Denmark to shut down disputed shrimp fishery off Canada's East Coast
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ST. JOHN'S, Nfld. (CP) - Canadian ports will remain open to Danish vessels after Denmark backed down Friday in a dispute with Canada over shrimp quotas off the East Coast.
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Denmark aims to claim the North Pole and hunt for oil in high Arctic regions that may become more accessible because of global warming, the Science Ministry said Monday.
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European Union ministers have decided to disregard proposals to declare huge swathes of ocean off-limits for trawlers if viable alternatives could be worked out to safeguard such threatened fish as the once-common cod.
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Science & environment: European fisheries ministers seek to balance dwindling fish stocks with demands of fishing industry
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The European Commission proposes closure of dangerously depleted cod grounds in the North Sea, Irish Sea and off the west of Scotland.
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Science & environment: Conservationists attack EU fishing quota deal that will allow fishing fleets to land an extra 11% of cod in North Sea.
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The U.S. Coast Guard, responding to safety and environmental concerns, said Monday it was withdrawing plans to periodically close 6,475 square kilometres of the Great Lakes for live machine-gun exercises.  The plan had been criticized by several U.S.
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Around a fifth of the North Sea would be closed to fishing next year under European Commission plans for an unprecedented ban to help rescue cod stocks from collapse.
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OSLO : Norway&#39;s oil production faces a total shutdown in mid-November after oil sector shipowners threatened to stage a lock-out to end a strike that has weighed on the industry since July.
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The European Unionâs head office today proposed unprecedented bans on fishing in popular northern waters to safeguard threatened species such as the common cod, a traditional dinner favourite from Sweden to Portugal.
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The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution says 30% of UK waters should be closed to commercial fishing.
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A consortium led by the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. should halt operations and delay further development of oil and gas fields near gray whale feeding grounds off Russia's far-eastern Sakhalin island, an independent study recommended Wednesday.
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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 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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State regulators have banned commercial fishing in the Bering Sea near the wreckage of a grounded freighter where fuel oil has been seeping since early this month.
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Effort to fertilize oceans to limit warming, and make money, is canceled.
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The Norwegian Shipowners Association threatened on Monday to lock out more oil and gas rig workers, a move analysts said could result in a near shutdown of the third-largest petroleum exporter&#39;s production and drive world oil prices even higher.