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Posted on September 28, 2011 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Mr Keith Peck – a stock trader and former assistant director at the Monetary Authority of Singapore – was set adrift in the South China Sea along with eight other men, when a 50m-high tanker bulldozed over their fishing boat. Mr Peck was swept away by a wave after he volunteered to swim to a passing trawler for help. Mr Keith Peck, 31, is being lauded as a hero for trying to save the group by swimming for help. However, this comes as a cold comfort to his wife, who has spent an agonising past

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New Book Concludes That Fish Feel Pain Too

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on New Book Concludes That Fish Feel Pain Too

Flickr Commons I caught a fish once; the hook went right through its eye. It was too small to keep and I was disgusted as I pulled the hook out, the eye came with it. I never fished again. Fishing friends told me not to feel bad, as fish don’t feel pain; Jennifer Viegas at Discovery News says otherwise. She talks to Victoria Braithwaite, Professor of Fisheries and Biology, School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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International Tuna Meeting Fails to Reduce Bluefin Quotas – Short-Term Profits Trump Sustainability

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on International Tuna Meeting Fails to Reduce Bluefin Quotas – Short-Term Profits Trump Sustainability

Japan is overwhelmingly the world’s largest market for bluefin tuna, photo: Stewart Butterfield / Creative Commons Nearly two years ago to the day I wrote the headline New Bluefin Tuna Quota Levels Are A “Mockery of Science” and today the exact same thing still holds true: The International Commission for the Conservation… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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India Climate Tribunal Gives Voice to People Affected by Climate Change, Demands Action from Governments

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on India Climate Tribunal Gives Voice to People Affected by Climate Change, Demands Action from Governments

Prabhati Devi gathers fodder for her buffalo in Rajasthan. Image: Ami Vitale/Oxfam Ask Ajantha about the effects of climate change on her village in southern India and she can give you numbers—estimates of how far the shoreline has moved inland and how many fish species are disappearing from local waters—but she can also tell you how her lifestyle and family life, and longstanding traditions throughout the region, are all changing…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Arctic Refuge is Ready for a Real Commitment

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on The Arctic Refuge is Ready for a Real Commitment

Photo credit: Sierra Club In every relationship, there comes a time when you need to take the next big step. This December marks 50 years since President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated a beautiful and vast stretch of land in Alaska as the ” Arctic National Wildlife Refuge .” Since then we’ve fallen madly in love with the Refuge and its animals. Now it’s time for a commitment…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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EU Abandons Plans to Cut Critically Endangered Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quotas

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on EU Abandons Plans to Cut Critically Endangered Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Quotas

Japan is the destination for the majority of the world’s bluefin tuna catch, photo: David Ooms / Creative Commons . Kiss them goodbye… As reported by the Associated Press pressure from France, Spain, and other Mediterranean nations has forced the EU to abandon previously touted plans to significantly cut quotas on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna next y… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Fish Free Fridays Add New Option to Greening Meal Plans

Posted on November 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Fish Free Fridays Add New Option to Greening Meal Plans

Images via Plastiki We’ve heard of Meatless Monday . We’ve heard of Weekday Vegetarian . But there’s a new one to add on to the calendar — Fish Free Friday . A project of the Plastiki gang, the new non-menu item brings awareness to our bad habit of overfishing as well as which species are under p… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Ultimate Locavorism: Ten US States Constitutionally Protect The Right To Hunt & Fish

Posted on September 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Deerlayer cover. Image credit: Wikipedia As one commenter on this trend states, seeking constitutional protection of the right to fish and hunt seems to be something of a ‘tempest in a tea pot.’ PETA celebrities have Deerlayer’s leather stockings in a bundle. How else could you explain 10 US states amending their constitutions to protect hunting and fishing? There is no National Fishing Rod Association, after all. Maybe it’s more than naked PET… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A Picture is Worth…South African Campaign For Sustainable Fisheries

Posted on September 10, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Terrific ad campaign by the World Wildlife Fund in South Africa and SASSI , the South African Sustainable Seafood Foundation to encourage people to eat fish caught in an environmentally friendly manner that avoids bycatch. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Can Social Media Save Vaquita, the World’s Rarest Porpoise? (Video)

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Screen capture: About the Vaquita , vaquita.tv The Vaquita porpoise may be living its last days in Mexico’s Gulf of California. The demise of the species is imminent, says Chris Johnson, who’s spent the last three years on a documentary, “Vaquita – Last Chance for the Desert Porpoise.” Johnson hopes the film, available online, will help change the practice of gill netting, which has been wiping out the Vaquita year-by-year, one-by-one. Johnson believes that every Tweet, Facebook share, Digg or green thumb on StumbleUpon about his project could make th… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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