SeaSpan Newsletter October 2006SeaSpan--Marine Conservation News from the Pew Institute for OceanScienceOctober - A  2006, volume 12-17******************************************CONTENTS:*SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Pew Institute Seeks Director for Operations andStrategic Planning DevelopmentA) FEATURE1) U.N. to Consider Deep Sea Trawling BanB) NEWS AND VIEWS2) U.S. President Bush Calls for Halt of Bottom Trawling3) Popular Soup Imperils Sharks4) Mercury Contamination Moves Beyond [...]

Star Tribune (Minneapolis - St. Paul, Minnesota) Ongoing Series: Water in MindAugust 2006http://www.startribune.com/10089/index.html

LUMCON Executive Director Testifies for the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans March 24, 2006 LUMCON Executive Director, Dr. Nancy N. Rabalais, presented testimony to a congressional field hearing on March 21, 2006, in Gretna, Louisiana. The hearing for the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Oceans was chaired by Honorable Wayne Gilchrest, R-MD. The purpose [...]

Gulf dead zone triple forecasted sizeJuly 2005, Houma Daily Courier By KIMBERLY SOLET Senior Staff Writer, Houma Courier   (Heather Gorman/The Courier) Zoom       COCODRIE -- Local scientists on a cruise to the Gulf of Mexico last week discovered the dead zone is triple the size their federal colleagues predicted earlier this summer.Last [...]

It's the nitrogen, stupidAugust 04, 2005Times-Picayune, editorial page The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this summer is smaller than last year, but the credit goes to weather conditions, not human efforts to reduce nutrient pollution, so it's hardly cause for celebration. Marine scientist Nancy Rabalais, who measures the area every year, found that [...]

ANOTHER "DEAD ZONE" MAY LOOM OFF OREGON COAST August 04, 2005; Oregon State University News and Communication Services  http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2005/Aug05/change.htmBy David Stauth, 541-737-0787 SOURCE: Jane Lubchenco, 541-737-5337Ronald Neilson, 541-750-7303 CORVALLIS - The Pacific Ocean off of Oregon has experienced a die-off of birds, declining fisheries and wildly fluctuating conditions in the past few months, and has [...]

Storm-stirred waters help shrink Gulf's low-oxygen dead zoneAugust 02, 2005; The Times-PicayuneBut it's still too big, marine scientists sayBy Mark Schleifstein Staff writer The dead zone, large patches of water along Louisiana's coast containing very low levels of oxygen, was smaller than last year's but, at 4,564 square miles, still more than double the goal [...]

Big trouble on reefs off Sarasota Fl August 2005 From: "pam" <pamar@comcast.net> To: "Nancy Rabalais" <nrabalais@lumcon.edu> Subject: Re: big trouble on reefs off Sarasota Fl Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 01:01:05 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Aug 2005 04:52:40.0764 (UTC) FILETIME=[2C0B6FC0:01C59C9E]     Dear Dr. Rabalais,    Carl Deaver, a marine field biologist [...]

Mapping of Dead Zone CompletedPRESS RELEASE, JULY 29, 2005 The coast wide extent of the Louisiana "dead zone" mapped this week is 11,840 square kilometers (or 4,564 square miles), slightly smaller than the size of Connecticut, reported Dr. Nancy Rabalais, Chief Scientist for Northern Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Studies. The low oxygen waters extended from [...]

Smaller Gulf dead zone brings boon to fishermenJuly 20, 2005, Houma Daily Courier By KIMBERLY SOLET Senior Staff Writer           HOUMA -- Fishermen trawling in the Gulf will have an easier time catching shrimp this summer because scientists are forecasting that the dead zone, or amount of dissolved oxygen suffocating marine [...]