Marine life

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• Marine reserves review: Coalition says recreational fishers have been left out

  12 Sep 2014: The Coalition has suspended the usage plans for vast network of marine reserves set out by the previous Labor government

• WA shark cull: conservationists ‘ecstatic’ summer program ruled out

  12 Sep 2014: <strong> Guardian Australia: </strong> Premier says government will not appeal EPA recommendation against policy due to uncertainty about impact on great whites

• Shark cull rejected by Western Australia Environmental Protection Authority

  11 Sep 2014:

  No baited drumlines will be set this summer after concerns over program’s impact on great whites leads to EPA recommendation

• Gray whale swims near boats in Californian harbour - video

  Video (35 sec), 10 Sep 2014:

  A gray whale is spotted in California's Marina Del Rey Harbour on Tuesday evening

• David Attenborough returns to the Great Barrier Reef for a new BBC series

  9 Sep 2014: Veteran wildlife presenter to film three hour-long nature documentaries for BBC1 to be broadcast next year

• Byron Bay shark attack victim named as British expat Paul Wilcox

  9 Sep 2014:

  50-year-old mauled by suspected great white while swimming off Clarkes beach in New South Wales dies of his injuries

• Man killed in shark attack at Byron Bay

  9 Sep 2014: Emergency services are hunting a large shark after it killed a 50-year-old local swimming in the shallows at Clarkes beach

• Blue whales return in near historic numbers to the waters off California

  5 Sep 2014: Largest animals on earth now number at about 2,200 in the Pacific waters near the US west coast, though boats continue to strike them

• Japan set to wade into diplomatic row by bypassing ban on whaling

  4 Sep 2014:

  Tokyo poised to submit plan for 'scientific' programme of whale slaughter in Antarctic to get round ban on commercial whaling

• Two unclassifiable species found off Australian coast

  4 Sep 2014: Mushroom-shaped organisms found on south-east continental slope cannot be placed in any existing phylum
  

• Great Barrier Reef: Senate inquiry calls for halt to sediment dumping

  4 Sep 2014: Report says more studies needed into impacts of dredging and calls for end to cuts to government agencies that protect reef

• Maine lobster and Cape cod under threat from rapidly warming seas

  3 Sep 2014: Long-established species flee to colder environment as Gulf of Maine waters heat up faster than 99% of world’s oceans

• Why independent fishers are the key to seafood sustainability

  1 Sep 2014: Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio and Sissel Waage: More people are paying attention to ethics in the seafood industry than ever before. Retailers need a new approach

• Japan's annual dolphin slaughter begins at Taiji cove

  1 Sep 2014: Bad weather could delay killing on first day of controversial six-month dolphin hunting season, official says

• Charlie Sheen says Danish authorities are complicit in pilot whale ‘slaughter’

  1 Sep 2014: Actor had donated boat used by activists who were arrested after trying to save pod of 33 pilot whales in Denmark’s Faroe Islands

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