Illegal Fishing Empties Russian Sea MARINE RESOURCES
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By Sarah Wachter  Aplastic bottle bobbing on the surface of Amurskiy Bay, concealed under a plastic bag, is a tell-tale sign that poachers are working this salmon spawning route in the coastal waters of the Russian Far East.
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Fishermen closed off two French ports and environmentalists dumped dead fish in front of the European Union headquarters Monday on the eve of crucial talks on catch limits for threatened species in EU waters.
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The Russian government has issued a new threat to strip Yukos oil of its production licenses, the Moscow Times reported Monday. Natural Resources Minister Yury Trutnev said
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It is trying to protect its world-famous bounty of fish with marine protected areas.
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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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Russia plans to release six more Japanese fishermen, two weeks after their boats were seized in disputed waters, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
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By Jose Borjon, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Jun. 23--Mexican nationals caught illegally fishing in U.S. waters were rescued from the Gulf of Mexico Friday morning. The four men leapt or were thrown from their boat after crashing into a U.S. Coast Guard vessel.
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Russia will file a claim to the gigantic mineral wealth of the Arctic seabed with the United Nations by the end of the year, Russia's natural resources minister said on Tuesday.
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Eleven fishing boat crew who had been stranded since October in a remote part of Russia's Far East have been rescued after sheltering nearly three months at an abandoned military base, according to television and Russian news agency reports.
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Eleven fishermen are rescued three months after being shipwrecked in the Russian Far East.
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Peter Annin recalls staring in horror at what had been the coast of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, now a wasteland strewn with scrub brush and corroded hulls of abandoned fishing boats.
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Scientists blame excessive fishing in the Black Sea for destabilising its ecosystem, allowing an invasive jellyfish to thrive.
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Â· Cargo of abandoned vessel destined for restaurants  Â· Illegal trade drives species closer to extinction.
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Russia and St. Petersburg in particular are not to blame for the lion's share of pollution in the Baltic Sea, an expedition into the Gulf of Finland by a ship carrying representatives of the local office of the ...
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VLADIVOSTOK. Feb 19 (Interfax) - Coast guards in Primorye detained two vessels for violating fishing rules and trespassing the state border on Sunday in the course of the Typhoon 2007 operation.
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Russia has released six more Japanese fishermen who had been detained earlier this month after their boats were seized in disputed waters, Japan's Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
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Citing damage to salmon rivers, Russia on Monday withdrew environmental approval for the Royal Dutch Shell-operated Sakhalin-2 liquefied natural gas project.