Victory! The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has ordered a 6-month emergency closure of the bottom longline fishery in the Gulf of Mexico to protect sea turtles from injury and…
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As the young and old residents of television’s favorite – and recently revived – zip code 90210 heated up the screen in last night’s episode with their relationship dramas, the…
Action Required to Prevent Deaths of Threatened and Endangered Sea Turtles
The National Marine Fisheries Service (“NMFS”) has ordered a 6-month emergency closure of the Bottom Longline fishery in the Gulf of Mexico to protect imperiled sea turtles from capture and death in the fishery.
Before the last administration left office, a measure was introduced that was so incredibly unacceptable that I couldn’t believe what I was reading. If it had passed, important decisions could…
A series of severe storms in the Houston area on the weekend before Earth Day forced the cancellation of one major Earth Day event, but, thanks to many volunteers, the…
(San José, Costa Rica – April 22, 2009)–The Costa Rican organization Pretoma is requesting that the United States government deny sea turtle protection certification to Costa Rica’s shrimp trawl fleet and implement an embargo on all Costa Rican shrimp exports.
GotMercury submitted comments on a draft report recently released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the risk and benefits of mercury-in-seafood. There are concerns the report is an…
Texas fish sellers would have to warn pregnant women about the risks of eating some kinds of mercury laden fish under a proposal given initial approval from the Texas House…
A New Jersey woman can sue a tuna fish producer over the mercury poisoning she allegedly suffered from eating the company’s canned albacore tuna, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday….
Income Tax Day brought some good news to Texans! The first three Kemp’s ridley nests were documented at the Padre Island National Seashore. Last year 195 nests were found on…