Read more overfishing stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/31893/overfishing.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:31:08 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74505/the-tuna-on-your-plate-may-be-endangered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagYou might suspect a sushi restaurant that doesn’t specify what sort of tuna you’re eating of trying to pawn off an inferior species. Not so. Researchers using novel DNA barcoding technology found that though nearly a third of tuna sold in 31 US restaurants was the prized—and endangered—bluefin....http://www.newser.com/story/74505/the-tuna-on-your-plate-may-be-endangered.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 20 Nov 2009 16:27:26 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69007/overfishing-plagues-filet-o-fishs-main-ingredient.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhat exactly is the fish in a Filet-O-Fish sandwich? It’s a bug-eyed creature from New Zealand called the hoki, and it is apparently under pressure from overfishing, the New York Times reports. New Zealand—while not specifically citing that cause—has been cutting the allowable catch as conservation groups express...http://www.newser.com/story/69007/overfishing-plagues-filet-o-fishs-main-ingredient.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 10:01:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65723/makeovers-spell-doom-for-oceans-ugliest-fish.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDon't like the sound of slimefish fillets? How about some orange roughy instead? Efforts to "rebrand" ugly, unpopular types of fish to make them more palatable to consumers have been successful— too successful, the Washington Post reports. Many species once considered "trash fish" have become dangerously depleted as fishermen run...http://www.newser.com/story/65723/makeovers-spell-doom-for-oceans-ugliest-fish.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 6:32:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64399/attack-survivors-snap-up-chance-to-save-sharks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVictims of shark attacks have gathered in Washington to lend a hand to their one-time foes, reports the Washington Post . The survivors plan to lobby senators to pass a bill setting new restrictions on shark fishing in US waters. A third of the world's shark species are now classified as...http://www.newser.com/story/64399/attack-survivors-snap-up-chance-to-save-sharks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 15 Jul 2009 1:40:12 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63208/greenpeace-mediterranean-a-sea-of-hell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Mediterranean Sea is in crisis because of global warming, according to Greenpeace. The group says its latest research documents the catastrophic effect climate change is having on the environmentally crucial body of water, which it dubs a “sea of hell.” Rising temperatures have sent foreign species like poison puffer...http://www.newser.com/story/63208/greenpeace-mediterranean-a-sea-of-hell.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 30 Jun 2009 14:51:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61834/forget-fur-new-celeb-cause-is-food.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagProtesting fur is so last decade. Celebrities are now championing their favorite food-related causes, whether it's Paul McCartney asking Brits to cut back on meat, Jamie Oliver refusing to serve endangered bluefin, or celebs lining up to publicize a new film about overfishing, the Guardian reports. Why now? Government inaction...http://www.newser.com/story/61834/forget-fur-new-celeb-cause-is-food.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 14 Jun 2009 15:26:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/43897/eu-trims-tuna-catch-experts-warn-not-enough.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe European Commission completed a deal this week cutting back on the fishing of bluefin tuna, the Economist reports, but not sharply enough to save the species, scientists argue. The deal gradually reduces the legal catch from 28,500 tons this year to 19,950 tons in 2010—but conservationists...http://www.newser.com/story/43897/eu-trims-tuna-catch-experts-warn-not-enough.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 29 Nov 2008 2:05:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42807/widen-palate-to-reverse-overfishing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCall him a snob, but Mark Bittman prefers wild fish to their bland, farmed brethren—yet at the rate things are going, “by midcentury, it might be easier to catch our favorite wild fish ourselves rather than buy it in the market,” he writes in the New York Times . In...http://www.newser.com/story/42807/widen-palate-to-reverse-overfishing.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 16 Nov 2008 13:04:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/41361/bluefin-swim-toward-extinction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBluefin tuna are disappearing from the Atlantic and Mediterranean because of overfishing and an ineffectual world agency that's failed in its sole mission of protecting the fish, the Economist reports. Up to 60,000 tons are hauled in each year, legally or otherwise, when the limit should long have been...http://www.newser.com/story/41361/bluefin-swim-toward-extinction.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Nov 2008 8:03:37 CDT