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Climate Change and the Commercial Fishery (Again)
Posted by jennifer, May 18th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 24
I posted a graph from L.B. Klyashtorin via Walter Starck on May 4, 2008, with comment from Walter that “I have never seen a more succint and telling argument to refute carbon dioxide government climate change”.
The graph though was not of the highest quality, and so Louis Hissink has had it redrawn:
The original post is [...]
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Climate Change and the Commercial Fishery: A Note from Walter Starck
Posted by jennifer, May 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Fishing
Comments: 4
I have never seen a more succinct and telling argument to refute carbon dioxide governed climate change than the following graph from a study by L.B. Klyashtorin pubished as a technical paper by the United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organisation.
from http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y2787E/y2787e1l.gif
The study entitled ‘Climate change and long term fluctuations of commercial catches: possibilities of forecasting’ [...]
Fish Productivity and Climate Change: New book by Klyashtorin and Lyubushin
Posted by jennifer, April 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 1
‘In Cyclic Climate Changes and Fish Productivity’ L.B. Klyashtorin and A. A. Lyubushin consider the relationships between climate changes and the productivity of ocean ecosystems.
Analyses of climate index fluctuations and populations of major commercial fish species for the last 1500 years allowed the authors to characterize the 50-70 year climate fluctuations and fish production dynamics.
Their [...]
Certified Tasmanian Seafood or Not: A Note from Jane Rankin-Reid
Posted by jennifer, March 4th, 2008 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 5
“Fishermen are worried a certification row will confuse consumers, says Jane Rankin-Reid in Saturday’s Mercury newspaper.
Fishermen are unhappy with radio advertisements sponsored by the Marine Stewardship Council promoting their March 2nd “Sustainable Seafood Day”. “Buy only sustainable seafood products branded with the MSC gold label”, the advertisement urges listeners.
“We haven’t been advised of Sustainable Seafood [...]
Fisheries Management in Australia: A New Book by Daryl McPhee
Posted by jennifer, October 12th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 2
Whether it’s throwing a fresh local prawn on the BBQ or dangling a line off the local jetty, fisheries resources are economically and socially important for many Australians. Australian fisheries have undergone significant management changes over the last decade and Australia is now recognised as a world leader.
This book is the first comprehensive analysis of [...]
Starck Reminder: Australia Doesn’t Need to Import Fish
Posted by jennifer, August 4th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 62
“THE protection of Australia’s fisheries is pushing seafood imports to record levels, driving overfishing in other countries and exposing consumers to unacceptable levels of antibiotics and other contaminants.
“Marine biologist Walter Starck said Australians were being forced to consume lower quality seafood imports, many from seriously depleted fisheries, even though Australia had a relative abundance in [...]
Mudtrails from Fishing Trawlers in Gulf of Mexico
Posted by jennifer, June 13th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 10
“The pervasiveness of the influence of bottom trawlers on the Gulf of Mexico is evident in these images from NASA’s Landsat satellite. Showing two different areas of a single scene captured on October 24, 1999, the images reveal dozens of mudtrails streaking the Gulf in the wake of numerous trawlers, which appear as white dots. [...]
Grey Nurse Sharks, on Sunday
Posted by jennifer, March 24th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Fishing
Comments: 25
Dear Jennifer,
Don’t miss the Sunday programme tomorrow on Channel 9. Ross Coulthart exposes phony claims about the “threatened” grey nurse shark.
The eco-nazis have already made a press release ‘Bogus Grey Nurse Sharks Claims Quashed’ responding to the story before it is even broadcast. Obviously they know they are in trouble.
Best,
Walter
Ice Packs Thwart Fishing & Strand Bears
Posted by jennifer, February 10th, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Fishing
Comments: 23
According to Fishupdate.com:
“Fish merchants on the Humber may be throwing up their hands in frustration at the worrying decline in fish supplies from Iceland since the beginning of the year. But the underlying cause is something they would never have guessed at - a massive deep freeze around the west coast of the country.
While the [...]
Coral Reefs May Benefit From Global Warming
Posted by jennifer, January 31st, 2007 - under Uncategorized.
Tags: Climate & Climate Change, Coral Reefs, Fishing, Plants and Animals
Comments: 152
ON Friday in Paris the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will launch a new report, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, with an up-to-date assessment of likely temperature rises because of global warming. Three related reports will be released later in the year, including a report on the likely effects of the rise [...]

