The laws of ecology, for the survival of the human species
Refusing the anthropocentric vision and respecting the laws of ecology is the only way to safeguard the future of our and all other species. The editorial by Paul Watson, President of Sea Shepherd.

Dramatic rescue to save humpback whale and her calf trapped in shark nets on the Gold Coast

- Two humpback whales were tangled up in beach shark nets on Friday morning
- One of the whales is believed to be a mother while the smaller one was her calf
- The large mammals were seen thrashing around trying to free themselves
- Rescue teams from Sea World and the Fisheries Patrol worked to free them

Trump Ends Protections For Cape Cod's Marine Conservation Area
GUILFORD, Maine. (WBZ NewsRadio) — Crowds of both supporters and protestors of President Trump gathered to see him arrive in Maine on Friday, where he announced a major rollback to the marine conservation land off the New England coast.
President Trump landed at Bangor International Airport on Friday afternoon, and spoke at a roundtable for fisheries stakeholders before visiting a coronavirus swab manufacturing facility.

Whales, dolphins and penguins among 75 marine species killed by ships - report
At least 75 different marine species – ranging from whales to dolphins, sharks, sea otters, seals, penguins and sea turtles – have been recorded as being killed through collisions with ships, as revealed in a review published on Tuesday in Frontiers of Marine Science.

Attempts to Establish Hard Caps on West Coast Drift Gillnet Fishery Questionable
ROHNERT PARK, Calif. — After almost a decade of back-and-forth rule makings and court decisions, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) recently released a rule that would establish hard caps on the West Coast drift gillnet fishery. While hard cap policies ensure that fishing activities halt before irreparable damage is done to a special status species, hard caps only work if they are strictly enforced and that is not what this rule seems to do.

Humpback whale rescued from illegal net off Mexico
Activists rescued a humpback whale on Friday that had been caught in illegal fishing nets in Mexico's upper Sea of Cortes.

Humpback whale rescued from illegal net off Mexico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9zgfKsiqQ4

Young fishermen capture an ENORMOUS deadly bull shark in a river where children regularly swim and splash in the water – and pull NINE babies from it’s stomach
A group of fishermen pulled out a giant bull shark from the Hastings River, NSW
The shark was hauled up by a hook as nine babies spilled out of her stomach
The photo divided social media with many praising the man for killing the animal

SeaWorld Orlando is ending its theatrical orca shows, but they still have a long road ahead
With a new CEO at the helm, SeaWorld looks to be back on track with previously announced plans to phase out entertainment-driven animal shows. Its orca show, "One Ocean," is retiring at the end of December in both Orlando and San Antonio.

Massive salmon farm die-off pollutes British Columbia’s Clayoquot Sound
More than 200,000 salmon have died at a fish farm belonging to Cermaq, a company owned by Mitsubishi that produces farmed Atlantic salmon in Clayoquot Sound. The mass die-off has spread to four other farms in the area.

Japanese kill 223 whales in first commercial whaling season for 31 years
JAPANESE whaling ship Nisshin Maru returned to port today, completing the first commercial whale-hunting season sanctioned by the country in 31 years.

Revealed: illegal tuna fishing rife around Malta’s ‘farms’
Rife illegal fishing of stray wild tuna that lurk around tuna ranching operations some six kilometres off Marsascala’s shore, at the reef known as Is-Sikka Tan-Nofs, may account for the illegal catch of thousands of tuna annually, according to sources who spoke to The Shift.

Sea Shepherd's Paul Watson on salmon farms: 'Our objective is to shut them down'
One of the most notorious and controversial NGO campaigners tells IntraFish his group has a multi-pronged attack ready against the industry.

Island, 13.12.2018:
Caught on camera: How Iceland is Killing Endangered Blue Whales
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQJ5XA-n2o&feature=emb_title

Sea Shepherd founder: “no whales will be killed in international waters” this year
According to its website, the “Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization.” They rely on direct-action tactics to stop illegal activities and are often involved in a confrontation with other ships when trying to stop, for example, illegal whaling.
Their founder, Captain Paul Watson, was in the Tampa Bay area over the weekend for a film screening at Eckerd College and for Tampa Bay Veg Fest.
WMNF sat down with him at an outdoor café in downtown St. Petersburg Sunday to find out about the history of Sea Shepherd and what to expect in the future. In this interview, Watson says, “This year marks the first time in the history of whaling that no whales will be killed in international waters anywhere.” He also talked about what Sea Shepherd plans to do about whaling in territorial waters of Norway, Japan, Iceland and Denmark.

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.

Monster foreign trawlers off Cornwall spark fears over fish stocks and dolphin deaths
Two monster trawlers have again been spotted off Cornwall — sparking fears they are killing marine life and devastating local fish stocks.
Dutch factory trawlers Willem van der Zwan (9,500-tons) and Afrika (7,000-tons) are both believed to be fishing mackerel to be sold to Russian, Nigerian and Japanese markets.

'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.