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News Updates

September 2010

9/3/10 Evolving rules in San Juans may change how visitors go whale watching

9/3/10 Researchers Develop Simulation to Better Understand the Effects of Sound on Marine Life

August 2010

8/31/10 Camera paints colorful orca portrait

8/31/10 Hundreds of dolphins make themselves at home in waters of southwest B.C.

8/30/10 Fraser sockeye: Too much bounty?

8/30/10 New treatment plant to stop dumping of raw sewage into Pacific

8/30/10 Blog launched to help solve seal deaths mystery

8/27/10 Harper announces protected area to conserve Belugas

8/27/10 B.C. sockeye salmon boom climbs to 30 million

8/24/10 The Center For Whale Research 2010 Census Results

8/24/10 Tucker the dog sniffs out resident orcas

8/23/10 They're Back: Recent Otter Deaths A Reminder That Great White Sharks Are Patrolling California Waters

8/23/10 Aleutian fishermen competing with Steller sea lion

8/19/10 Unexpected Plenty: Salmon & Steelhead Surge Up Some Northwest Rivers

8/19/10 Survey: California Sea Otter Population Numbers On Decline; 'Sea Otter Health Can Tell Us A Lot'

8/19/10 Rise of the Ratfish in Puget Sound

8/15/10 Hey 'fishbags': Whales are worth seeing -- from a distance

8/15/10 Toxic PFCs Found in Washington Water and Fish

8/15/10 "You're Killing Me": How whales and dolphins sacrifice for national security

8/12/10 Divers capture smiling pilot whale on camera

8/12/10 Photos of New Calf in L Pod!

8/9/10 Activists call for release of orca, Lolita, captured in 1970

8/9/10 Oil spill plugged, but more oiled birds than ever are being found

8/7/10 Sixgill Shark Families Stick Together

8/7/10 Toxic Algae Destroys Shark Brains

8/5/10 Navy plans could affect more marine mammals

8/5/10 New documentary planned on killer whale Luna

8/3/10 Aleutian sea lion decline spurs federal fishing restriction plan

8/3/10 Acidification threatens wide swath of sea life

8/3/10 Study: Blue Whales Align The Pitch Of Their Songs With Extreme Accuracy; 'Always Calling At The Exact Same Pitch'

8/3/10 Elwha River's coming dam removal has scientists flooded with unknowns

8/3/10 Cast Your Vote to Name Four Orca Calves!

July 2010

7/30/10 Warming of Oceans Will Reduce and Rearrange Marine Life

7/30/10 Undersea microphones listen for whales threatened by Gulf oil spill

7/30/10 Sapphire Princess disrupted by whale

7/26/10 Whale 'sense of smell' revealed

7/26/10 Lack of dolphin deaths a marine mystery

7/23/10 CYBER TOOTH

7/23/10 Large blue whale gathering a boon for Monterey tourism

7/23/10 So many sockeye! Dam provides window into record run of salmon

7/21/10 Stench in whale breath might not come from diet

7/21/10 Hundreds of dead penguins dot Brazil's beaches

7/19/10 Some gray whales have different genetics, study suggests -- Makah whaling could be affected

7/19/10 Obama to launch ocean initiative

7/19/10 Cargo ships interfering with whale conversations: study

7/17/10 Flowers, hundreds of mourners and a coffin in moving funeral ceremony for a town's favourite bottlenose dolphin

7/17/10 Thousands celebrate naming of Salish Sea

7/15/10 Debate arises over whales in captivity

7/15/10 Farmed B.C. salmon could soon carry federal organic label

7/13/10 Orcas seen attacking gray whale near Everett

7/13/10 Whale meat restaurants top 100 in Ulsan

7/13/10 Fraser River sockeye certified sustainable

7/11/10 Watching whales pays off

7/11/10 Amazon river dolphins being slaughtered for bait

7/11/10 We may never know how Moko died

7/8/10 Gray whale struggling to survive on Everett beach

7/8/10 $600K Grant to Suquamish Tribe Will Remove Chico Creek Culvert

7/7/10 UCSD Scientists Keeping An Ear On Gulf Oil Spill

7/7/10 Environmentalists to set up trust fund to save dolphins

7/7/10 Dan Haifley, Our Ocean Backyard: Is the gray whale population declining, and why?

7/3/10 Sylvia Earle: Swimming with sharks and oil

7/2/10 'Sea monster' whale fossil unearthed

7/2/10 L-113 is a Female!

June 2010

6/30/10 Oregon salmon rated as 'avoid' on Monterey Bay Aquarium's seafood watch guide

6/30/10 Researchers Ponder Missing Water Layer in Hood Canal

6/30/10 Plastic paradise: Scientists plan to turn Pacific Ocean waste into a floating island

6/30/10 The Grandmother Factor: Why do only humans and whales live long past menopause?

6/26/10 Toxins found in whales bode ill for humans

6/26/10 Whaling commission conference ends in deadlock over hunting, calls for 1 year 'pause' in talks

6/25/10 Ailing killer whale captured off Dutch coast

6/25/10 $525 million plan aims to protect Columbia, Snake River fish

6/25/10 10 of the most endangered whales on Earth

6/23/10 Stranded harbor-seal pup cute, but don't touch

6/23/10 NOAA finds new deep-sea habitat off Olympic Peninsula

6/21/10 Secrecy of talks on whaling compromise condemned

6/21/10 Whales 'can feel and suffer as humans do'

6/21/10 Breeding killer whales key for SeaWorld future, but orca death renews debate

6/13/10 Seal whiskers sense faraway fish

6/13/10 Scientists: Hungry Grey Whales Face A 'Prey Crisis' As Food Sources Dry Up; 'There's Some Kind Of Anthropogenic Driver Involved'

6/13/10 Sea Turtle Finds Lost Camera, Films Itself Swimming

6/10/10 New K Pod Calf Confirmed!

6/10/10 Commission into sockeye salmon stocks releases areas of inquiry

6/10/10 NOAA boosts UW funding for ocean-science research

6/8/10 SeaWorld orca dies while giving birth

6/8/10 Lost Gray Whale Surfaces Again in the Mediterranean

6/8/10 Humpback whales form friendships that last years

6/7/10 Savvy seal jumps aboard whale-watching boat to avoid becoming orcas' lunch

6/7/10 Noisy Offshore Wind Park Scares Off Porpoises

6/4/10 Gray whale sightiing confirmed in Barcelona, Spain

6/4/10 Dying, dead marine wildlife paint dark, morbid picture of Gulf Coast following oil spill

6/1/10 The fishing is fine - in Alaska

6/1/10 Dolphins, sea lions going on guard at Bangor base

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