Top News Stories

Feds plan ocean zoning, replacing 'open seas'
Source: Gloucester (Mass.) Daily Times, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010

Well below the low-water line for news, the White House is moving to create a system for managing the space - surface and depth - of federal waters that amounts to ocean zoning and is known as "marine spatial planning."

Whales keep herring down, scientists says
Source, Boston Globe, Monday, Feb. 8, 2010

ANCHORAGE - Something is holding down the herring population of Prince William Sound, and marine scientists are tailing some rather large suspects: humpback whales.

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James Anderson lifts a 202-lb., 75-inch bluefin tuna caught aboard the True North on Jeffreys Bank outside of Portland, Maine.

 

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