Haitian boat capsizes; 113 saved, dozens missing
Forbes
Rescuers pulled 113 survivors from reefs, and police recovered 11 bodies. An estimated 200 people were aboard the boat when it capsized, said Petty Officer 1st Class Jennifer Johnson, a Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami. The Coast Guard was ...
Fish for dinner: Overfishing easing in some areas
AP via Yahoo! Finance
Crabcakes and fish sticks won't be disappearing after all. Two years after a study warned that overfishing could cause a collapse in the world's seafood stocks by 2048, an update says the tide is turning, at least in some areas.
Around Tampa Bay
The Ledger
2At Madeira Beach, mangrove snapper 2-4 pounds "really good'' on artificial reefs at 5 miles out chumming with cut bait, reports Capt. Dane Karcher (727-647-6919). A few keeper red and gag grouper 6 to 10 miles out, but bigger red grouper a...
WEATHER UPDATE
Guam Pacific Daily News
Waves will be powerful and rip currents will be dangerous, especially on west- and southern-facing beaches. Surf should slowly fall on Sunday, but it will still be hazardous until about 6 a.m. on Monday. “Avoid venturing near exposed reefs ...
From pristine reefs to coral wastelands
Honolulu Advertiser
The scientific projections are ominous. If substantial steps aren't taken globally to counter the effects of climate change, reefs in Hawai'i and around the world eventually could become coral wastelands, decimated by increasingly acidic an...
Tim Severin's heaven on earth: the Banda Islands
Daily Telegraph
If you go, sail around the islands, admire the amazing local wildlife, visit a nutmeg plantation and go diving – the islands have the most beautiful reefs, not to mention the clearest waters where you can bathe. Getting there might take ......
Island police keep up search for Haitian survivors
AP via Yahoo! News
Police boats circled an uninhabited island Thursday looking for dozens of Haitian migrants missing from a deadly shipwreck, but rescuers had little hope of finding any survivors as the search entered its fourth day.
Haitian boat capsizes; 113 saved, dozens missing
AP via Yahoo! News
The U.S. Coast Guard used boats, airplanes and a helicopter to search the warm, shallow waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday for some 70 Haitians believed missing after their overloaded sailboat capsized. Rescuers pulled 113 s...
CG keeps looking as Haitian death toll rises - Navy News, news from Iraq - Navy Times
Navy Times
Rescue teams scanned the clear blue waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands Wednesday with fading hopes of finding dozens of Haitian migrants whose sailboat struck a reef and shattered in the waves. Authorities have rescued more than 100 pe...
Dozens lost as Haiti boat sinks
BBC Americas
Coastguard, helicopters and private boats joined the search for survivors from the reefs and waters on Monday. The wreck is thought to have occurred late on Sunday. Dangerous crossing The flimsy boat had been at sea for three days when it a...
River Project Offers New Hope For Oysters, Researchers Say
Washington Post
Scientists say they've created something in a Virginia river that hasn't been seen since the late 1800s: a vast, thriving reef of American oysters, the shellfish that helped create the Chesapeake Bay's ecosystem and then nearly vanished fro...
Boat with Haitians capsizes off Turks and Caicos; 113 saved, dozens ...
Baltimore Sun
Rescuers pulled 113 survivors from reefs, and police recovered 11 bodies. An estimated 200 people were aboard the boat when it capsized, said Petty Officer 1st Class Jennifer Johnson, a Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami. The Coast Guard was ...
World's fisheries at risk of collapse, but recovery is possible: study
AFP via Yahoo! News
The world's fisheries are at risk of collapse, but recovery is possible if governments act to manage commercial fishing, a comprehensive study published Thursday has found.
Hopes dim for missing Haitian shipwreck victims
The Washington Times
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) -- Rescue teams scanned the clear blue waters off the Turks and Caicos Islands Wednesday with fading hopes of finding dozens of Haitian migrants whose sailboat struck a reef and shattered in the waves. ...
Haitians risk tragedy on sea excursions to America
AP via Yahoo! News
The tragedies happen with alarming regularity in the waters near Florida: Haitian immigrants seeking a better life pay hundreds, if not thousands, to crowd onto filthy, rickety boats with little food or water.
