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Lifestyle
Superb Idea: Pay Fishermen to Catch Trash
A pilot project will begin this month which will pay fishermen to ease up on taxed European fish stocks and catch plastic trash instead.
Culture
How Feather Extensions Are Changing the Way Chickens Live (and Die)
Whether it’s Steven Tyler, Miley Cyrus, or sorority girls all across the country, demand for long "saddle feathers" is way, way up.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: The Shocking Shark Fin Trade
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay goes on the hunt for illegal shark fin traders in Costa Rica.
Lifestyle
Wait, a Fishing Hook That Sets Tuna Free?
These new "weak hooks" bend enough to give a greater percentage of the Gulf's bluefin tuna a fighting chance when they're caught accidentally.
Environment
Why Environmental Scientists Are Learning to Listen to the Locals
At Italy's Lake Como, fishermen's knowledge matches hard data and provides some information scientists can't collect on their own.
Lifestyle
Uncovering Fictitious and Fraudulent Fish with the Barcodes of Life
Could the DNA barcodes used to expose widespread fish fraud also become a shopper's best friend?
Environment
Intermission: Fishing Under Ice
Join three fishermen-filmmakers on a trippy, stunning video adventure.
Lifestyle
A World Without Fish, and What You (and Your Kids) Can Do to Change That
Mark Kurlansky's newest book, the illustrated World Without Fish, is a grim primer on the destruction of the ocean ecosystem.
Environment
Urban Aquaculture
Professor Martin Schreibman says our oceans have been overfished beyond repair. If we're going to keep eating fish and chips, tuna tartare,...
The Community Board
How To Eat Sustainable Seafood
If you are what you eat, be sustainable. Read full article
Environment
Somali Pirates a Threat to Ocean Ecosystem
Hijacked ships in the Indian Ocean aren't the only consequence of an increase in piracy in the region. According to an article in New Scientist,...
Business
Going Dutch: How the Netherlands Created a Sustainable Fishing Industry
A combination of policy reform, advocacy and industry leadership has transformed the fishing industry in the Netherlands – but will it catch on?
Lifestyle
Have We Reached Peak Tuna?
Savor that tuna roll, it might be your last. Barry Foy, author of the fictional culinary reference manual, The Devil’s Food Dictionary, once...
Environment
Bluefin Tuna at Risk in Mediterranean, Gulf of Mexico
Treehugger is devoting a considerable amount of coverage to the fate of the bluefin tuna, a critically-endangered fish whose stocks have...
Lifestyle
Overfishing Is Over
One former fisheries scientist says that for the first time in a century, U.S. commercial fishing fleets aren't overfishing.
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Shark Fin Fishing in Japan
The brutal Japanese shark fin trade is exposed in this new video—and a San Francisco-based reporter taste tests the resulting soup.
