Report pushes for zero cod catch
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Fisheries scientists urge zero catches for cod in 2005 in the North Sea, the Irish Sea and west of Scotland.
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To marine biologists, âplasticsâ is a dirty word. Fish and birds can eat or become tangled in fishing gear or other plastic flotsam.
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The EU decided Wednesday to cut  national fish catches for 2005, rejecting proposals to shut  fishing grounds in favor of more limits on the time trawlers  can hunt for depleted species like cod, officials said.
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Â· Watchdog asks officials to rethink use of statistics Â· Document obscures policy failures, say campaigners
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08 December, 2004 - FISHERMENâS leaders and UK Government ministers alike today vowed to fight European Commission catching plans, which they said were out of date and too extreme.
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According to a report just released from Environmental Protection Agency, one of every three lakes in the United States and nearly one-quarter of the nation&#39;s rivers contain enough pollution that people should limit or avoid eating fish caught there.
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Cod, once a staple of the British diet, could be fished close to extinction, environmentalists warned yesterday. They said a deal keeping North Sea fishing grounds open to trawlers was &quot;scandalous&quot;.
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Americans fishing for sport along coastlines or at sea are doing far more damage to US marine fish stocks than anyone thought, accounting for nearly a quarter of the catch from overfished species, researchers report in the latest issue of the journal
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Campaigners hoping to create a "no take zone" for fishermen put their proposals to MSPs on the Isle of Arran.
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A Sri Lankan fleet lands a small catch to try to disprove fears fish have been contaminated by corpses.
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By Wesley Loy, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 12--Seafood companies will be making fewer fish sticks and less imitation crab from Alaska catches next season due to a cut in the Bering Sea walleye pollock catch limit.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 9--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding that the City of Tacoma to pay a $358,000 fine and restore wildlife habit as a penalty for missing deadlines on the Thea Foss Waterway Superfund cleanup.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Drift gill net fishing won't be allowed in a conservation area off the Pacific Coast this summer, the National Marine Fisheries Service has announced.
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Vast fishing no-go zones are needed to save the world&#39;s marine ecosystems from irreparable harm, say British scientists. After climate change, scientists consider the wrecking
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is to propose a complete ban on sledging at a meeting with the game's rule-makers.
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Cod stocks in Europe's northern waters are on the verge of extinction, scientists said on Monday, calling for a blanket ban on fishing in 2005.
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A coalition of environmental and conservation groups calls for a ban on the damaging fishing practice known as bottom-trawling.