Fisherman faces prison, fine for cruel act on rare fish
A man who was seen on his fishing boat using a power saw to cut off the nose of a live 12-foot smalltooth sawfish pleaded guilty Friday of killing the endangered species and faces serious consequences for his cruel act.

'Up to their waists in blood': New drone video exposes Japanese dolphin slayers
In activist group Dolphin Project’s most confronting video yet, men in motorboats have herded the pod into a place known as The Cove.
Dolphins jump out of the water, but a patch of the blue ocean has already turned red with dolphin blood.

Colombian Government authorizes shark fishing and the use of its fins
Great surprise and rejection has caused resolution 350 of October 25, 2019, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Colombia, which establishes the global quotas for the fishing exploitation of different species in the seas of the Latin American country for 2020.

’Rampant’ fishing continues as vaquita numbers dwindle

• An expedition surveying the Gulf of California for the critically endangered vaquita porpoise has reported seeing more than 70 fishing boats in a protected refuge.
• Vaquita numbers have been decimated in the past decade as a result of gillnet fishing for another critically endgangered species, the totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder can fetch more than $20,000 per kilogram ($9,000 per pound) in Asian markets.
• Local fishing organizations in the region say that the government has stopped compensating them after a gillnet ban, aimed at protecting the vaquita from extinction, went into effect in 2015.

SkyTruth identified the bulk carrier Lumoso Aman as the likely polluter via AIS and satellite imagery.
On October 10, 2019, SkyTruth discovered yet another likely bilge dumping incident in Southeast Asian waters. At 10:25:26 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), Sentinel-1 Imagery captured this oily pollution during routine monitoring of the Makassar Strait. Lingering off the southwest coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, this oil slick measures approximately 33 kilometers long. The slick and the suspected responsible vessel (circled in red in Figure 1 below) appear roughly 100 kilometers west of the coast of Makassar, the capital of Sulawesi. Makassar is a port city with active commerce and tourism.

'We need to be better': Biologist's plea as search continues for who shot Auckland's famous leopard seal
A marine biologist says we need to learn to live with wildlife better as the search continues for who shot Owha, Auckland's resident leopard seal.
The celebrity seal, who measures over 3m in length and weighs about 400kg, was spotted bleeding from her face at the weekend from a suspected bullet wound.

KINA’S QUESTIONABLE RETIREMENT HOME
For almost three years, the last captive false killer whale (pseudorca) in the United States has been kept off exhibit in a half-century old park. This park is located in Oahu, Hawaii, where during the year, the locals have made their disapproval known.

Cape Town searches for answers in disappearing shark mystery
Cape Town residents don't know who to blame for the disappearance of their great white sharks: the orcas that eat them, the fishermen who sell their prey to Australia for use in fish-and-chips shops, or gradual ecological change

Sex drug mafia hunting for ‘cocaine of the sea’ is wiping out world’s most endangered whale
ILLEGAL fishing for the ‘cocaine of the sea’ totoaba fish could be about to result in the extinction of the world’s smallest whale.
The vaquita porpoise is just one of the many species falling victim to the destructive poaching methods of Mexican drug cartels and Chinese traffickers as they join forces to poach the rare totoaba fish for its swim bladder.

Costa Rica colaborará con Paul Watson y Sea Sheperd contra la pesca ilegal
La organización conservacionista Sea Shepherd anunció el lanzamiento de la Operación Treasured Islands para finales de año, la cual pasará por varios países del continente, incluido Costa Rica.

Iconic conservationists Paul Watson and Dave Foreman: putting earth and sea first
Paul Watson is founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which has attacked the practice of illegal whaling by any means necessary–without ever injuring a single person. A modern-day pirate whose only goal is to protect our oceans, he’s been called everything from eco-terrorist to ocean savior.
Dave Foreman is founder of Earth First and the Rewilding Institute. His controversial tactics, including sabotage, “monkey-wrenching,” and other non-violent direct actions, have led to major conservation victories.

Whale Rescued in Gabon
Last month, an eco-guard from Gabon’s National Parks (National Agency for National Parks) came across a humpback whale that was entangled in a discarded Fish Aggregating Device (FAD). The whale had been struggling for some time, and was in urgent need of assistance. Photos by Tim Watters/Sea Shepherd.

Sea-Saving Documentary ‘Watson’ Sails On Animal Planet, Will Bow In Festivals, TV, Theaters This Fall
EXCLUSIVE: Animal Planet has acquired worldwide television rights to Participant and Terra Mater Factual Studios’ documentary film Watson. The film chronicles Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson, who has spent his life sailing the globe to keep the oceans and their inhabitants safe.

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