The Faroe Islands' annual whale hunt has begun, sparking condemnation from animal rights groups – though it remains a complex cultural issue
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Whale hunts have been branded inhumane by activists and authorities as Icelandic report finds they suffer a long and painful death
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Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
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Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
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Alaska cancels snow crab season for first time after population collapses
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The Norwegians should not have killed Freya the walrus – if we valued the lives of animals, we would not simply exterminate the ones that inconvenience us
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Is Japan's whaling industry going under as demand sinks?
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Faroe Islands to provisionally limit its controversial dolphin hunt to 500 animals after receiving widespread criticism
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After a four-year hiatus, Iceland's last remaining whaling company will resume its hunt this summer, much to the chagrin of tourism officials
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Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
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Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
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Iceland's plan to end commercial whaling is driven by falling demand but also a fifteen-year-long campaign aimed at their biggest consumers of whale meat – tourists
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Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
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Commercial whaling in Iceland could be banned within two years, after a government minister said there was little justification for the practice
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Humble suckers: Pacific lamprey have survived five mass extinctions but are now under threat
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The search for what's harming Florida's beloved bonefish
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The world's first octopus farm - should it go ahead?
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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
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Norway is to introduce new traps to protect wild salmon after experts warned they could become endangered as a result of contact with their farmed counterparts
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Practice of dolphin hunting in the Faroe Islands has come under renewed scrutiny after more than 1,400 of the mammals were killed in one day
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International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
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Study seeks origins of ghost nets that haunt Hawaii’s shores
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An invasion of king crabs from Russia into Norway created a lucrative fishing industry – and difficult choices
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Does it make sense to grow fish in indoor tanks? Inland farms offer an alternative to diminishing wild Atlantic salmon stocks, but the price tag is higher carbon emissions
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Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales
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Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
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Destroying a way of life to save Louisiana: The state’s $50 billion plan to re-engineer its coastline may wash some fishing communities off the map
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Commercial whaling may be over in Iceland – citing the pandemic, whale watching, and a lack of exports, one of the three largest whaling countries may be calling it quits
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'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past forty years
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Catch me if you can: The tale of a notorious fishing vessel shows just how difficult combating illegal activity at sea can be
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Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
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Trawlers return to Pacific Ocean fishing area in rare environmental success story
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Sea temperatures off the Angolan coast have warmed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the past century, decimating the once-booming fishing town of Tombwa
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Iceland accused of putting mackerel stocks at risk by increasing its catch
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The sea is running out of fish, despite nations’ pledges to stop it
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The strange, uncertain fate of one of the world’s most valuable salmon habitats
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Japan resumed commercial whaling after thirty-one years. New photos show what that looks like
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Canada passes Bill C-68, overhauling the Fisheries Act and banning import and export of shark fins
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90% of Sri Lanka corals are dead
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"A big fugazi": Why fishermen still can't get behind offshore wind
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Army Corp begins hearings on draft EIS in Alaska for proposed Pebble Mine
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UK ban on discarding edible fish at sea thwarted by industry
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Seychelles issues world’s first blue bond to fund fisheries projects
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Japan launches bid to end ban on commercial whaling
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Whale hunt in Faroe Islands turns sea red with blood
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Can dogfish save Cape Cod fisheries?
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The Aral Sea is bringing new wealth to fishing villages in Kazakhstan, but their neighbours on the opposite shore in Uzbekistan are suffering a very different fate
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This mine threatens America’s largest wild salmon run
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