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MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS The Marshall Islands is experiencing its worst-ever coral bleaching as global warming threatens reefs across the entire northern Pacific, scientists said Monday.
Marine researchers said an El Nino weather pattern had been developing in recent months, raising ocean temperatures and stressing delicate coral reefs.
The worst coral bleaching event ever recorded for the Marshall Islands has been occurring since mid-September, Karl Fellenius, a Majuro-based marine scientist with the University of Hawaii, said.
C. Mark Eakin, manager of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations Coral Reef Watch program, said recent observations showed the problem was widespread across the vast waters of the northern Pacific.
Major bleaching was seen in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, the northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), the Marshall Islands, and Kiribati, he said. Thermal stress levels set new record highs in CNMI and the NWHI and we saw the first widespread bleaching event in the main Hawaiian Islands.
Fellenius said coral bleaching was a naturally occurring phenomenon but not on the scale currently being seen: While bleaching can occur on very hot days in pools of water with little circulation (such as) very low tides on reef flats, it has become a global problem due to greenhouse gas emissions causing elevated temperatures under climate change.
He said sea surface temperatures had been on average half to a full degree Celsius higher than normal for months, adding, This does not seem like a lot but it makes a big difference to corals.
Fellenius said the last major bleaching event was in 1997, when an exceptionally strong El Nino system affected about a quarter of the worlds coral reefs.
He said indications were that the latest episode had affected up to 75 percent of smaller corals and 25 percent of the larger varieties at some sites in the Marshalls. He said the bleached coral was becoming covered with algae, hindering its chances of recovery.
The World Meteorological Organization raised the alarm about rising sea temperatures this month on the sidelines of U.N. climate talks in Lima, saying 2014 was set to be the hottest year on record, consistent with man-made climate change. What is particularly unusual and alarming this year are the high temperatures of vast areas of the ocean surface, WMO chief Michel Jarraud said.
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(Capt. Chris Long of Jolly Mon Charters holds two nice winter chinook. Photo courtesy of Kevin Klein.)
Here is a winter chinook fishing report from San Juan Islands by Kevin Klein with the Puget Sound Anglers Fidalgo-San Juan Islands Chapter:
Blackmouth fishing is pretty darn good in the Islands right now. Everybody seems to be using something different, and catching fish.
Bait, spoons, hootchies, you name it, theyre biting it. That usually means theres a lot of fish swimming around. As long as it looks like a 4-inch herring, itll get bit. We had good luck on the Silver Horde Tailwagger last weekend. Its really become a mainstay in our arsenal. Gotta have the Wagger in the spread!
The 2015 Roche Harbor Salmon Classic is SOLD OUT! Wow, a sell out before Christmas. Coming on the success of the Resurrection Derby, anglers are itchin to get out there and compete for cash. The Roche Derby is the next stop on the Northwest Salmon Derby series. We will see you out there February 5th.
Should be a good one. This year Roche Harbor and Island Boat Rentals are sponsoring two teams who will be taking returning veterans out to fish as part of the Salmon for Soldiers program. Much thanks for supporting our troops.
Tickets are now on sale for the 11th annual Frank Wilson Memorial Blackmouth Derby. Enter at Kings Marine in Friday Harbor. This cool lil local derby runs from February 1st until April 12th. $1000 first prize, and fun included. All proceeds go to San Juan Island Emergency Services.
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Working together to protect Aucklands treasured islands
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Islanders say they have no idea when the vacant nurses post will be filled permanently. Photograph: Keith Heneghan/Phocus
The exposed west coast island of Inishturk faces its first Christmas in decades without medical cover, due to a failure to fill its vacant nursing post.
We are at our wits end, with so many promises that havent been kept, Inishturk community worker Mary Heanue said.
Comhdhil Oilein na hireann, the Irish Islands Federation, has called on the Health Service Executive (HSE) West to reinstate a basic medical service for the community of 58 residents, living 14.5km (9 miles) off the west Mayo coast.
The federation says it is part of a wider issue relating to cutbacks in healthcare for offshore islands, an issue about which it has been seeking an urgent meeting with HSE West for several months.
Inishturk residents have had no daily access to medical care since September 20th of this year, when their nurse of 30 years retired. She had been due to stand down last December (2013), but stayed on at the request of HSE West while a replacement was found.
Since 2009 the island has been afforded no locums to cover the nurses leave.
She had often worked during her time off to ensure her neighbours received medical care, and never wanted to see us wanting, but it is unfair of the HSE to take advantage of this, Ms Heanue said.
We were told that unless we had a pregnant woman, or somebody in dressings or requiring injections,we were not entitled to a locum, Ms Heanue said. The island has had two days of medical cover since September once when a GP visited from Clifden and once when the Clare Island nurse came out for a day, Ms Heanue said.
The community on Inis Orr, Co Galway, has had medical cover reduced since April, the island federation said.
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The Last Greeks of Princess Islands - A Documentray by Greek Reporter
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The restoration of Lagoon of Islands
Hydro Tasmania is progressing an ambitious project to rehabilitate Lagoon of Islands as a wetland, following decommissioning of a dam at that location. This short film tells the story of how...
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"Thermal stress levels set new record highs in CNMI and the NWHI and we saw the first widespread bleaching event in the main Hawaiian Islands."
Mr Fellenius said coral bleaching was a naturally occurring phenomenon but not on the scale currently being seen.
Coral bleaching occurs when the photosynthesising algae on which the reef-building creatures depend for energy disappear. Deprived of these for even a few weeks, the corals die.
"While bleaching can occur on very hot days in pools of water with little circulation [such as] very low tides on reef flats, it has become a global problem due to greenhouse gas emissions causing elevated temperatures under climate change."
He said sea surface temperatures had been on average half to a full degree Celsius higher than normal for months, adding: "This does not seem like a lot but it makes a big difference to corals."
Mr Fellenius said the last major bleaching event was in 1997, when an exceptionally strong El Nino system affected about a quarter of the world's coral reefs.
He said indications were that the latest episode had affected up to 75 per cent of smaller corals and 25 per cent of the larger varieties at some sites in the Marshalls.
He said the bleached coral was becoming covered with algae, hindering its chances of recovery.
The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) raised the alarm about rising sea temperatures this month on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Lima, saying 2014 was set to be the hottest year on record, consistent with man-made climate change.
"What is particularly unusual and alarming this year are the high temperatures of vast areas of the ocean surface," WMO chief Michel Jarraud said.
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Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program will initially provide funding to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency to improve the sustainable use of oceanic fisheries, coastal fisheries, and critical habitats.
PROP will initially provide funding to the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency to improve the sustainable use of oceanic fisheries, coastal fisheries, and the critical habitats on which they depend.
PROP will also protect critical fishery habitats by creating financing mechanisms to fund the conservation of the growing number of protected marine areas in the region, and providing funds to ensure a coordinated regional approach to the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the program.
The program will promote the local implementation of shared regional objectives, together with coordination from the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency. PROP will eventually expand the number of countries involved over its six to 10 year duration, with the potential to involve all 11 eligible Pacific Island Countries.
PROP will be funded through a US$32.97 million in grants and credits from the IDA, the World Banks fund for the poorest countries. An additional US$6.3 million will be provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Trust Fund to the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency.
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