Marine biologists and U.S. military divers are trying to turn an environmental mess off Fort Lauderdale's coast into an earth-friendly source of fuel.  Their target: an ill-conceived reef of rubber tires sunk into the ocean in the 1970s.
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Federal officials are considering releasing a large amount of water from the Glen Canyon Dam into the Grand Canyon early next year in an effort to rebuild beaches and aid endangered fish.
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The federal government has finished a plan to try to save an endangered plant that is found only in Tennessee.
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By AMY WOLD  Recreational fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico could keep two red snappers per day from federal waters - down from the current four- fish bag limit - under a  proposed rule announced Thursday.
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Scientists and politicians are moving to protect the enormous biodiversity in the Coral Triangle â a critical marine nursery for tuna and other species.
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State and federal agencies are taking a number of steps to create better habitat for declining populations of Bonneville cutthroat trout in an effort to keep the fish off the federal endangered species list.
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The United States set final  anti-dumping duties of up to 112.81 percent on shrimp imported  from China and up to 25.76 percent on shrimp from Vietnam to  offset unfair pricing, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday.
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By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 8--Even a nonprofit fish conservation organization apparently is not immune to the growing problem of metal thievery.
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The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica has become scarce and what can still be caught is often poisoned, a result of manâs impact on the natural world.
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By Steve Connor  Marine biologists have called on the fishing nations of the world to end government subsidies of fishing fleets that are plundering the deep seas and permanently stripping the ocean floor of its unique lifeforms.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 7--JACKSON COUNTY -- Officers with the Department of Marine Resources arrested two people in a shooting incident that occurred on a shrimp boat in the Gulf on Wednesday morning.
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A leading environmental group called Friday for protection for the great white shark and humphead wrasse coral fish, whose numbers have plunged because of overfishing and China's growing appetite for exotic foods.
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'Fair deal' begins to tackle problem of crews being forced to dump dead fish, minister claims
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By Henry Eichel, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 17--Lancaster County Council members want to hire a consultant to help them protect a rare little shellfish that sits in the way of continued growth in Indian Land.