 Towards an International Ban on bluefin tuna trade
3 February 2010, adapted from the New York Times
European officials are increasing pressure for an international ban on the commercial fishing of bluefin tuna, a threatened species whose fatty belly is prized for sushi. But they are facing a delicate balancing act as they try to weigh economic interests of a Mediterranean fishing industry, a sushi-loving Japan, and a species that some experts say is on the verge of extinction ...
ICCAT takes decisive action to protect bluefin tuna and other marine species
11 November 2009
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) has met in Brazil and adopted a number of new multi-annual management plans which align fishing opportunities with the latest scientific opinions. Mediterranean nations can be particularly satisfied with the consensus ...
Come summer, come Rhopilema
Bella Galil, CIESM News, 10 June 2010
Each summer since the mid 1980s huge swarms of the Erythrean jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica have appeared along the Levantine coast in the last week of June or in early July. This year saw the arrival of the swarm quite earlier, in the first week on June ...
USA may ratify UNO Law of the Sea
15 May 2009
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was concluded in 1982 and came into force ... 22 years later in 2004. At present, 157 countries are parties to the Convention. The USA figure among the 22 countries that have signed but have yet to ratify the Convention ...
Souveraineté disputée sur les fonds marins
12 mai 2009 - Adapté de Le Monde [Gaelle Dupont]
Depuis quelques jours, c'est l'embouteillage à la division des océans et du droit de la mer des Nations Unies. Argentine, Brésil, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Nigeria, Russie, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, ... la liste est longue: les Etats se précipitent pour déposer, avant la date butoir du 13 mai, leur demande d'extension des limites du plateau continental ...
Embargo de l'Union Européenne sur les importations de phoque
5 mai 2009
Le Parlement Européen a décidé de fermer ses marchés aux peaux et produits dérivés du mammifère. L'interdiction entrera en vigueur pour la prochaine campagne de chasse commerciale en 2010 ...
Nuclear reactor jeopardized by jellyfish
22 October 2008,
Reuters adapted from David Gregorio
Undesirable mass events of jellyfish are observed more and more frequently and are showing up even in places where they had rarely been seen before. Along with many, well-known undesirable side-effects of jellyfish swarms, these organisms can also clog the water-intake valves of coastal power plants’ reactors, jeopardizing effective cooling ...
Des éléphants de mer comme assistants océanographes en Antarctique
13 août 2008, Le Monde adapted from Pierre Le Hir
La recherche polaire s'est trouvé d'intrépides et infatigables auxiliaires : les éléphants de mer. Durant les hivers 2004 et 2005, sur quatre îles subantarctiques - Kerguelen (France), Géorgie du Sud (Royaume-Uni), Macquarie (Australie) et Shetland du Sud (Etats-Unis) -, 58 éléphants de mer ont été équipés de balises Argos ...
Refroidissement climatique lié à explosion de la biodiversité marine durant l'Ordovicien (- 480 Ma)
25 Juillet 2008, INSU Communiqué de Presse, adapted from Science
Un changement climatique global expliquerait l'explosion de la biodiversité marine il y a 460 Millions d'années. En effet, un refroidissement progressif des océans d'environ 15°C sur une période de 40 millions d'années au cours de l'Ordovicien vient d'être mis en évidence par des chercheurs de Lyon et de Canberra ...
Italy, France push to overturn tuna fishing ban
25 June 2008, European Voice
European Commission keeps ban in place, accusing France and Italy of under-reporting and overfishing.
A sometimes heated meeting of EU fisheries ministers ended yesterday with the European Commission insisting that a ban on the fishing of bluefin tuna would and should remain in place ...
Early closure by the EU of the Bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean
13 June 2008, CIESM News
Regulation 530/2008, published today in the Official Journal of the European Union, announces the closure of the bluefin tuna fishery on June 16 for the purse seine fleets of France, Italy, Cyprus, Malta and Greece ...
Emptied Mediterranean - Sharks nearly gone
11 June 2008, New York Times, adapted from Andrew Revkin
Several ecologically-important shark populations in the Mediterranean Sea have completely collapsed, according to a new study, with numbers of five species now more than 96 percent below what existed two centuries ago. “This loss of top predators could hold serious implications for the entire marine ecosystem, greatly affecting food webs throughout this region,” ...
EU will finance Mediterranean 'de-pollution' of hotspots
14 April 2008, EurActiv Network
Three months ahead of the launch of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's primed ' Union for the Mediterranean ', the Commission has stepped on Paris 's toes by presenting plans to finance pollution reduction in the Mediterranean Sea ...
Dumping garbage from ships will become illegal ... on 1st May 2009
10 April 2008
The Marine Environment Protection Committee of IMO (International Maritime Organization) at its 57th Session adopted, a few days ago, a resolution establishing May 1st, 2009, as the date on which the MARPOL Annex V (Regulations for the Prevention of Pollution by Garbage from Ships) special area regulations shall take effect in the Mediterranean Sea ...
A new organisation will boost implementation of EU integrated maritime policy and Common Fisheries Policy
27 March 2008, adapted from European Commission Press corner
The European Commission has decided on a far-reaching reorganisation of the Directorate-General in charge of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs. The former “DG FISH” becomes the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries and will now be known as DG MARE ...
1ère apparition des coraux sur la Liste rouge de l’UICN
septembre 2007, CIESM News
Pour la première fois, des coraux ont été inscrits sur la Liste rouge de l'UICN. Dix espèces de coraux des îles Galápagos (Equateur) - patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO depuis 1978 ...
Sinking of R/V Thetis south of Sicily
August 2007, CIESM News
On August 4th, on a clear day, about 4 miles south of the coast of Sicily, the Italian Research Vessel “Thetis” was sunk following a collision with the merchant vessel "Heleni" registered in Panama. All 14 people on board, including eight marine biologists, were rapidly rescued - some with serious injuries - from the waters ...
The Aberdeen Declaration, endorsed on 22 June by European Research Institutions and CIESM (view DG position), calls for integrated EU action in the marine domain.
Les coraux rouges placés sous la protection de la CITES
June 2007, CIESM News
(AFP) - Les coraux rouges Corallium ont été placés parmi les espèces protégées de la CITES (Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction), lors de sa Conférence Mondiale qui vient de se réunir à La Haye ...
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