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An Old-Fashioned Shark Hunt The New York Times By DREW HINSHAW While his children slept on the sand during the final hour before daybreak, Pathé Ndong packed a canister of diesel and an icebox full of knives for the day ahead. In Mbour, a shantytown on Senegal’s Atlantic coast, everyone is a fisherman in disguise, [...]

Study Of Skates And Sharks Questions Assumptions About ‘Essential’ Genes Underwater Times By Underwatertimes.com News Service SALISBURY COVE, Maine — Biologists have long assumed that all jawed vertebrates possess a full complement of nearly identical genes for critical aspects of their development. But a paper in the December 16 issue of Science with Benjamin King [...]

‘The whalers have won absolutely everything’: veteran activist The Guardian By Christina Russo Roger Payne first came to prominence more than 40 years ago, when he and a colleague made the discovery that whales sing eerily beautiful songs as a way of communicating. Their 1970 recording of whale sounds, Songs of the Humpback Whale, helped [...]

Fin for a fin: Opposition MP’s bill would ban shark fin imports The Gazette By Amy Chung OTTAWA — New Democrat MP Fin Donnelly introduced a private member’s bill on Thursday to end shark fin imports to Canada. Donnelly, who is the official Opposition fisheries critic, said he was introduced to the inhumane practice of [...]

Canada makes Giant Strides Towards Protecting Sharks Worldwide United Conservationists.org Today in the House of Commons, MP Fin Donnelly, NDP Fisheries and Oceans critic, announced the introduction of Bill C380 which would ban the import of shark fin into Canada. This landmark legislation will make Canada the largest country in the world to ban the [...]

Japanese whalers get $28m in earthquake cash ABC NEWS By Adam Harvey Japan’s whaling fleet has left its home port for another turbulent season in the Southern Ocean, this year courtesy of extra money from the nation’s earthquake recovery fund. Three vessels have set sail from the port of Shimonoseki, in western Japan, with a [...]

SUPPORTER ALERT – PANGEASEED NEEDS YOUR HELP TODAY!!! Your friends at PangeaSeed would greatly appreciate if could take a moment of your day to stop and vote for our video SINK OR SWIM, TOKYO- ART FOR SHARKS.  PADI Sea the Change Video Contest is offering $5,000 USD for the grand prize winner, plus PADI will [...]

The 45 Most Powerful Images Of 2011 BuzzFeed.com What a year it has been! Here’s to 2012 being a more quiet and less destructive year. 1. Robert Peraza, who lost his son Robert David Peraza in 9/11, pauses at his son’s name at the North Pool of the 9/11 Memorial. (Getty Images / Justin Lane) 2. [...]