Your Monthly Digest on Ocean News
9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar's Pemba Island.
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🗞️ THE LATEST IN OCEAN NEWS
🇹🇿 9 people dead and 78 others hospitalized after eating sea turtle meat on Zanzibar's Pemba Island.
🇯🇵 Japan has launched its new whale-killing mother ship to replace the Nisshin Maru, The Kangei Maru
🇨🇴 Son of Cali Cartel leader tied to Colombia-Hong Kong shark fin trafficking.
This is the story of the largest seizure of its kind ever carried out in Colombian territory. A shipment of more than 3,400 shark fins destined for Hong Kong was intercepted at the airport in Bogotá in September 2021.
🇺🇸 Overfishing of king salmon in Alaska is pushing local endangered orcas to starvation
🪼 Hundreds of thousands of tiny sea creatures whash up on beaches from California to British Columbia.
🐟 Critics allege EU’s ‘toxic collusion’ with fishing lobbies is damaging Indian Ocean tuna.
🇺🇬 EU caught financing fish farming on lake Victoria, Uganda, that is decimating the local habitat.
😍 TOP GOOD OCEAN NEWS
🐬 Marineland Miami ordered to close after 120 animal deaths.
🦭 An NGO in Namibia is focusing on saving baby seals from discarded fishing lines and plastic debris.
🇳🇿 Another 100 new marine species discovered off the coast of New Zealand
🎈 Florida bans the intentional release of balloons due to the deadly consequences for marine life.
🐢 Study reveals extensive leatherback turtle activity along U.S. coastline.
🇨🇦 Canada bans bottom trawling in its only coral reef that scientists say shouldn’t exist.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), is taking measures to protect the unique and highly sensitive Lophelia Reef—also known by its Wakashan name q̓áuc̓íwísuxv—by closing all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fisheries, including midwater trawl, within this area.🇬🇧 A social enterprise in the UK offers young people paid opportunity to protect UK oceans.
🤯 Mindblowing marine wildlife fact we learnt this month: Over 500 species of fish can change sex as adults.