Sturgeon Deaths Baffle Fisheries Officials
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 24--Minnesota fisheries officials have a sturgeon mystery on their hands.   Several lake sturgeon have turned up dead in the St.
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In what some scientists see as another alarming consequence of global warming, thousands of Pacific walruses above the Arctic Circle were killed in stampedes earlier this year after the disappearance of sea ice caused them to crowd onto the shoreline in extraordinary numbers.
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Sportfishing isn&#39;t just a tiny, harmless nibble on saltwater-fish populations, according to a new analysis of federal data. FISH COUNT.
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A new federal study has found that more threatened loggerhead sea turtles are injured or killed by the mid-Atlantic scallop fishery than earlier estimates indicated.
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By BOB RIEPENHOFF  The recent blast of bitter cold weather is a welcome development for those looking forward to the Lake Winnebago system sturgeon spearing season, which opens Saturday.
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Scientists and National Park Service workers were working Sunday to collect samples and clean up whale carcasses after 33 of the marine mammals beached themselves between Buxton and Corolla. Seventeen died, including five that were euthanized because they were suffering.
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By Jake Thompson, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Mar. 7--WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't release extra water into the Missouri River this spring to try to help the ancient pallid sturgeon because water levels in reservoirs upriver are too low.
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TV personality Steve Irwin's death by stingray may be spurring some fans to maim the fish, ten of which were found killed this week off Australia.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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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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About 1,500 dead birds that have washed up on the southern shore of the Great Salt Lake may have been killed by avian cholera, an expert said. Dead grebes, ducks and gulls were being sent to the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wis., for examination.
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SALMON, Idaho  - Officials scrambled on Wednesday to determine what has caused the deaths of thousands of mallard ducks in south-central Idaho near the Utah border.
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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 government has temporarily decided against reducing or banning imports of prized beluga caviar, despite having agreed to list the beluga sturgeon six months ago as a species whose survival is considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
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U.S. scientists are trying to determine what is causing a widespread fish kill in the Hood Canal, a fjord-like side basin of Washington State's Puget Sound.  The canal has historically been a deep and poorly flushed waterway with low dissolved oxygen concentrations.
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By LEE BERGQUIST  When a deadly fish virus popped up in a pair of lakes last month, it became the latest in a growing tide of Great Lakes invasive species to litter Wisconsin's inland waters.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.