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Florida paradox: Kill a fish, go to jail; kill a million fish, go to market

August 27, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

“These were not just animals” STUART, Florida––Florida authorities,  for the fifth time in sixth years,  are pursuing a case of alleged cruelty to fish,  a category of offense barely recognized anywhere else. Paradoxically,  four million Floridians fish,  more than the fishing populations of California and Texas combined,  and indeed more people than fish in any […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Center for Aquatic Biology & Aquaculture, Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center, Giovanni Del Greco, Kazunori Yamada, Mary Finelli, Matteo Dal Vecchio, Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources

Fish farming foe Kurt Oddekalv, no bunny-hugger, dies trying to save dog

February 4, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

The dog died too Fish farming foe Kurt Willy Oddekalv,  63,  on January 11,  2020 died from drowning and hypothermia suffered in attempting to rescue his daughter’s dog Kompis,  who had fallen through ice on a lake near their home in Kalandseidet, Bergen, Norway. The dog Kompis was found dead nearby. As a sergeant in the […]

Filed Under: Activism, Animal rights & welfare, Disease, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Food security, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Wildlife Tagged With: anti-vaxxer, Jens Stoltenberg, Joseph Mercola, Merritt Clifton, Vince McDonagh

Prince Charles, sea lice, & why salmon farming stinks

July 22, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Norwegian investors hope to delouse the salmon industry with new facility in Maryland BALTIMORE, Maryland––Salmon farming stinks. Business media worldwide have for weeks failed to mention that fact in amplifying a July 7,  2020 announcement that the Norwegian firm AquaCon plans to build a $300 million land-based salmon farm on the eastern shore of Chesapeake […]

Filed Under: Canada, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: John Robins, Merritt Clifton, Paal Haldorsen, Prince Charles, Rob Edwards, Yonathan Zohar

COVID-19 brings no net gains for marine life––except in Iceland

April 9, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

“There is no market,”  but fish,  shellfish,  seals,  & whales are all still hunted WESTERLY,  Rhode Island;  HONOLULU,  Hawaii;  REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Restaurant closures ordered because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have economically crippled the U.S. commercial fishing industry from Long Island Sound to Hawaii,  and have hit the fishing industry worldwide,  but––except in Iceland,  where a case […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Crustaceans, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Iceland, Marine life, Meat issues, Namibia, Norway, Scandinavia, Seals, Sub-Saharan, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Aristos Georgiou, Cynthia Drummond, Joe Roman, Kristján Loftsson, Merritt Clifton, Rick Daysog

Why U.S. furriers don’t advertise much any more

December 30, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Mink coat ads vanish from newsprint  SACRAMENTO,  California––A furrier somewhere in the U.S. may yet buy a page of advertising,  in what little remains of 2019,  in one of the thousands of newspapers that are electronically searchable at www.NewspaperArchive.com. As of December 29,  2019,  however,  the year appeared to be ending without a single NewspaperArchive […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Austria, Belgium, Central Europe, China, Cultural, Denmark, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, Fur & leather, Fur trapping, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Ireland, Isles, Netherlands, Norway, Scandinavia, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wildlife Tagged With: Douglas Lawson, Gavin Newsom, Karl Lagerfeld, Merritt Clifton, Queen Elizabeth II, Richard Carroll

Drove out the snakes? What did St. Patrick do with the Irish wolves?

March 16, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

He made friends with them!             DUBLIN, TEL AVIV,  ROME––As of St. Patrick’s Day 2019,  there are still no wild snakes in Ireland,  more than 1,660 years after the patron saint of Ireland allegedly drove them all out. Paleontologists say there were never any wild snakes in Ireland in the first place. But there were […]

Filed Under: Book & film reviews, Central Europe, Christianity, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Denmark, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Finland, France, Germany, Habitat, Hunting, Ireland, Isles, Italy, Laws, Mediterranean, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, Switzerland, USA, Uses of dogs, Wildlife Tagged With: Brendan the Navigator, Kieran Hickey, Merritt Clifton, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Patrick, Veriticus, Zafir Rinat

Japan hands whales a Christmas gift camouflaged as coal

December 27, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Withdrawal from IWC covers for decision to halt Antarctic whaling TOKYO––Handing whales a Christmas Day gift camouflaged as coal,  Japanese chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga on December 25,  2018 confirmed months of speculation and decades of threats that Japan would withdraw from membership in the International Whaling Commission,  which has maintained a global moratorium on […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Japan, Laws, Laws & politics, Marine life, Marine mammals, Meat issues, Norway, Organizations, Pacific rim, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, South Korea, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Astrid Fuchs, Darren Kindleysides, Mari Yamaguchi, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Ric O'Barry, Yoshide Suga

The gift of reindeer dwarfs the value of Christmas

December 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Reindeer stand between us & the next Great Flood Admit it:  you did not think about reindeer even once between the last Christmas season and this one. Even when you last did think of reindeer,  you thought about them in association with Santa Claus. You probably never thought of reindeer as defenders of the Far […]

Filed Under: Conservation, Deer & other horned species, Eastern Europe, Endangered species, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Habitat, Hunted species, Hunting & trapping, Norway, Russia, Scandinavia, Sweden, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Dropkin, Bob Berwyn, Johan Olofsson, Jon Georg Dale, Mariska Te Beest, Martin Hugh-Jones, Merritt Clifton, Tam Garlan

Revenge-seeking Icelandic “Ahab” denies killing the great blue whale

July 13, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

“Blood feud” with anti-whalers began when Sea Shepherds sank two of his ships in 1986 REYKJAVIK, Iceland––Kristján Loftsson,  the “Captain Ahab” of the North Atlantic,  has furiously denied that the 22nd of at least 27 whales killed by his ships in June and July 2018 was the first endangered blue whale harpooned by whalers since 1978,  […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Humane history, Iceland, Marine life, Meat issues, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Adam A. Pack, Captain Ahab, David Howitt, Gunnar Bergmann Jonsson, Kristján Loftsson, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Phil Clapham, Rod Coronado, Stefán Ásmundsson, Steinar Bastesen

A whale for the saving in Nova Scotia––and what the rescue means

January 6, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

More than 100 Atlantic Canadians turn out to help in sub-zero cold             HALIFAX,  Nova Scotia––Farley Mowat,  whose 1972 book A Whale for the Killing helped to transform human attitudes toward whales worldwide,  would have been gratified by the scene on January 1,  2018 at Rainbow Haven Beach,  just east of Halifax,  Nova Scotia. On […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Book & film reviews, Canada, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Humane history, Marine life, Norway, Religion & philosophy, Scandinavia, The Americas, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Cornelissen, Brian Davies, Farley Mowat, Joey Smallwood, Karl Karlsen, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Peter Hammarstedt, Victor B. Scheffer

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