A salmon fishing cooperative in the Pacific Northwest draws on indigenous practices and state of the art technology to be among the world's most sustainable and selective fisheries, writes Kevin Bailey. With its clean harvesting techniques, minmimal bycatch, 99% survival rates for released fish, renewable energy supply and efficient supply chain, it sets a standard for all to follow.
… Sustainable fishing: sockeye salmon and Native American … Kevin Bailey | 3rd January 2015 News Fishing Oceans Indigenous Peoples USA Sustainability lwi-07-cut.jpg A salmon fishing cooperative in the Pacific Northwest …
Melting ice and climate collapse threaten Finland's lakes and the ancient, sustainable fishing traditions associated with them.
… 2020 News Finland Climate Change Water Lakes Fishing Arctic Melting Ice International … Finland's lakes and the ancient, sustainable fishing traditions associated with them. Finland is the home of rich fishing cultures that are dependent on proper …
Large scale salmon deaths are imminent on the Klamath River and its tributaries in northern California due to low flows and high temperatures. Native American tribes are protesting in the state capital as federal agencies illegally prioritize water for large scale agribusiness over fish and indigenous people.
… Fish before agribusiness! California river … August 2014 News Indigenous Peoples USA Water Fish Farming trinityalgae2014-cut.jpg Large … water for large scale agribusiness over fish and indigenous people. Hundreds of Tribal …
Developers of hydroelectric plant have redrawn the boundaries of a crucial freshwater reserve for rare and economically important species
… Last refuge of rare fish threatened by Yangtze dam plans Jonathan … January 2011 News Dam Water Energy Hydropower Fish Biodiversity threegorgesdam.jpg China's Three Gorges Dam has driven fish species to extinction, caused frequent …
The construction of the Don Sahong Dam in Laos PDR must be halted until full information on the project's impacts - in particular the fate of millions of fish that migrate each year through the Hou Sahong channel now being dammed - has been published, writes the Save the Mekong Coalition in this open letter sent today to the project developers.
… Activism Water Laos Hydropower Renewables Fishing Food Indigenous Peoples … - in particular the fate of millions of fish that migrate each year through the Hou … to its location in an area critical to Mekong fish migration, the potential impacts of the …
For Indigenous communities living in Northern Kenya, the threat of Covid-19 is exacerbated by food insecurity and malnutrition.
… didn’t see the coronavirus as different. Fishing Small fish called fingerlings. The El-molo are not … The El-molo are fully dependent on fishing. However, due to this pandemic adults …
‘“Visionary” is a terrible word to use,’ Jimmie Hepburn grimaces. ‘I’m not doing this for my own ego. I’m happy for contributions and new ideas; I’m starting from scratch here, but I want people to build upon this.’
… 2009 News Food And Farming Water Agriculture Fish Farms Farm Farming Visionaries … a sustainable, non-carnivorous supply of fish for British tables, and makes Hepburn as … he says. ‘Three to four tonnes of wild fish were needed to make the pelleted feed to …
A family of wild of beavers has established on an English river for the first time since Henry VIII. But now the Government has decided to trap them and consign them to captivity in a zoo or wildlife centre. Defenders of wilderness are now demanding: keep our wild beavers free!
… impact would seem to be zero." They don't eat fish, you know OK, so the Government is no … under the impression that beavers eat fish. Well, anglers, here's something you … twigs and wetland vegetation. Far from eating fish, their presence is revitalising to …
With California's wild Coho salmon populations down to 1% of their former numbers, there's growing evidence that beavers - long reviled as a pest of the waterways - are essential to restore the species, writes Maria Finn. In the process, they raise water tables, recharge aquifers and improve water quality. What's not to love?
… | 1st March 2015 Comment Ecology USA Water Fishing Natural World … pit the state's environmentalists and fishermen against its farmers. In California, … where commercial and recreational salmon fishing brings in $1.5 billion a year, and …
The marine campaign group Oceana has put together a fact sheet about ocean acidification
… December 2009 News Oceans Water Natural World Fish Coral coralreefs.jpg The effects of ocean … sources of nutrition for many types of fish, whales and birds in polar and sub-polar … species, including four thousand species of fish. OCEANA forecasts the mass extinction of …
The 1865 Treaty of Point Elliot is clear, writes Jan Hasselman: the Lummi Nation has the right to fish, hunt and gather in their accustomed places in perpetuity - and they can't do that if a gigantic coal terminal is built in the Salish Sea's most productive waters. First Nations' treaty rights are now central to protecting the Pacific Northwest from destruction by fossil fuels.
