‘Aussies are being sold fake and chips’: Greenpeace investigation slams take-away stores for mislabelling shark species used in their ‘fish’
By Lillian Radulova for Daily Mail Australia
● Eleven of 23 Melbourne fish and chips shops sold overfished school shark
● This is despite them advertising their fillets as gummy shark or flake
● Less than half of the stores were found to be accurately labelling their ‘fish’
● Fillets were DNA tested by the University of Canberra in September 2014
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Daily Mail – Published: 15:24 GMT, 26 March 2015 | Updated: 15:54 GMT, 26 March 2015
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Icelandic whaling: Conservationists split over efficacy of Obama’s sanctions, E.U. protest
By Michael Walsh
Should the U.S. enforce targeted economic sanctions or hope shame will save the endangered fin whales?
Iceland’s whaling industry continues to kill endangered fin whales in violation of international law a year after U.S. President Barack Obama issued diplomatic sanctions to stop the practice.
Marine life conservationists celebrated the administration’s measures at the time, but there’s disagreement over how successful they have been.
Some criticize the diplomatic sanctions as not having “enough teeth” to effect change — as indicated by the 137 fin whales slaughtered last summer — and are pushing for targeted economic sanctions …
Yahoo News – March 26, 2015
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