Protection plea for reef fish
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A rare reef fish called the humphead wrasse should be guarded from overfishing, experts have claimed. The WWF and the IUCN-World Conservation Union are set to ask an international trade watchdog to include the fish on its list of protected species.
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Hundreds of fish are believed to have been killed in a pollution incident in County Antrim.
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U.S. scientists say healthy coral reefs provide adjacent coastlines with more protection from tsunamis than do unhealthy or dead reefs.
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Science & environment: Fishing, climate change and pollution have left an indelible mark on virtually all of the world's oceans
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Environmental groups call on Australia to classify the Coral Sea as a marine park to ward of illegal shark fishermen.
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Environmental groups call on Australia to classify the Coral Sea as a marine park to ward off illegal shark fishermen.
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Cities are using bluegills to safeguard municipal water supplies. The fish react immediately to toxins in the water, so if the aquatic denizens start to flap their gills while swimming in tanks replenished constantly with reservoir water, a warning e-mail is triggered.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown must ensure the protection of the UK's marine wildlife, the RSPB urges.
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HOUSTON - Marine researchers are hoping to prevent tides of destructive algae from killing fish and fouling beaches through early detection of the microscopic organisms.
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By Mladen Rudman, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 13--What reef fish species in the Gulf of Mexico isn't overfished or suffering from overfishing?  Beats me. Maybe gray triggerfish. Maybe gray snapper.  The money fish, however, are in trouble.
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Animal conservation groups call for new legislation to protect seals in Scottish waters.
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By Wallace, G K  We must get to the root of eco-problems.  It took threatening to sue, but the Center for Biological Diversity finally prodded the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to add elkhorn and staghorn corals to the federal list of threatened species in June.
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As U.S., Australian navies prepare for exercises, scientists worry that sonar use can injure, even kill, whales.
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SYDNEY -- Australian bathers have become ensnared in an environmental tangle -- the nets that protect them from sharks pose a threat to a growing whale population. Save the whales, demand some wildlife campaigners. Save the humans, counters the government.
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Urgent action is needed to prevent further declines in albatross and petrel populations, wildlife groups recommend.
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By Kathy Marks  The Great Barrier Reef, already under threat from global warming, is also being affected by pollutants and pesticides from the land carried into the sea by flooded rivers, satellite images show.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service announced today that it is recommending that the orcas that ply the Puget Sound should be listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.