Individual Fishing Quotas: A Failure in Fisher...

Individual Fishing Quota (IFQ) programs - also called rationalization, individual transferable quotas or limited access privilege programs are a form of privatizing fisheries. They grant certain ind...

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Offshore Aquaculture Kept Afloat With Governmen...

T he U.S. Department of Commerce strongly supports the National Offshore Aquaculture Act of 2007 and its purported promise for the nation’s economy. The department manages marine resources through ...

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Protect the Gulf from Dirty and Dangerous Indu...

Fact Sheet Protect the Gulf from Dirty and Dangerous Industrial Fish Farms I n September 2007, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council released a draft of an amendment that would streamlin...

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Yuck! Weak Regulatory Structure Allows Harmful...

Yuck! Weak Regulatory Structure Allows Harmful Aquaculture Chemicals and Waste to Slip Through s overfishing, poor fisheries management, and increasing seafood demand have led to a rapidly dwindling ...

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Hungry Halibut: Offshore Aquaculture’s Appetit...

Fact Sheet Hungry Halibut I Disappearing Anchovies and Other Small Fish Industrial fishing fleets take fish from the ocean faster than the fish reproduce. More than 75 percent of the ocean fisheries ha...

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Chemicals of Concern

Fact Sheet Open Ocean Aquaculture: Chemicals of Concern to Human Health and the Environment T he Bush administration promotes the development of a $1 billion offshore aquaculture industry as a w...

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How to Go rBGH-Free

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has estimated that over 40 percent of large dairy operations in the United States inject their cows with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH), a synthe...

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The False Promise of Ocean Aquaculture in Hawai`i

For the past 10 years, Hawai`i’s state-controlled waters have been a testing ground for the industrial ocean fish farming industry. But after a decade and an investment of millions in taxpayers’ do...

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Ocean Fish Farming

A dozen reasons to stop ocean fish farming in the United States

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Cargill Fact Sheet

Today, the global food system is in the hands of alarmingly few corporations that can run roughshod over consumer health, the environment and human rights. Cargill is one of these companies.

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Not Worth Its Salt - Fact Sheet

United Water New York is presenting its proposal to build a desalination plant on the Hudson River as Rockland County’s best long-term water supply option. Yet community members and organizations...

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Cargill – Arkusz Informacyjny

Światowy system żywnościowy znajduje się obecnie w rękach kilku korporacji, które nie przywiązują wielkiego znaczenia do zdrowia konsumentów, ochrony środowiska i praw człowieka. Cargill jest jedną...

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Unseen Hazards from Nanotechnology to Nanotoxic...

Unfortunately, the enormous potential of nanotechnology to quell the world’s problems may be offset by its potential to cause harm. There is legitimate concern that the nano-sized particles employe...

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Harmful Aquaculture Chemicals and Waste Slip Th...

With many wild fish resources depleted worldwide, offshore aquaculture is billed by some as the only way to increase future fish production. However, this industry is plagued with various problems,...

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About the Marine Stewardship Council

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) was established in 19961 as an eco- labeling and certification program with the purpose of letting consumers know which fisheries are considered “sustainable” b...

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How Can Farmed Salmon Impact Your Health and t...

Go Wild! Choose Wild-caught Alaskan Salmon!

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Climate Change: It's What's for Dinner

We all know that driving a gas-guzzling SUV contributes to climate change, but did you know that what you put on your plate could too? Here’s how your food choices affect climate change and what yo...

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Disasters in Ocean Aquaculture

Ocean aquaculture — the mass production of fish in enormous, floating pens or cages in the sea — has been largely an unmitigated disaster in the countries where it has been practiced commercially. ...

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Is Nestlé’s Spring Water Bottling Plant a Raw D...

Nestlé wants to build a spring water bottling plant in the Columbia River Gorge town of Cascade Locks. If this plant follows the trend seen in other communities around the country, it could be a ra...

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Fair Fisheries Management in Namibia

Countries around the world are suffering from depleted fish populations and are desperately struggling to develop plans to rebuild and sustainably manage valuable fish resources. Namibia has a deve...

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