Climate change and fish farming are endangering the future of Norway's Atlantic salmon
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Iceland's president urged to intervene over Europe's last whaler – conservation groups are asking for the decision to allow Hvalur to hunt to be put on hold until after election
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Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, known for his decades-long fight against Japanese whaling and arrested in Greenland in July, has asked France's president for political asylum
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Finland's Linnunsuo wetland used to be a barren "moonscape" – local fishing communities have transformed it into a biodiverse haven and an important carbon sink
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Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson arrested on an international arrest warrant issued by Japan in Greenland
33 votes -
Atlantic sturgeon are being reintroduced to Swedish waters with the help of scientists and advocates nearly 100 years after they died out in the region
15 votes -
Iceland's government has issued a license to the North Atlantic nation's last fin whaling company to hunt and kill 128 fin whales this year
13 votes -
Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
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Nova Scotia’s billion-dollar lobster wars
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Big farms are under pressure to address the problem of dying salmon in Norway's vast fish-farm industry
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Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters
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How illegal fishing ships hide at sea
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How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed
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How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now.
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Iceland fisheries minister rebuked over 2023 whaling ban – Parliamentary Ombudsman says whaling ban lacked legal footing
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How to stop an Icelandic whale hunt – Elissa Phillips and Anahita Babaei on chaining themselves to the crow's nests of whaling vessels for thirty-three hours
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Finns have been fishing for herring for generations, but new reduced EU quotas are threatening the traditional livelihoods of coastal communities
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The pristine Tana River, bordering Norway and Finland, is littered with the rotting corpses of an invasive Pacific salmon species
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Aquaculture is bringing jobs and money to rural Icelandic regions, but a huge escape of farmed fish in August could devastate local salmon populations
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Iceland allows whaling to resume – activists say that whales will still suffer agonising deaths despite new regulations and monitoring
23 votes -
US federal grants will replace tunnels beneath roads that let water pass but not fish
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Campaign launched on Thursday to boycott the Faroe Islands over their highly controversial slaughter of pilot whales and dolphins
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Brazil claims record shark fin bust: Nearly twenty-nine tons from 10,000 sharks seized
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Iceland suspends whale hunt on animal welfare concerns until the end of August, likely bringing controversial practice to historic end
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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
12 votes -
Norway wants to raise taxes on its aquaculture industry, which could provide a model for how to better manage the marine environment
4 votes -
Norway's Supreme Court could set a legal precedent for control of the natural resources around the strategically important Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic
4 votes -
Research group Whale Wise are investigating how net entanglement is affecting humpback whale populations in Iceland using drones
3 votes -
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
6 votes -
Over sixty pilot whales have been butchered alive in the Faroe Islands' first whale slaughter of the season
2 votes -
Scientists want to protect narwhals, but the Greenlanders who hunt them say their traditions are being ignored
6 votes -
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
4 votes -
Iceland's last remaining whaling company said it planned to hunt this summer for the first time since 2018
5 votes -
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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The enormous hole that whaling left behind
9 votes -
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
5 votes -
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
11 votes -
International seafood company Grieg Seafood leaked nearly 4,000 gallons of chlorine into a northern Norway fjord, killing approximately 96,000 fish
9 votes -
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
6 votes -
Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales
6 votes -
Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
14 votes -
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
6 votes -
'Sushi parasites' have increased 283-fold in past forty years
6 votes -
Iceland didn't hunt any whales in 2019 – and public appetite for whale meat is fading
6 votes