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Crocodile steals massive barramundi from NT fisherman at the last possible second
Sometimes the thrill of the chase is the best bit about dropping in a line, but for two Territory fishermen, it was role reversal when they nearly became bait for a monster NT saltie. Darwin anglers Dac and Daniel were fishing at a Top End billabong when one of them hooked onto an "absolute donkey of a barra". Unfortunately for the pair, their excitement was also shared by what looked to be a 4-metre saltwater crocodile watching their endeavours from nearby.
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Near Fish Farms, Lobster Catches Plummet
Lobster fishers catch fewer market-sized lobsters, and see fewer fertile females, in areas close to fish farms in Nova Scotia, according to new research led by Inka Milewski, a research associate at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Lobster fishers working in Port Mouton Bay, Nova Scotia, keep detailed records of when and where they fish and how many lobsters they catch.
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World's top fishing nations to be given millions to protect oceans
Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch major grant for coastal communities to improve the health of oceans
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Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in fishing hut
Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was working alone in a ‘rompong’ when heavy winds snapped its moorings
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'Blood was everywhere': Flying mackerel cuts woman's throat
Belinda Bingham was lying on the floor with blood streaming from her throat when husband Neil turned around from baiting his line. A 10-kilogram, metre-long mackerel had launched itself from the ocean, at a height of more than a metre and a half, and cut her throat. "It sure had some momentum. It just knocked me off my feet. [I] didn't see it coming, didn't see a thing," Mrs Bingham said.
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Of Roe, Rights, and Reconciliation
On the British Columbia coast, the Heiltsuk First Nation asserts its rights to manage its resources, and who has access to them, through the seasonal herring harvest. By Ian Gill.
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'They are taking out a generation of tuna': overfishing causes crisis in Philippines
Raul Gomez is an old man who fishes with five crew on a clipper in the seas known as the coral triangle, and he has spent two months now without taking enough to feed his family. Riding out storms and searing heat in western Pacific waters, the burly, sun-inked Filipino uses a pole and line to reel in yellowfin tuna the size of an adult human. This has been his trade for 40 years, but it is becoming tougher as fisheries in this region – one of the planet’s most important centres of tuna production – face the prospect of total collapse.
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Autonomous drones will help stop illegal fishing in Africa
AI-guided fliers will identify fishing boats venturing into protected waters.
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Why a new fisheries bill is being dubbed the "Empty Oceans Act"
What the farm bill is to terrestrial food production, the fish bill, a.k.a. the Magnuson-Stevens Act, is to the ocean—the law that governs America’s marine fisheries. First passed in 1976 to kick foreign fishing fleets out of American waters, the MSA has evolved into one of the nation’s most effective conservation laws. A reauthorization in 1996 required managers to place all overfished stocks on strict rebuilding timelines, and another in 2006 mandated hard limits on total catches. Those science-based provisions have recovered 44 once-depleted stocks, from the canary rockfish to the barndoor skate.
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How one man died so a whale might live
Humans have spent more than 10 centuries emptying the ocean of some of its most extraordinary animals. Today, a coalition of scientists and fishermen are trying to turn the tide – and learning that conservation is much harder than destruction
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Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing
Mature fish are found deep not because of age, climate, or prey, but because of us.
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Introduce Fishing to your Kids
Fishing is a great family activity that allows each family member to bond and get much closer. Having said that, a toddler as young as two can actually start fishing as long as he/she is accompanied by parents or an adult family member. Here are some of the best ways to introduce fishing to kids.
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Overfishing has turned Mediterranean dolphins into thieves
Dolphins short on prey are resorting to underhand tactics to find a meal – tearing into nets to access the fish inside. Researchers studying interactions between dolphins and fishermen in northern Cyprus found nets were six times more prone to damage when dolphins were in the vicinity. They concluded that the marauding marine mammals were therefore the most likely culprits.
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fish hunting/easy trap
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Fishing Boats 'Going Dark' Raise Suspicion Of Illegal Catches, Report Says
A new report raises concerns that when fishing vessels "go dark" by switching off electronic tracking devices, in many cases they are doing so to mask the taking of illegal catches in protected marine parks and restricted national waters. In the report released Monday by Oceana, an international conservation group, authors Lacey Malarky and Beth Lowell document incidents of fishing vessels that disappear from computer screens as they shut off collision-avoidance beacons near restricted areas, only to have them reappear days or weeks later back in legal fishing grounds.
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Fishing in troubled water between Croatia and Slovenia
The dispute over Piran Bay -- less than seven kilometres (four miles) long and five kilometres wide -- has poisoned ties between Croatia and Slovenia ever since they proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia nearly 27 years ago.
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Top European chefs take electric pulse fishing off the menu
More than 200 top chefs across Europe have pledged to stop sourcing seafood obtained by electric pulse fishing, days before an EU vote that could expand the use of the controversial technique, an ocean advocacy group said Thursday.
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Fishery's 'no Polish' sign taken down
The owner of a fishery which displayed a sign banning Polish and "Eastern bloc" anglers says it has been taken down after his family received threats. Billy Evans of Field Farm Fisheries said the sign went up because he had caught anglers stealing fish. He said he now may also shut the fishery. Polish fisherman Rado Papiewski raised more than £10,000 for a private prosecution to have the sign removed.
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Anglers use ashes of friend as bait to reel in monster 180lbs carp in his honour
Two anglers have honoured their late fisherman friend by turning his ashes into a bait that snared a giant 180lbs catch. Ron Hopper, 64, died from cancer before he could go on a much-anticipated fishing holiday to Thailand with friends Paul Fairbrass and Cliff Dale.
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Fishing Buddies Use Deceased Friends Ashes To Make Boilies & Catch...
Its with great pride that I get to tell this story and I count myself very fortunate to have been a part of this wonderful tale of friendship. In February 2015, a group of fishing buddies (Ron, Cliff & Paul) decided to go fishing in Thailand at a place called Jurassic Mountain Resort & Fishing Park. I was a regular visitor to Jurassic Mountain and happened to be fishing at the same time as the three friends. We all had the same intentions, catching the biggest Carp in the lake, which at the time was a 154lb Siamese Carp.
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