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For Dolphins, a Bold Decision by the National Aquarium Eight captive dolphins just earned an early retirement: the National Aquarium, in Baltimore, Maryland, announced Tuesday that it plans by 2020 to move the Atlantic bottlenose dolphins to an ocean
The Hunger Games: Two Killer Whales, Same Sea, Different . . . PCBs are probably the number one threat, Ross notes, but there are more than 100,000 chemicals on the market, and untold numbers are finding their way into the whales’ environment Toxins are a major reason why transient killer whales are listed as threatened under Canada’s Species at Risk Act
The future of whales in our Anthropocene ocean - PMC Bowhead whales have the longest lifespan of all whales, living 200 or more years Some individuals of this species knew an ocean that was quieter, less polluted, and less busy than today’s ocean The great challenge ahead is to find ways to accommodate the inevitable growth of the ocean economy while harming whales less
Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia [326] [327] Until this more than one million claims of 220,000 individual and business claimants were processed and more than $6 2 billion was paid out from the fund 97% of payments were made to claimants in the Gulf States [325] In June 2012, the settlement of claims through the GCCF was replaced by the court-supervised settlement program
Mangrove forests in a rapidly changing world: Global change . . . The Gulf of Mexico is a valuable region for advancing understanding of global change impacts to mangrove forests because, in addition to a rich legacy of ecological research, coastal wetlands in the region are abundant and span multiple ecologically-relevant abiotic gradients (López-Portillo and Ezcurra, 2002; Méndez-Alonzo et al , 2008; Day et al , 2013; Yáñez-Arancibia et al , 2014
Frontiers | Marine Protected Areas: At the Crossroads of . . . Introduction Humans have extracted living marine resources from the ocean for centuries (Jackson et al , 2001; Lotze et al , 2006; Worm et al , 2006) Marine fisheries are highly important for global food security, with fish accounting for about 17% of the global population’s animal protein intake, and provide livelihoods to millions of people around the world ()