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Advocate for shooting seals turns to pushing hunt for Sasquatch

March 2, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

But seals are still getting shot GREENBANK, Washington––The hunt for whoever is shooting harbor seals,  apparently from a boat,  along the west side of Whidbey Island,  Washington,  intertwines with the hunt for the mythical Sasquatch,  but no,  Sasquatch is not shooting seals,  nor is Sasquatch in any danger of being shot. Yet another young female […]

Filed Under: Canada, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Habitat, Hunting & trapping, Laws, Marine life, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, Seals, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Garry Heinrich, Harrison Mills, Justin Humphrey, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Thomas Sewid

“The poor fish were the real victims,” tank owner says after fire

February 6, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Beginnings of concern for fish suffering emerge even in the desert ST. GEORGE, Utah;  BERLIN, Germany––Josh Wilson of Scenic,  Arizona,  owner of Polaris Can-Am & Honda World in Mesquite,  Nevada,  a longtime sponsor of off-road races,  likely will never be mistaken for a bleeding heart animal rights activist. Yet it can be said that Wilson […]

Filed Under: Belgium, Central Europe, Culture & Animals, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, France, Germany, Italy, Marine life, Mediterranean, Switzerland, Wildlife Tagged With: AgroBiothers, AquaDom, Josh Wilson, Matthieu Lambeaux, Merritt Clifton

Who shot pregnant harbor seals? Thomas Sewid encouraged it.

January 27, 2023 By Merritt Clifton

Seal hater even buys ammo for seal killers             DINES POINT, Washington––Who apparently cruised along the east shore of Whidbey Island,  Washington,  shotgunning pregnant harbor seals on or about January 24,  2023 is as yet officially unknown. ANIMALS 24-7 spent much of January 26,  2023 examining the bloated,  eagle-pecked remains of harbor seal victims,  and […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Meat issues, Native American beliefs, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sea otters, Seals, The Americas, U.S., USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Becca Jaffe, Beth Clifton, Dines Point, Merritt Clifton, Pacific Balance Marine Management, Pacific Balance Pinniped Society

Sea pen fish farming ordered to cease along entire U.S. west coast

November 30, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Washington forced shutdown follows bans in California,  Oregon,  & Alaska OLYMPIA,  Washington––Sea pen fish farming––if Cooke Aquaculture complies with a November 18,  2022 order from Washington state public lands commissioner Hilary Franz––is within two weeks of abolition along the entire west coast of the United States. The Franz order,  unfortunately,  may not be a win […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Cooke Aquaculture, Hilary Franz, Hope Island, Merritt Clifton, Rich Passage

PIRATES! Captain Paul Watson goes down with the sinking Sea Shepherds

September 5, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Under new brass,  it isn’t even the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society any more             SOUTH WOODSTOCK,  Vermont––Japanese and Russian whales,  Atlantic Canadian sealers,  and oceans of marine poachers in other parts of the world never succeeded in sinking Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,  but the organization he founded in 1977 on […]

Filed Under: Activism, Advocacy, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Beliefs, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Humane history, Japan, Marine life, Mexico, Organizations, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Science, Seals, The Americas, USA, Vegetarians & vegans, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Cornelissen, Deborah Bassett, Haans Siver, Merritt Clifton, Peter Hammarstedt, Phil Wollen, Pritam Singh, Rob Stewart, Sharkwater

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

Yes, the Colombian Supreme Court banned sport fishing. What does that mean?

May 20, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The verdict may be more symbolic than substantial BOGOTA,  Columbia––Did the Colombian Supreme Court really ban sport fishing on May 2,  2022,  or is that just the biggest fish story coming out of Colombia this fishing season? Word of the Colombian Supreme Court ruling percolated north three days later with the headline “Colombia bans sports […]

Filed Under: Caribbean, Central America, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Marine life, South America, The Americas Tagged With: Antonio José Lizarazo Ocampo, Camilo Prieto Valderrama, Cristina Pardo Schlesinger, Diana Fajardo Rivera, Gabriel Andrés Suárez Gómez, José Fernando Reyes, Merritt Clifton, Taylor Lennox

Russian war on Ukraine kills dolphins, but fishing kills more

May 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The Black Sea was hard habitat for dolphins even before the shooting started ISTANBUL,  Turkey––That war kills animals as well as humans is scarcely in doubt,  but whether war is worse than peace for Black Sea dolphins may be disputed. Nearly three months after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24  2022,  evidence is surfacing along […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Entertainment, Europe, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Marine life, Marine mammals, Mediterranean, Russia, Ukraine, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife

Sustainability: salmon taste, texture, odor replicated by pond scum

May 7, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

And the pond scum will be healthier than salmon for you & Planet Earth             HERZELIA, IsraeI;  BATON ROUGE,  Louisiana;  WASHINGTON D.C.––Far from the longtime hubs of the salmon industry,  along the coasts of the North Sea and the Pacific Northwest,  the future of both canned and fresh salmon may be determined by desert greenhouses […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Israel, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Mediterranean, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Aldi, Ben Coxworth, Christine Blank, Merritt Clifton, Mowi, Red Lobster, SimpliGood, spirulina, Subway, Tofurky

CITES doomed the vaquita, sold the elephant in the room, & worse

March 15, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

U.N. Environment Assembly calls for yet another report on “the interlinkages between animal welfare,  the environment and sustainable development” after ignoring a mountain of others produced at least since 1950             LYON, France––This is not just a fish story,  nor just a fish-and-elephant story,  nor even just another story about the failures and shortcomings of […]

Filed Under: Activism, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Asia/Pacific, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Global, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Japan, Kenya, Laws, Laws & politics, Laws & standards, Marine life, Meat issues, Namibia, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Religion & philosophy, Sub-Saharan, USA, Welfare, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife, World Tagged With: CITES, International Whaling Commission, Josphat Ngonyo, Merritt Clifton, totoaba, United Nations Environment Program

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