The migrations of wild salmon over thousands of kilometres are an enduring mystery, writes Chris Todd - as are the reasons for a steep and alarming decline in salmon weight, fat and overall condition.
… Wild salmon starve at sea as North Atlantic warms … Comment Fishing Climate Change Natural World salmon-jumping.png The migrations of wild salmon over thousands of kilometres are an …
The two largest grocery stores in the United States, Kroger and Safeway, have promised to not sell GMO salmon. Over 9,000 stores nationwide have now committed to being free of the controversial fish.
… Largest US grocery stores say 'no' to GMO salmon The Ecologist | 7th March 2014 News GMOs Fish Food Farming USA Gm Food salmon.png The two largest grocery stores in … and Safeway, have promised to not sell GMO salmon. Over 9,000 stores nationwide have now …
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.
… Farming trinityalgae2014-cut.jpg Large scale salmon deaths are imminent on the Klamath … to prevent a mass killing of wild Chinook salmon. 'Preventative flows' are desperately … releases until large numbers of adult salmon die. They say that emergency flow …
In California, water no longer runs to the sea - it runs towards money, writes Will Parrish. Most of the state's water is already controlled by agribusiness elites. Now, backed by politicians, they are planning to grab the little that's left, leaving nature and indigenous communities high and dry.
… cyclops, daphnia, fresh-water shrimp, salmon, trout, indigenous people, rafters, and … waterway and formerly the most productive salmon fishery in the United States. The … back intruding salt water. Whither the salmon? With regard to the impacts on …
Two huge open pit mines in northern Norway are on the verge of approval, writes Tina Andersen Vågenes - even though they would dump hundreds of millions of tonnes of tailings in fjords where wild salmon spawn. Scientists are voicing serious concerns, and protests are growing, but government and mining companies appear determined to push the projects forward regardless.
… of tonnes of tailings in fjords where wild salmon spawn. Scientists are voicing serious … in Førdefjorden, in a spawning area for wild salmon, blue ling and the endangered coastal … will be dumped in a spawning area for wild salmon, blue ling and the endangered coastal …
The Bering Sea is America's biggest fishery - but factory trawlers are ripping the guts out of the ecosystem, writes Jeffrey St.Clair, as they have already devastated fishing communities. Mix in nuclear bomb test fallout - an unlikely savior?
… indiscriminately snared while foraging for salmon, are also part of the haul. The sea … benefits of diets laden with Pollock, salmon and perch. Fish seems to lower bad … listeria, vibrio vulnifcus and, yes, salmonella. Testing for such dangers is even …
The winter Olympics at Sochi have trashed the National Park that contains Russia's richest biodiversity, writes Igor Chestin. Worse, the gutting of key environmental laws means that it can happen all over again, and again.
… endangered Black Sea population of Atlantic Salmon. Now, no more salmon come up the river due to pollution and …
The US Forest Service is developing a new armory of aggressive and often illegal tactics to push through loss-making timber sales, as it brands forest defenders as 'eco-terrorists'. Time to dig in for the trees - and the wolves.
… acres of temperate rainforest and pristine salmon habitat in the Mt. Hood National …
Newly assertive citizens and consumers are putting the world's most feared and powerful corporations on the defensive, writes Ronnie Cummins. Now is the time to press home our advantage!
… highly controversial, genetically engineered salmon that threatens the livelihoods of …
The US is not enforcing a law which requires imported fish to comply with US standards for marine mammal protection - although non-US commercial fisheries are killing 650,000 marine mammals a year.
… Americans - shrimp, tuna, crab, lobster, and salmon - present a particularly significant …
America's expanding oil production threatens the pristine Pacific Northwest region of the country with a rash of new oil terminals along the coast, writes Valerie Brown, and hugely expanded traffic of freight trains loaded with hundreds of cars of crude oil heading for California refineries.
… what were claimed to be the world's largest salmon runs. It is already stressed by 14 …
Food - and the land we grow it on - are much too important to be left to 'free' markets, writes Olivier De Schutter. And all the more so when those markets are not really free at all, but grossly distorted in favour of the rich.
… where they command more money as feed for the salmon and trout rich consumers will buy. …
Until demand for fish is balanced with sustainable methods of production, write Ruth Thurstan & Callum Roberts, governments should consider the social and environmental implications of promoting greater fish consumption. Worldwide, wild fish supplies per person have been declining ever since 1970.
… fish - mainly mackerel, herring and farmed salmon - to the EU, the US and Russia, …
The UK's coastal waters are producing little but tiddlers and scallops, writes Jason Hall-Spencer - and to blame is the endless gouging of the seabed by trawlers and dredgers - even in 'marine reserves'. We must allow our marine ecosystems to rebuild!
… to the fishes' spawning areas . Most of the salmon, bass and bream we eat come from from …
Genetically modified food is flooding into the UK through the back door. Few consumers know that the meat and dairy products they eat may have been made from animals fed a diet containing GM crops.
… poultry and NZ lamb and UK farmed trout and salmon. "Along with all other supermarkets, …
Maria Evrenos left her wallet at home for a week to discover that even an inexperienced urban forager can survive without money for a week by treasuring other people's trash.
… me half a pint of milk and smoked Norwegian salmon. Both were past their use by date by a …
Rothamsted Research has applied to field trial GM Camelina plants that make long chain omega-3 fatty acids - an important nutrient currently available only from fish. This poses a dilemma for those who have so far opposed GMO foods.
… but ... fish. That is, high value fish like salmon kept in fish farms and fed on low value …
Hormone-disrupting pollutants in the urban rivers of South Wales are having adverse effects on the health and development of wild birds such as dippers, writes Steve Ormerod. Could this humble bird be the 'new canary' for environmental toxins?
… dippers to reveal where migrating Pacific salmon 'bio-transported' pollutants from the …
Conservation groups have mounted a legal challenge to an 'unprecedented' program to exterminate two entire wolf packs in the Idaho Wilderness - intended to inflate elk numbers and attract recreational hunters
… around Big Creek and the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. The region hosts one of the …
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!
… now. Those were the days when millions of salmon and eels migrated up our rivers every …
The Ecologist Guide to Food is no soft-centered feel-good flim-flam, warns Jan Goodey, as it tackles tough topics like the slave labour behind your prawns and tomatoes: essential reading for concerned gourmets everywhere.
… to make fishmeal for the Western-backed salmon farms while the locals live and work in …
Thanks to cheap water and plentiful sunshine, California grows most of the US's fruit, vegetables and nuts, writes Joshua Frank. But with the drought looking ever more permanent, the $40 billion industry is facing a terminal crisis. It's only a matter of time before we have to rely on local produce - so let's make a start now!
… of the environment. Rivers have evaporated, salmon have gone extinct, and entire …
In BC, Canada, a surge in trophy hunting may be reducing Grizzly bear populations, writes Anna Taylor. A new study finds evidence of serious Grizzly bear 'overkill' from multiple causes of mortality - in which trophy hunting is a big contributor.
… are not yet fully understood, from declining salmon stocks on BC's coast, white-bark pine …
A new report on the Channel's fisheries is a timely reminder of the ecological trend to 'simplification' as whole trophic levels are stripped away by over-exploitation, writes Horatio Morpurgo. Yet the government's profit-focused vision of 'sustainability' is missing the essential element - allowing the recovery of marine ecosystems.
… "What do you catch in the sea?" "Herrings and salmon, dolphins and sturgeon, oysters and …