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Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads

February 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act brought law to save seals in Scottish waters             EDINBURGH,  Scotland––Seal-shooting salmon farmers have a £5,000 price on their heads,  posted by Animal Concern Scotland on February 1,  2021. The reward is specifically for information leading to the first successful prosecution under a new Scottish seal protection law,  adopted on […]

Filed Under: Canada, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, The Americas, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Bakkafrost, Bernadette Jordan, Edward Kolodziej, John F. Robins, Merritt Clifton, Tavish Scott, Zhenyu Tian

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

Dead fisher played “chicken” with Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat

January 7, 2021 By Merritt Clifton

Would have passed safely if he had not cut to the right SAN FELIPE, Baja California, Mexico––What fisher Mario García Toledo,  56,  had in mind when he swerved his small but speedy panga across the bow of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society vessel Farley Mowat on the morning of December 31,  2020 in the northern […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Feature Home Bottom, Feature Home Top, Fish, Marine life, Mexico, The Americas, USA, Whales & dolphins, Wildlife Tagged With: Alex Cornelissen, Farley Mowat, Mario García Toledo, Merritt Clifton, Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd

Trixie the whale shark dies young at the Georgia Aquarium

December 1, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Three whale sharks left of six brought from Taiwan in 2006-2007             ATLANTA, Georgia––Trixie the whale shark,  who could have lived up to 130 years in the wild,  died on November 27,  2020 after just 14 years at the Georgia Aquarium. Trixie,  believed to have been about 32 feet long,  still about eight feet short […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Asian religions, Australia & New Zealand, China, Conservation, Culture & Animals, Endangered species, Entertainment, Exhibition, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Habitat, Hinduism, India, Indian subcontinent, Marine life, Marine mammals, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (animals), Pacific rim, Philippines, Religion & philosophy, South Africa, Sub-Saharan, Taiwan, Wildlife, Wildlife, Wildlife, Zoos, Zoos Tagged With: David Malakoff, Elson Aca, Eric Hoffmayer, Janet McConaughey, Merritt Clifton, Morari Bapu

China prosecutes 10 times more wildlife scofflaws in 2020 than U.S.

November 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

COVID-19 triggers sustained crackdown on illegal fishers,  poachers, & traffickers BEIJING, China—Cracking down on wildlife-related crime in response to the global COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic,  China prosecuted more than 15,000 alleged perpetrators in the first nine months of 2020. About 7,000 prosecutions were for illegal fishing,  4,000 for poaching land animals and birds,  and 3,000 for […]

Filed Under: Asia, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Birds, China, Crustaceans, Cultural, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Food & agriculture, Hunting & trapping, Marine life, Meat issues, Pacific rim, Poaching & trafficking, Reptiles, Snakes, Southeast Asia, Turtles, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Grace Qi, Merritt Clifton, Shashank Bengali, Sister Hua, Vo Kieu Bao Uyen

Florida fishers break ranks to denounce cruelty to fish

October 27, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Nothing suggests fishers are becoming as sensitive as fish themselves, but even discussing fish sentience & suffering marks a sea change             SARASOTA, Florida––Cruelty to fish,  just a few years ago,  was a topic attracting little attention,  and only derision from media serving recreational fishers,  but three topics hotly discussed in Florida during October 2020 […]

Filed Under: Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Horses & Farmed Animals, Malta, Marine life, Mediterranean, Wildlife Tagged With: Aisha Zahid, David Dipre, David McGrath, Gwen Filosa, Merritt Clifton, Mitchell Willetts, Tim Trone, Victor Paul Borg, Yansel Garrido

Killing the dam sea lions is about hook-&-bullet votes for Trump

August 16, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

And Jaime Herrera-Beutler, Trump stooge in Congress             PORTLAND, Oregon––As many as 540 California sea lions and up to 176 Stellar sea lions are to be sacrificed to placate frustrated recreational salmon fishers,  beginning during the run-up to the November 2020 election and continuing throughout what would be President Donald Trump’s second term if re-elected. […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Food, Laws & politics, Marine life, Meat issues, Native American beliefs, Religion & philosophy, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Barry Thom, Carolyn Long, Donald Trump, Jaime Herrera-Beutler, Lynda V, Mapes, Merritt Clifton, Monica Samayoa

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

Scotland to stop shooting seals to save salmon farm profits––but not until 2021

June 26, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

50-year effort by Scottish seal defenders––but Humane Society of the U.S. blasts out media releases claiming credit DUMBARTON,  Scotland––Culminating a half century of effort by the Save Our Seals Fund,  and Animal Concern Scotland,  led for decades by John Robins of both organizations,  the Scottish Parliament on June 17,  2020 ratified a new Animals & Wildlife […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Fish, Fish, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Isles, Laws & standards, Marine life, Meat issues, Scotland, Seals, USA, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Staniford, John Robins, Kitty Block, Merritt Clifton, Severin Carrell

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

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