… Hasselman: the Lummi Nation has the right to fish, hunt and gather in their accustomed … - a commitment that they'd be able to fish, hunt and gather at all of their "usual … in perpetuity. To say that the salmon, shellfish and other gifts of the landscape are …
The Vezo, Madagascar's indigenous 'sea nomads', are travelling hundreds of miles to the remote 'Barren Isles', the Indian Ocean's largest locally-managed marine protected area, writes Charlie Gardner. Drawn by valuable shark fins and sea cucumbers, sold into Chinese markets, the Vezo are now joining with local fishers to protect the ecosystem and expel illegal divers.
… Charlie Gardner | 8th June 2016 News Oceans Fishing Madagascar Africa Indigenous Peoples … markets, the Vezo are now joining with local fishers to protect the ecosystem and expel … and sea cucumbers has affected traditional fishers in Madagascar. The Vezo live along the …
Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities write TERO MUSTONEN and HANNIBAL RHOADES. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way
… Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee...how … primary growing zones shift, corals die, jellyfish infest waters used for recreation, and urchins destroy fish habitats in kelp forests. Climate …
Over 18 million people live off the natural bounty of the The Mekong Delta, writes Tom Fawthrop - the source of huge annual harvests of fish, rice, fruit, and one of the world's most productive ecosystems. But now huge dams threaten to strangle the Mekong river and the abundant life it supports, while the world sits idly by.
… - the source of huge annual harvests of fish, rice, fruit, and one of the world's most … bioversity, and its enormous importance for fish which feed 60 million people downstream. … and Vietnam fear that the huge freshwater fisheries that support a population of 60 …
In the battle to save America's real wild west of unlogged forests, grizzly bears, mountain goats, Bull trout, free flowing streams and roadless wilderness, a single person stands out, writes Jeffrey St Clair, for her dedication, courage and remarkable success: Arlene Montgomery of Friends of the Wild Swan, Montana.
… in fighting timber sales but in protecting fish. One fish in particular, a little known salmonid … Bull Trout. In a region revered for its fly-fishing, the bull trout remains something an …
The last completely isolated tribe on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal is at risk from illegal fishing, with Burmese boats entering their waters and fishermen landing on their island home. But they had better watch out - two intruders were shot dead with arrows in 2006.
… Illegal fishermen endanger world's most isolated tribe … November 2014 News Indigenous Peoples India Fishing ind-sen-cut.jpg The last completely … in the Bay of Bengal is at risk from illegal fishing, with Burmese boats entering their …
Beavers are Britain's native aquatic engineers and their return to sites in Scotland and England is doing wonders for the local environment, write Nigel Willby & Alan Law: restoring wetlands, recreating natural river dynamics and ecology, filtering farm pollutants from water, and improving habitat for trout and other fish.
… and improving habitat for trout and other fish. Beavers have recently made a tentative … water plants, dragonflies and amphibians to fish and ducks to song birds and bats. In … them all in parallel. Beavers, people and fish have co-existed for thousands of years So …
Dam builders have a new mantra, writes Tom Fawthrop: 'sustainable hydropower'. Repeated at every opportunity, it is based on the unproven idea that large dams can be made 'sustainable' by promising future 'mitigation'. And so it is at the Don Sahong dam in Laos which is about to devastate the mighty Mekong and the 60 million people who depend on it for food and livelihood.
… where 80% of the population depend on fish as their main source of protein, will be … that will block the main artery of fish migration between the two countries. … data published by Catch and Culture MRC's fisheries publication shows that threat posed …
Ecosystems don't collapse a little at a time, writes JAMES DYKE, but all of a sudden. So how can we see the danger signs and act in time to save them? A new study of eutrophic lakes shows that the answer lies, not in easily-measured nutrient levels, but from a more subtle understanding of the lakes' shifting ecology and types of species: keystones, weeds and canaries.
… Ecology Water Pollution Science China dead-fish-cut.jpg Ecosystems don't collapse a … clear water, and an abundance of plants and fish species. It can also be a cloudy, dark … green algal soup with very few plants and fish. Lakes can flip from clear to cloudy …
Pollution, potting and community action at Lyme Bay all demonstrate that we need to think synoptically about living systems.
… Areas South West Water Pollution Potting Fishing Editor’s Picks … the company’s earlier statements. Limiting fishing Reporters on the marine environment do … up to a voluntary agreement limiting their fishing effort in the common interest. There …
The Kwegu people of Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley are facing starvation because of the loss of their land to a huge sugar plantation, the destruction of their forest and the damming of the Omo river - supported by a UK, EU and World Bank funded 'aid' program.
… damming of the river on which they depend for fish and flood irrigation of crops. The Kwegu, … believed to number no more than 1,000, hunt, fish and grow crops along the banks of the Omo … - as confirmed by recent satellite images . Fish stocks on the Omo river are also greatly …