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• Pew Environment Group to Host Press Call On Efforts to Protect Whales, Penguins, Seals and Krill

HOBART, Tasmania, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, October 20 at 11 a.m. EDT, Pew's Antarctic Krill Conservation Project will host a tele-press briefing to discuss the importance and urgency of protecting Antarctica's iconic predators including whales, penguins and seals. From October 25 - November 5, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) will meet in Hobart, Tasmania to consider various measures that would protect krill, a small, shrimp-like crustacean that serves as the foundation of the Southern Ocean ecosystem. Increasing demand for krill puts the entire Antarctic food chain at risk. By adopting precautionary measures to spread out krill fishing over space and time, conducting a new krill stock assessment and requiring offi...

• U.S. Newswire
• October 19, 2010

• Pew Pushes for Protection of Whales, Penguins, Seals and Krill

Better data, more monitoring needed to effectively manage krill fishery in Southern Ocean HOBART, Tasmania, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pew Environment Group's Antarctic Krill Conservation Project (AKCP) urges the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to require scientific observers on board all krill fishing vessels and to intensify efforts at data collection to reduce uncertainties when managing this fishery. The AKCP also calls on CCAMLR to conduct a new krill biomass survey and to implement new measures to protect penguins which rely on the species for food.

• U.S. Newswire
• October 21, 2010

• Proposed Re-Issuances of Ocean Disposal General Permits:

...Station in Antarctica; Proposed Permit. AGENCY: Environmental Protection... a generally northern direction into the Southern. Ocean; it was tracked until the pinger signal was...

• FR, May 09, 2011
• Notices
• Environmental Protection Agency

• March of the Tourists

The hut's latest persona is as a museum, gift shop, and post office, its rooms crowded with visitors spending all manner of currencies on tea towels, T-shirts, and postcards. Much depends on their numbers, including decisions likely to be made about future human visitation here, the outlook for penguins, and, perhaps, a critical data point in the emerging picture of how this unpeopled world sustains us.

... wind, it would be another hot day in Antarctica. But the 20 knots blasting around the shoulders of... range, we hear from Ron Naveen, counting southern giant petrel nests on the other side of the island... that this frozen continent and its frozen-ocean partner to the north have much relevance to our te...

• Mother Jones
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 4, July 2008

• Scientists Lose Contact with 'Happy Feet' Penguin

Scientists lost contact with a wayward emperor penguin that gained celebrity status in New Zealand earlier this year after winding up on one of the country's beaches, more than 3,000 miles from its Antarctic home. Happy Feet" was released back into the icy Southern Ocean about 425 miles south of New Zealand's South Island on Sept. 4.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• September 17, 2011

• World Dateline Briefs

Australia: Whaling CANBERRA -- Australia has announced it will take Japan to the International Court of Justice in a bid to prevent it whaling in the Antarctic Ocean. Environment Minister Peter Garrett and Attorney General Robert McClelland say it underlines the government's "commitment to bring to an end Japan's program of so-called scientific whaling" in the southern seas. They announced the decision to take Australia's important trading partner to the court in The Hague in a joint statement today.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• May 28, 2010

• Warm is the new cold: global warming, oil, UNCLOS Article 76, and how an Arctic Treaty might stop a new Cold War.

...Definition of Oceanic Ridges b. Definition of Submarine Ridges c. Defini...Common Heritage of Mankind B. The Antarctic Treaty System--South Pole Hard Law Protection VII....(23) Conversely, the Arctic's southern counterpart, Antarctica, is protected by the Antar...

• Environmental Law
• Vol. 39 Nbr. 1, January 2009

• Lb Pilot Tells of Up-Close View of Whale Harpooning

LONG BEACH - Chris Aultman says it was one of the most horrific events he has ever seen. On Feb. 6, the 39-year-old Long Beach resident was piloting the helicopter for the eco-warriors Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which fights international whaling, and witnessed a ship from the Japanese whaling fleet hunting an Antarctic minke whale in the Southern Ocean.

• Press Telegram
• August 21, 2009

• In Brief - Scientists Send in Seals for Data

WASHINGTON - Bitter cold and floating sea ice long frustrated scientists seeking to study the Antarctic Ocean in winter. The solution: Recruit seals. The polar regions are expected to be especially sensitive to climate change, but collecting data has been a problem, especially in the wind-whipped Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica.

• The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current)
• August 18, 2008

• Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants:

...Segment of the Southern Rockhopper Penguin. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Serv... the three widely separated regions (Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Patagonia-Atlantic Ocean) in w...Antarctic Polar. Page 9684 . Front to near the Subtropical ...

• FR, February 22, 2011
• Rules
• Fish and Wildlife Service