Weekly News from Fyksland
Coverage and translation provided by Vaijskä Radio
Sunday, 20 July, 2003
NIEKOPENHAAG, Jølantä (AP) - Full story...
WASHINGTON D.C., U.S.A Full story...
Monday, 21 July, 2003
KAANSÄ (VKK) - Full story...
Tuesday, 22 July, 2003
Wednesday, 23 July, 2003
NIEKOPENHAAG, Jølantä (VKK) - Full story...
Thursday, 24 July, 2003
'Pinger' plans to save dolphins
BRUSSELS, Belgium (VKK) - The lives of thousands of dolphins, whales and porpoises could be saved due to fishing controls to be unveiled by the European Commission on Thursday. The plan is to extend a current ban on drift nets and introduce audible warning "pinger" devices on trawlers to save dolphins and porpoises -- known scientifically as cetaceans -- which die annually in EU waters after becoming accidentally entangled in fishing nets. EU rules banning the use of drift nets in the Atlantic came into force in 2002. The commission wants EU governments to extend this ban to the Baltic Sea by 2007 and limit the length of drift nets to 2.5 kilometers. Studies in Fyksland show that the central North Sea is another deathtrap for porpoises, with Fyksian trawlers picking up more than 7,300 cetaceans during the peak in 1994. Full story...
Friday, 25 July, 2003
KAANSÄ (VKK) - Full story...
Saturday, 26 July, 2003
NIEKOPENHAAG, Jølan Full story...
