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Fishing gear can cause slow death of whale
Scientists have observed that fishing lines can cause changes in swimming and diving behavior of whales because they drag the gear along. This dragging can result in slow death of the whale. Scientists used a patient-monitoring device that was
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Pollution Could Affect Tourism in Monterey
Santa Cruz :: CA :: USA | 5 days ago
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Officers are investigating a gang fight the happened in Santa Cruz and ended in Captiola. Officers responded to the area of Leibrandt and Raymond Streets for a large fight.
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Audio: SouthCoast Boys' Initiative Forum
Acushnet :: MA :: USA | 13 days ago
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Complete audio recording of the forum held at the New Bedford Whaling Museum May 8, 2013...Anyone interested in learning more about the establishment of the SouthCoast Boys' Initiative should send email to letters@s-t.com , with "Boys' Initiative" in
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New Bedford meeting to tackle fishing rules rewrite
New Bedford :: MA :: USA | 14 days ago
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A summit meeting of sorts is set for Monday to prepare for this year's reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act that regulates commercial fishing. The two-hour session at the New Bedford Whaling Museum will address a number of issues. It will
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Melville's Pittsfield home gets a makeover
Pittsfield :: MA :: USA | 18 days ago
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Mass. (AP) The Pittsfield home where Herman Melville wrote Moby-Dick'' is getting a period makeover. Workers from Historic Preservation Associates are building a Victorian-style porch on the front of the homestead known as Arrowhead. The building is
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Mitchell and Keating invite fishing community for dialogue
New Bedford :: MA :: USA | 20 days ago
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As the Magnuson-Stevens Act approaches expiration in September and Congress begins to debate what an amended law will look like the nation's top-grossing fishing city will be watching with a keen eye...Rep Bill Keating are opening the dialogue to the
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The charms of Charlevoix
New York City :: NY :: USA | 26 days ago
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April 29, 2013 Thank a catastrophic meteorite crash, 350 million years ago, for giving us Canada's Charlevoix a spellbinding, 35-mile-wide inhabited crater that is unlike any landscape I've seen in the lower 48. From New York by car, it takes roughly
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United Nations court set to hear Australia bid to halt Japan whaling
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 month ago
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Australia will fire the opening salvoes in a legal battle before the United Nations' highest court in June to try to stop Japan's whale hunt in Antarctica. The International Court of Justice ... will hold public hearings in the case concerning
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Aust to tackle Japan whaling at UN court
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 month ago
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United Nations' highest court in June aimed at stopping Japan's whaling research program in Antarctica. "The International Court of Justice ... will hold public hearings in the case concerning whaling in the Antarctic, Australia versus Japan, from
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With museum passes, activists hope to attract residents to city's cultural life
New Bedford :: MA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Buddy Andrade envisions all its diverse communities participating in the city's cultural institutions. And through Neighborhood Days, the Whaling Museum's initiative to offer free admission to city residents, he hopes New Bedford is moving in that
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