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Fisheries with a marine emphasis

Soil & Water Conservation Society of Metro Halifax (SWCSMH)

August 30, 2007

NOTE: This page contains select articles, mostly from the reliable media, and is intended for posterity only. We do not dwell into scientific debates or research in this page unlike some of our other web pages! There are always major lessons to be learnt from past controversies. In addition, this does not dwell into a myriad of water quality issues with some exceptions.

Census of Marine Life Portal: "The Census of Marine Life is a growing global network of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future", August 2007
- Ocean study unlocking code of life via bacteria: 10-year, $1-billion probe reaches halfway point; October 2005
Ongoing controversies in issues relating to overfishing:

Marine overfishing issues

The Boris Worm war – is a truce possible?; July 2007
Epilogue on Prof. Dr. Ransom Myers, a world stalwart; March, 2007
Leading scientists decry loss of big ocean predators; July 2005
Greenpeace, Regan disagree: Moratorium not needed, says fisheries minister; July 2005
Without cod, all bets are off: Research scientists Brian Petrie, Jae Choi and Ken Frank discuss Scotian Shelf ecosystems at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth on Thursday; June 2005
'Blue frontier' is decimated; Dalhousie News, June 2003
DFO Minister Tobin denies trying to hide cod report; August 23, 1997
Meddling in fish research slammed; June 24, 1997; Federal DFO scientists

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Fisheries with a marine emphasis

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Marine overfishing issues