1. Bumble Bee Tuna CEO Charged with Fixing Prices
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2. Pacific Council Protects Critical Ocean Habitat
In April, the Pacific Fishery Management Council voted to close an area roughly twice the size of Washington State to bottom trawling. Some 140,000 square miles off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington will be protected, including the “sensitive corals, sponges, and rocky reefs in a region known as the Southern California Bight.” For the first time in a fishery management plan, methane seeps are protected as important fish habitat.
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3. Vanuatu First Country to Ban Plastic Straws
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The largest wave ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere was measured off of New Zealand. The 78 foot (23.8 m) wave was measured by a buoy off New Zealand’s Campbell Island in the Southern Ocean on Tuesday. “The ‘eight-storey high’ wave was generated by a deep low pressure system and 65-knot winds, said Meteorological Service of New Zealand senior oceanographer Dr. Tom Durrant. He said that “surfers in California can expect energy from this storm to arrive at their shores in about a week’s time.”
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At Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, Supervisor Katy Tang introduced new legislation that would ban the distribution of plastic straws and some other non-biodegradable odds and ends, in another City Hall drive to clean up San Francisco’s chronic trash problem.
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