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Additions to website:
Seal Disease Update - October 23, 2006 Responses from government.
"Seal Oil Leaves a
Fishy Aftertaste..." April 20, 2006, and "Letter
to Minister responsible for safety of seal products" May 20, 2006
Seal
Hunt Ecologically Irresponsible - April 2, 2006
DFO Seal Forum 2005 -
Comments on the new Seal Hunt Plan: specifically, how ecosystem objectives
should be incorporated into this plan, and also,
a letter to the Minister of
Fisheries and Oceans asking him to elicit science advice on the wisdom of
the current seal hunt from DFO's ecosystem scientists - November 21,
2005
Seaweed Update
2005 - Perennial seaweeds in Nova Scotia continue to decline, in
patterns that are consistent with falling ocean fertility. July 12, 2005
Trust the Seals, Fear
the Microbes... Position statement of the Grey Seal Conservation
Society (GSCS) against the Canadian
harp seal hunt. March 14, 2005
Something (else) is
Rotten in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. March 8, 2005
Something is Rotten in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence - in more than one way, this describes the
overall effects of the harp seal hunt: stifling, rather than enabling, the
recovery of the cod stocks. Feb. 11, 2005
"White rocks"
- Another disappearing seaweed story in support of the conclusion that
ocean fertility is gradually declining. Oct. 6, 2004.
A meeting with DFO scientists to
discuss models of marine production - Canadian marine life is in deep
trouble, but the official diagnostic exercise is not going well at all.
Sept. 22, 2004
Saving the 'fat cat' - two
species of catfish, or wolffish, face extinction in Canadian waters. DFO's
pro-industry agenda clashes with the requirements of a new federal law,
the Species at Risk Act. August 28, 2004
Hungry humpbacks? Conflict
between whales and herring fishermen in the Bay of Fundy, plus a
mysterious decline in the health of the herring stock, may force a new
conservation strategy - August 25, 2004
DFO publishes a new
explanation for the cod crisis, admits cod are starving, and exonerates
seals - an update sent to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans. July
25, 2004
May 10, 2004 - A positive
meeting with the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
April 19, 2004 - Letter from
Geoff Regan, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
April 8, 2004 - 'Pseudo-eutrophication?'
- technical arguments regarding unexpected inherent difficulties in
distinguishing between a starving ocean and an overfed one...but seaweed
tells the tale.
April 2004 - Grey Seal
Conservation Society (GSCS) formed in Nova Scotia in opposition to the
proposed new grey seal hunt.
March 9, 2004 - Letter to
Geoff Regan, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, in which I request a
meeting and an urgent inquiry into the state of ocean health/ocean
science. Check back: I will also post his response. (posted above)
March 3, 2004 - Grey Seal
Hunt Proposed in Nova Scotia, an outrageously misguided, ecocidal
plan. This needs to be blocked, and not because the seals are "cute"...
November 16, 2003 - A challenge
to DFO's assessment of a major expansion in Nova Scotian baitfish stocks,
based on overlooked information from Newfoundland science, and from
(starving) baitfish predators.
September 26, 2003 - Where have the
Fish gone? A fresh look at the Ocean: Slides and notes from a
presentation given at Dalhousie University, summarizing evidence of a long
term decline in marine primary production and the role that fishing may
have played in causing it.
May 8, 2003 - Advice to the Commons Standing Committee on
Fisheries and Oceans: Positive features of seal
ecology may be slowing, rather than accelerating, the loss of the
groundfish stocks....once all things are considered...
April 14, 2003 - Advice to the Senate Standing Committee
on Fisheries and Oceans: To rebuild the fish
stocks, first rebuild the zooplankton
April 11, 2003 - Frozen cod
kill story updated Many observations support the hypothesis that
oxygen depletion of bottom water may have played a role.
April 7, 2003 - Cod freeze to
death in Newfoundland(?) ...did they freeze, starve, or suffocate?
...and how does this story relate to other marine ecosystem components
such as seals and zooplankton?
March 22, 2003 - What's
that white stuff in the seaweed? and
Shifting Baseline in the color of
Irish moss.
February 6, 2003 - Thinking
"outside the box" in the case of the mysterious loss of the Canadian cod
stocks
December 5, 2002 - Seals and
Cod
November 26, 2002 - Advice on
Atlantic cod to the FRCC (also brief
submitted to the Canadian Fisheries Resource Conservation Council on Nov.
20/02)
November 6, 2002 - The Downturn of the
Atlantic Cod in Eastern Canada
October 17, 2002, website revised...
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